Perilous Intimacies - Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire

SherAli Tareen explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

List of contents

Foreword, by Faisal Devji
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Promise and Peril of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
1. Translating the “Other”: Early Modern Muslim Understandings of Hinduism
2. Deciding the “True” God: Miracle Wars and Interreligious Polemics
3. Friendship and Sovereign Fantasies
4. The Cow and the Caliphate
5. The Contagion of Imitation: A Select Genealogy
6. The Aligarh-Deoband Divide: Competing Rationalities of Reform in Muslim South Asia
Epilogue
Appendix: Suggestions and Discussion Questions for Teaching This Book
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

SherAli Tareen is associate professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (2020).

Faisal Devji is professor of Indian history and fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where he is also the director of the Asian Studies Centre.

Summary

SherAli Tareen explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: SherAli Tareen
• Assisted by: Faisal Devji (Foreword), Devji Faisal (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231210300
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21030-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, Religion, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, Theology, RELIGION / Hinduism / Theology, Religion & politics, Hinduism, Asian History, Islamic Theology, Religion and Politics, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General