By Justin Jones

ISBN-10: 1107004608

ISBN-13: 9781107004603

ISBN-10: 1316649814

ISBN-13: 9781316649817

curiosity in Shi'a Islam has elevated tremendously in recent times, even supposing Shi'ism within the Indian subcontinent has remained principally underexplored. concentrating on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a quarter that used to be principally less than Shi'a rule until eventually 1856, this ebook lines the background of Indian Shi'ism during the colonial interval towards independence in 1947. Drawing on more than a few new assets, together with non secular writing, polemical literature and clerical biography, it assesses seminal advancements together with the expansion of Shi'a spiritual activism, madrasa schooling, missionary task, ritual innovation and the politicization of the Shi'a neighborhood. due to those major spiritual and social adjustments, a Shi'a sectarian identification built that existed in separation from instead of in interplay with its Sunni opposite numbers. during this approach the painful start of contemporary sectarianism used to be initiated, the implications of that are greatly alive in South Asia today.

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