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Informationen zum Autor Yoginder Sikand has completed his post-doctoral work on 'Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations in Contemporary India' at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World! Leiden! the Netherlands. He has written several articles on Islam and Muslims in contemporary India and has previously published Sacred Spaces: Exploring Traditions of Shared Faith in India (Penguin! 2003) and Muslims in India since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations (Routledge Curzon! 2004). He is currently a freelance researcher based in Bangalore. Klappentext For instance! in the decades leading to India's independence! the Deobandis! representing an extreme form of religious conservatism! insisted on Hindu - Muslim amity and a joint struggle for a free and united India. It is this integrated view of madrasas and a more liberal and open understanding of Islam! and indeed of all faiths! which Yoginder Sikand seeks to promote - for he believes this is one of the principal duties confronting committed believers if we have to learn to live together despite our differences.
