Beyond Turk and Hindu : Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia
Contents: Introduction/David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence. I. Literary genres, architectural forms, and identities : 1. Alternate structures of authority: Satya Pir on the frontiers of Bengal/Tony K. Stewart. 2. Beyond Turk and Hindu: crossing the boundaries in Indo-Muslim romance/Christopher Shackle. 3. Religious vocabulary and regional identity: a study of the Tamil Cirappuranam/Vasudha Narayanan. 4. Admiring the works of the ancients: the Ellora temples as viewed by Indo-Muslim authors/Carl W. Ernst. 5. Mapping Hindu-Muslim identities through the architecture of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur/Catherine B. Asher. II. Sufism, biographies, and religious dissent : 6. Indo-Persian Tazkiras as memorative communications/Marcia K. Hermansen and Bruce B. Lawrence. 7. The "Naqshbandi Reaction" reconsidered/David W. Damrel. 8. Real men and false men at the court of Akbar: the Majalis of Shaykh Mustafa Gujarati/Derryl N. MacLean. III. The state, patronage, and political order : 9. Shari’a and governance in the Indo-Islamic context/Muzaffar Alam. 10. Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states/Richard M. Eaton. 11. The story of Prataparudra: Hindu historiography on the Deccan frontier/Cynthia Talbot. 12. Harihara, Bukka and the Sultan: the Delhi Sultanate in the political imagination of Vijayanagara/Phillip B. Wagoner. 13. Maratha patronage of Muslim institutions in Burhanpur and Khandesh/Stewart Gordon. Glossary. Index.
"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 Islamicat world views overlap and often converge in the premodern history of South Asia.
"The term Islamicate refers to the broad expanse of Africa and Asia influenced by Muslim rulers but not restricted to the practice of Islam as a religion, while the term Indic evokes the breadth of premodern South Asian norms beyond Hindu doctrine or practice. Both Islamic and Indic suggest a repertoire of language and behavior, knowledge and power, that define expansive cosmologies of human existence. Neither term denotes simply bounded groups self-defined as Muslim or Hindu. This collection stresses the constant interplay and overlap between Islamicate and Indic world views, rather than the Muslim-Hindu conflicts which many take to be symptomatic of all life in the subcontinent." (jacket)
