Beyond Turk and Hindu Contributor(s): Gilmartin, David (Editor), Lawrence, Bruce B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813024870 ISBN-13: 9780813024875 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Religion | Islam - General - Religion | Hinduism - General |
Dewey: 297.284 |
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.34" W x 9.02" (1.33 lbs) 384 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian - Religious Orientation - Hindu - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: " Sets] the stage for a rewriting of nearly a thousand years of history to create new understandings of the nature of cultural encounters. . . . The volume breaks free from the polemics of present-day politics and historicist distortions that have seeped into most standard texts."--David Lelyveld, Cornell University 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 Islamicate world views overlap and often converge in the premodern history of South Asia. Contents Part 1: Literary Genres, Architectural Forms, and Identities
Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of Religion at Duke University, is the author of Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence and Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age, which received the 1990 prize for excellence in religious studies awarded by the American Academy of Religion. |