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Islamic and Islamicate legacies from the millennium of Muslim presence in South Asia before English colonialism have never been more imperilled than today. Modern nationalisms in the region have transformed and threatened public memories of Islamicate legacies from pre-colonial India and have impeded public access to serious scholarship on them. This course aims to help you to authoritatively answer four questions relevant to these legacies today: what were the beginnings of Muslim political power in India? What did it mean to convert to Islam before English colonialism? What can we accurately say about Muslim interactions with India’s non-Muslim majority during the approximately thousand years of Muslim presence in pre-colonial India? And, given the abiding popular association of South Asian Islam with certain genres of poetry (e.g. ghazal), painting (e.g. miniature) and architecture (e.g. mosque, tomb, tomb garden), what have been Islamicate aesthetic legacies in the subcontinent?
ISLAM IN INDIA DURING THE MUGHAL DYNASTY TO THE ERA OF BRITISH RULE
3rd Aicollim UIN Maliki, 2021
During the Middle Ages, Islamic rule was concentrated in three prominent kingdoms, the Ottoman Dynasty in Turkey, the Safavid Dynasty in Persia and the Mughal Dynasty in India. This paper will explore the history of Islam that developed in India in three periods, first from the period before the Mughal Empire came to power, the second when the Mughals ruled India and the third when British imperialism began to dominate India. This research is carried out using the historical writing method (historiography) on literature sources relevant to the theme of the study. The stage of this research is to collect data (heuristics) that support the study of the development of Islam in India from 705 to 1947 AD. The next stage is source criticism by sorting out the data that has authenticity and credibility that are directly related to the research as well as data processing and interpretation to narrate history of Islam in India during these three periods. The results of this study found that Islam developed rapidly in India when the religious conditions of the people competed with each other between Hindus and Buddhists which weakened their influence at that time. When the Mughals came to power, Islam grew by applying Islamic teachings and high values of tolerance even though the Muslim population was still a minority compared to Hindu-Buddhist. When Britain entered India, the condition of Islamic government continued to weaken, including the weak of leadership after the Aurangzeb era, the struggle for power between regional Muslim leaders at the central level and the emergence of separatist movements from Hindu groups in several areas to facilitate the British invasion of India. Keywords: Islam, Dynasty, Mughal.
Islam in the Indian Subcontinent
Die Welt des Islams, 1982
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Paradigm Shift of Muslim Thought in the 18th and 19th Century in Indian Subcontinent
Research paper , 2020
The contact between Islam and Indian Subcontinent started in the South of India (Deccan), when Arab traders spread the message of Islam there. With the passage of time two mighty Muslim empires-Delhi Sultanate and Mughals ruled Indian Subcontinent from 1206 to 1857. The weak succession of later Mughals reached to the point that the local and external powers gained their ground in the Indian Subcontinent. Consequently, the Muslim thinkers emerged in order to rejuvenate the Muslim political thought and its legacy. They laid more emphasis on Islamic political order and strived for the same. However, the event of 1857 changed the mind of Indian Muslims who laid more stress on the development with regard to the education, technology, economy and the preservation of beliefs and culture of Indian Subcontinent Muslims. In this connection the paper is a humble and preliminary effort to highlight the paradigm shift of the thought of Indian Subcontinent Muslims in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
CONVERSION OR REVERSION? A REVIEW OF MEDIEVAL INDIA'S ISLAMIC TRANSFORMATION
Research Article, 2021
The paper aims to explore, analyze and investigate the relation between the Sufi shrines and religious transformation of medieval India as conversion or reversion. The religious conversion of South Asia particularly the Indian subcontinent has been associated with agricultural economy by Richard M. Eaton. For Eaton it was the agrarian economy which motivated or influenced the regional population of Multan and Pakpattan to transform religiously. Diego Abenante argued against Eaton's idea about Islam as the religion of plough with the facts about the Multan region revealing agricultural development much later than the religious transformation of the local population. Through studying Indian Islam as a social reflection (as per Emile Durkheim's theory) this paper tries to analyze the religious transformation of Medieval India under the theoretical model of Al-fiÏrah by Ibn-i-Khaldun. Al-fiÏrah (reversion or self-amendment) is a five step process including: (a) Umranic (social) association with community, (b) Cooperation or support of the community, (c) Communication through soft skills like language etc., (d) Competition or prevention between communities, and (e) Self amendment or Reversion. It was not the agrarian economy but the vernacularization of Islam under the Sufi shrines which made Islam less Brahmanized for the local people and allowed them to adopt it firstly according to their convenience and later on adapt according to the religion's limits. To explain the course of religious reversion of medieval India, analytical and descriptive method has been used.
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Islam in India: ISLA 420 (Undergraduate course syllabus)
2019
Course description: Islam’s legacy in pre-colonial South Asia has never been more in question than it is today. Modern nationalisms in the region have altered, in some cases beyond recognition, the memories of Islam’s millennial legacy in India. This course aims to equip you to authoritatively answer four sets of salient contemporary questions concerning this legacy: what were the beginnings of Muslim political power in India? What did it mean to convert to Islam before English colonialism? What can we accurately say about Muslim social relations with India’s non-Muslim majority during the nearly thousand years of Muslim presence in pre-colonial India? And, given the abiding popular association of South Asian Islam with certain genres of poetry (e.g. ghazal), painting (e.g. miniature) and architecture (e.g. mosque), what have been Islam’s aesthetic legacies in the region?