Overview
How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south Indian state of Kerala. What unites Muslims of different Sunni groups also divides them and incites polemicsEDIslam as a shared system of knowledge and practices, bonds of kinship and other social relations, and the common condition of being a beleaguered religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy. Diverging from works that have focused on how Islamic practices like ritual prayers facilitate the fashioning of theologically grounded pious selves, the book argues that intra-Muslim polemics marginalize theology and have little to do with cultivating piety. Instead, polemics constitute inter- and intra-religious socialities, enable Muslims to articulate their connections to India and other imaginaries, and produce Islam as a public religion in a secular nation-state.
Full Product Details
Author: Nandagopal R. Menon (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Münster, Germany)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780198903321
ISBN 10: 0198903324
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 10 July 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Going against the grain of the theological and ethical turns in the anthropology of Islam, Nandagopal R. Menon provides a unique and pathbreaking account of religious polemics. This is an outstanding contribution to the analysis of public religion in the contemporary world. * Patrick Eisenlohr, University of G¨ottingen * This is a tightly argued and confidently written book which explores in a novel and original fashion some of the central issues which have animated debates concerning contemporary Islam ... It would be hard to find any book on Kerala Islam which can compete with it in ethnographic or analytical terms. * Filippo Osella, University of Sussex *
"Going against the grain of the theological and ethical turns in the anthropology of Islam, Nandagopal R. Menon provides a unique and pathbreaking account of religious polemics. This is an outstanding contribution to the analysis of public religion in the contemporary world. * Patrick Eisenlohr, University of G""ottingen * This is a tightly argued and confidently written book which explores in a novel and original fashion some of the central issues which have animated debates concerning contemporary Islam ... It would be hard to find any book on Kerala Islam which can compete with it in ethnographic or analytical terms. * Filippo Osella, University of Sussex *"
Going against the grain of the theological and ethical turns in the anthropology of Islam, Nandagopal R. Menon provides a unique and pathbreaking account of religious polemics. This is an outstanding contribution to the analysis of public religion in the contemporary world. * Patrick Eisenlohr, University of Göttingen * This is a tightly argued and confidently written book which explores in a novel and original fashion some of the central issues which have animated debates concerning contemporary Islam ... It would be hard to find any book on Kerala Islam which can compete with it in ethnographic or analytical terms. * Filippo Osella, University of Sussex *
Author Information
"Nandagopal R. Menon is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence ""Religion and Politics"", University of Münster, Germany."
