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Zusatztext Haroon’s book will undoubtedly be of lively interest to scholars of Muslims in South Asia as well as graduate students of South Asian Muslim history. Informationen zum Autor Sana Haroon is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. She is the author of Fr ontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afhgan Borderland. Klappentext In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship. Their efforts failed as the ideals they presented flew in the face of colonial secularism. This book looks at the legal history of Muslim endowments and the intellectual and social history of sectarian identities, demonstrating how these topics are interconnected in ways that affected the everyday lives of mosque congregants across North India. Through the use of legal records, archives and multiple case studies Sana Haroon ties a series of narrative threads stretching across multiple regions in Colonial South Asia. Vorwort A social history of the mosques of colonial South Asia, this book uses legal documents to chart the changing role of mosques in society from 1882 to 1947 Zusammenfassung In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship. Their efforts failed as the ideals they presented flew in the face of colonial secularism. This book looks at the legal history of Muslim endowments and the intellectual and social history of sectarian identities, demonstrating how these topics are interconnected in ways that affected the everyday lives of mosque congregants across North India. Through the use of legal records, archives and multiple case studies Sana Haroon ties a series of narrative threads stretching across multiple regions in Colonial South Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Note on TransliterationAcknowledgements1. Tajpur, Bihar, 1891: Leadership in Congregational Prayer2. Rangoon, 1916: Muslim Diversity and Custodial Control of Instruction in the Mosque3. Aurangabad and Kanpur U.P., 1924: The Magistrate’s Control of the Mosque Perimeter4. Lahore, 1940: Government Control over the Land Record5. Kora Jahanabad, U.P., 1947: The Affirmation of General Rights in Waqfs by Expert Muslims AfterwordBibliography...
