1st Edition
Indian Muslims and Citizenship Spaces for Jihād in Everyday Life
By Julten Abdelhalim
Copyright 2016
224 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Through the creation of post-colonial citizenship, India adopted a hybridisation of specific secular and western conception of citizenship. In this democratic framework, Indian Muslims are observed on how they make use of the spaces and channels to accommodate their Islamic identity within a secular one.
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1. Introduction 2. The quest for a community versus composite nationalism 3. The life-space context and hegemonic discourses 4. North Indian Muslim youth and everyday jihād 5. Argumentative jihad and Muslim women in Kerala 6. Operationalising the sense of citizenship: from Delhi to Kerala 7. Conclusion
Biography
Julten Abdelhalim obtained her PhD from Heidelberg University, Germany, and is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Cairo University, Egypt. She is also a post-doctoral fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
