Table of Contents
Introduction
Nasir Raza Khan
Syncretic Traditions: Sufism and Bhakti in Indian History
1. Piety, Impiety and Islam: Muslim Religious Practice in Eighteenth Century Shahjahanabad
Rohma Javed Rashid
2. The Khwaja’s Creed: Gharib Nawaz and Propagation of Sufi Thought
Babli Parveen
3. Sufi and Bhakti Tradition: Corresponding and Divergent Trends
Akhlaque Ahmad Ahan
4. Pluralism in Medieval Islamic Heritage: A Study of Sufi Ethos of Kashmir
G. N. Khaki
5. Sufi Contributions to the Intellectual Culture of Islam in India: Awarif-al-Ma’arif and Early Sufi Writings
Mohammad Shaheer Siddiqui
Islam and the State: History, Religion and Identity
6. Mughal Identity: Central Asian or Indian
Tasneem Suhrawardy
7. Cultural, Literary and Artistic world of Indo-Central Asia
Gulfishan Khan
8. Looking Through European Eyes: Mughal State and Religious Freedom as Gleaned from the European Travellers’ Accounts of the Seventeenth Century
Nishat Manzar
9. Contesting The Authority of The Mughal Emperor: Abdul Qadir Badauni’s Attitude Towards Kingship
Ikramul Haque
10. Masjids, 'Community Life' and Resistance in Colonial India: A Case Study of Masjid-e Jahan Numa at Shahjahanabad up to A.D 1870s.
Sadia Aziz
Intellectual Movements and Contemporary Perspectives: Islam in the Modern Age
11. Drawing Parallel with 19th Century Muslim Movements in India with Reform Movements Across Muslim Weltanschauung: An Analysis of Syed Ahmad’s Work
M. Waseem Raja
12. Maktubat-e Syed Ahmad Khan and His Agenda of Social and Educational Reform
Parwez Nazir
13. Sir Syed’s Aligarh Movement and Muslim Women Discourses
Naiyer Azam
14. Shi’i in India: A Minority within the Minority
Sayyad Mohd. Afzal
15. Pan-Islamism and Khilafat Movement: Understanding Muslim Minds in Colonial Perspectives
Hassan Imam
16. Contemporary Islam: A Realistic Assessment of the Current Dynamics and Progressive Strategies for the Future
Sultan Shahin
Bibliography
Index