Jinnealogy - Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi

Anand Vivek Taneja is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

List of contents

Introduction: Walking Away from the Theater of History

1. Jinnealogy: Archival Amnesia and Islamic Theology in Post-Partition Delhi

2. Saintly Visions: The Ethics of Elsewhen

3. Strange(r)ness

4. Desiring Women

5. Translation

6. Stones, Snakes, and Saints: Remembering the Vanished Sacred Geographies of Delhi

7. The Shifting Enchantments of Ruins and Laws in Delhi

Conclusion: Remnants of Despair; Traces of Hope

About the author

Anand Vivek Taneja is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

Product details

• Authors: Taneja, Anand Vivek Taneja
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781503601796
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0179-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: South Asia in Motion; South Asia in Motion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology