Muslims communities of South Asia: culture and society (Record no. 4296)

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International Standard Book Number 706904621
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Classification number 305.6971054 Mus
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Personal name Madan, T.N. (ed.)
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Title Muslims communities of South Asia: culture and society
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Edition statement culture and society
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Vikas Publishing House
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1976
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Extent 183p.
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Summary, etc. There is a growing realization that one of the glaring gaps in the sociology<br/>of South Asia has been the scant attention which sociologists and social<br/>anthropologists have paid to the study of Muslim communities. This is<br/>perhaps particularly true of India. Students of comparative religion and<br/>historians have of course been very active and for long, but the very excel-<br/>lence of their work has been a long-standing challenge to sociologists to enter<br/>the field and provide new perspectives. The task that has awaited them has<br/>been the unravelling and interpretation of the encounter between the great<br/>classical tradition of Islam and the local cultures of Asia. What makes this<br/>task particularly important and interesting is the fact that in some of the<br/>countries of the region (namely India, Nepal and Sri Lanka) the local cul-<br/>tural tradition, whether Buddhism or Hinduism, has been dominant in<br/>politics as well as in culture. In the other countries, Bangladesh and Pakistan,<br/>the Islamic way of life has a distinctive character which sets them apart in<br/>some ways from the Muslim societies of South-East Asia or West Asia. It<br/>follows that while the Muslims of all these countries are of course part and<br/>parcel of the universal Islamic brotherhood, they are also locally rooted in<br/>historical cultures.<br/>Conscious of the importance of this undertaking, the editors of Contributions<br/>to Indian Sociology (New Series) decided to devote a whole volume of the<br/>periodical (VI, 1972) to the subject of “Muslim communities of South Asia :<br/>culture and society”. The general theme that was proposed to the contributors<br/>(who included three Indians, two Americans, one Frenchman, one Pakistani,<br/>and one Sinhalese) was that of identity formation: What does it mean to be a<br/>Muslim? While most of the contributors addressed themselves directly to<br/>this question, the others did so only indirectly. The outcome, the editors<br/>thought, was altogether very satisfactory, not because any issues had been<br/>resolved—that never was the intention—but because important questions,<br/>both substantive and methodological, had been posed. From whatever res-<br/>ponses we received, it was obvious that our readers thought that the<br/>papers<br/>contained many useful insights and provocative ideas.<br/>Since the journal reaches only a limited readership, consisting of the<br/>subscribers, and in view of the many inquiries received by us, the editors<br/>and the publishers have decided to bring out the issue in a limited hard-<br/>cover edition. It is thus hoped that this collection of exploratory papers will<br/>reach a wider readership.
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