Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life

1.      Islam and Modernity in South Asia | 1

MUHAMMAD KHALID MASUD

2.      Islam and Democracy in India: From Savile Row to Jyotiba Phule Park | 18

BARBARA D. METCALF

3.      Imagining Religion: Portraits of Islamic Consciousness in Pakistan | 42

RIAZ HASSAN

4.      The Challenges of Diversity: ‘Casting’ Muslim Communities in South India | 64

TORSTEN TSCHACHER

5.      Matrilocal Marriage and Women’s Property among the Moors of Sri Lanka | 87

DENNIS B. MCGILVRAY

6.      The Making of a Diasporic Muslim Family in East Africa | 116

SALIM LAKHA

7.      The Ismaili Conciliation and Arbitration Boards in India: A Model of Community Justice? | 141

ARIF A. JAMAL

8.      ‘Ilm and the Individual: Religious Education and Religious Ideas in Pakistan | 161

MATTHEW J. NELSON

9.      Darul Uloom Deoband’s Approach to Social Issues: Image, Reality, and Perception | 181

TABEREZ AHMED NEYAZI

10.  ‘Being Muslim’ in Contemporary India: Nation, Identity, and Rights | 201

TANWEER FAZAL

11.  Transnational Networks, Political Islam, and the Concept of Ummah in Bangladesh | 224

MUBASHAR HASAN

12.  Muslim Aspirations in Bangladesh: Looking Back and Redrawing Boundaries | 249

SAMIA HUQ

13.  Media in Pakistan: Ideology, Indoctrination, Intimidation | 269

KHALED AHMED

14.  Kafka in India: Terrorism, Media, Muslims | 289

IRFAN AHMAD

15.  A Million Salutes: India’s Mohammedan Sporting Club | 330

RONOJOY SEN