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Governing Islam
Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia
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Artikel-Nr:
9781316626283
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
21.06.2018
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Julia Stephens
Gewicht:
392 g
Format:
226x151x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Julia Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her research and teaching span the fields of modern South Asian history, law, Islam, colonialism, and gender. Her writings have appeared in History Workshop Journal, Law and History Review, Modern Asian Studies, and the Journal of British History.
Stephens argues that encounters between Islam and British colonial rule in South Asia were fundamental to the evolution of modern secularism.
List of maps and figures; Acknowledgments; Note on translation, transliteration, and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Forging secular legal governance; 2. Personal law and the problem of marital property; 3. Taming custom; 4. Ritual and the authority of reason; 5. Pathologizing Muslim sentiment; 6. Islamic economy - a forgone alternative; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.