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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2011
      24 October 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511791505
      9781107004603
      9781316649817
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791505
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 304 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 304 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (18)
      Subjects:
      Islam, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Religion
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (18)
    Subjects:
    Islam, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Religion
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    Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, polemical literature and clerical biography, it assesses seminal developments including the growth of Shi'a religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation and the politicization of the Shi'a community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shi'a sectarian identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of which are very much alive in South Asia today.

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