Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia

by David Gilmartin (Editor), Bruce B. Lawrence (Editor)

"[Sets] the stage for a rewriting of nearly a thousand years of history to create new understandings of the nature of cultural encounters. . . . The volume breaks free from the polemics of present-day politics and historicist distortions that have seeped into most standard texts."--David Lelyveld, Cornell University This collection challenges the popular presumption that Muslims and Hindus are irreconcilably different groups, inevitably conflicting with each other. Invoking a new vocabulary that depicts a neglected substratum of Muslim-Hindu commonality, the contributors demonstrate how Indic and Islamicate world views overlap and often converge in the premodern history of South Asia. Contents Part 1: Literary Genres, Architectural Forms, and Identities
1. Alternate Structures of Satya Pir on the Frontiers of Bengal, by Tony K. Stewart
2. Beyond Turk and Crossing the Boundaries in Indo-Muslim Romance, by Christopher Shackle
3. Religious Vocabulary and Regional A Study of the Tamil Cirappuranam , by Vasudha Narayanan
4. Admiring the Works of the The Ellora Temples as Viewed by Indo-Muslim Authors, by Carl W. Ernst
5. Mapping Hindu-Muslim Identities through the Architecture
of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur, by Catherine B. Asher
Part 2: Sufism, Biographies, and Religious Dissent
6. Indo-Persian Tazkiras as Memorative Communications, by Marcia K. Hermansen and Bruce B. Lawrence
7. The "Naqshbandi Reaction" Reconsidered, by David W. Damrel
8. Real Men and False Men at the Court of The Majalis of Shaykh Mustafa Gujarati, by Derryl N. MacLean
Part 3: The State, Patronage, and Political Order
9. Sharia and Governance in Indo-Islamic Context, by Muzaffar Alam 
10. Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States, by Richard M. Eaton 
11. The Story of Hindu Historiography on the Deccan Frontier, by Cynthia Talbot
12. Harihara, Bukka, and the The Delhi Sultanate in the Political Imagination of Vijayanagara, by Phillip B. Wagoner
13.  Maratha Patronage of Muslim Institutions in Burhanpur and Khandesh, by Stewart Gordon
David Gilmartin, professor of history at North Carolina State University, is the author of Empire and Punjab and the Making of Pakistan . Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of Religion at Duke University, is the author of Shattering the Islam Beyond Violence and Defenders of The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age , which received the 1990 prize for excellence in religious studies awarded by the American Academy of Religion.

Genres: India, Religion, Politics, Nonfiction, Academia, Islam, History

384 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 2000

About the author

David Gilmartin studies modern South Asian history. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in History from the University of California--Berkeley. He has conducted research in India and Pakistan.

Gilmartin's research interest focus on the intersections between the history of British imperialism in South Asia and the development of modern politics and forms of rule. His first book (Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan) focused on the relationship between British imperial rule and the creation of Pakistan at the time of India's independence from Britain in 1947. More recent research projects have focused on the connections between irrigation-based environmental transformations (in the Indus basin) and modern politics, and on the legal history of India's electoral institutions as they have evolved from its colonial past.