Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History

Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History
Author: Jamal Malik
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004118027

The reciprocal relationship between colonialists and the colonised people of India, during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860, provides fascinating study material. This edited volume explores cultural colonialism by focussing on the ambivalent processes of reciprocal perceptions.

The Garden of the Hadith Scholars

The Garden of the Hadith Scholars
Author: Abd al-Aziz Ad-Dihlawi
Publisher: Turath Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1915265045

Bustan al-Muhadditheen is a well known anthology of Hadith sciences, major books of Hadith, and Muhadditheen. Written in Persian in the early nineteenth century by Shah ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Dihlawi (1745-1822), it has been extremely popular among scholars of Hadith in the Indian-Subcontinent ever since. It surpasses other books written on the same subject in Arabic, Persian, and other languages.

Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context

Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context
Author: M. Reza Pirbhai
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004177582

Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically legalistic and Muslims as uniformly transgressive when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresentations of pre-colonial Muslim norms and undue emphasis on colonial reforms alone when charting the course to post-coloniality. This book presents and challenges staple perspectives with a comprehensive reinterpretation of doctrinal sources, literary expressions and colonial records spanning the period from the reign of the 'Great Mughals' to end of the 'British Raj' (1526-1947). The result is an alternative vision of this transformative period in South Asian history, and an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly.

The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
Author: Sheila Canby
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300194544

"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.

The Bukharans

The Bukharans
Author: Audrey Burton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136788611

This is an in-depth study of the people of Bukhara and their relations with settled peoples and nomads, from Muscovy to China, and Iran to India. By using lesserknown, or hitherto untapped sources, it corrects long-held misapprehensions fostered by historians of hostile states and champions of the Timurid dynasty. Far from being afraid of their powerful Safawid and Mughal counterparts, the Uzbeg rulers of Bukhara caused them much apprehension and even influenced their foreign policies. 'Abbas I concluded a humiliating peace with Turkey because he wanted to recover Khurasan from 'Abdallah II, Akbar could not risk leaving Punjab during 'Abdallah's reign, Safawid and Mughal attempts at conquering the khanate failed dismally. The book deals fully with dynastic, internal and external problems, trade routes, coinage policies and the khans' attempts to encourage trade.

Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective

Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective
Author: Robert L. Canfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521522915

The first book-length study to examine Turko-Persian culture as an entity.

Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition

Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition
Author: Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780941532600

This book offers an analysis byWestern Muslim scholars of the key reasons behind the dangerous breaksown in understanding between Islam and the West.