Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 467 g
Nation, Islam and Literature of the Bengali Muslims
Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 467 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
ISBN: 978-1-032-19543-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Analysing an extensive range of texts and publications across multiple genres, formats and literary lineages, Reclaiming Karbala studies the emergence and formation of a viable Muslim identity in Bengal over the late-19th century through the 1940s. Beginning with an explanation of the tenets of the battle of Karbala, this multi-layered study explores what it means to be Muslim, as well as the nuanced relationship between religion, linguistic identity and literary modernity that marks both Bengaliness and Muslimness in the region.This book is an intervention into the literature on regional Islam in Bengal, offering a complex perspective on the polemic on religion and language in the formation of a jatiya Bengali Muslim identity in a multilingual context. This book, by placing this polemic in the context of intra-Islamic reformist conflict, shows how all these rival reformist groups unanimously negated the Karbala-centric commemorative ritual of Muharram and Shi‘i intercessory piety to secure a pro-Caliphate sensibility as the core value of the Bengali Muslim public sphere.
Zielgruppe
Academic and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sunniten, Alsalaf
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur