1st Edition
Islamic Minorities of South Asia An Ethnographic Account
Introduction: Islam in South Asia and the Idea of “Lived Islam”
1 Contemporary Shades of Islam in South Asia
2 A Brief Socio-religious History of the Shias
3 Development of Shiaism in Indian Subcontinent
4 Mourning (Azadaari) and Martyrdom: The Defining Feature of Shia Identity
5 Network of Social Relationships: Caste, Family, Kinship, and Marriage
6 Economic and Political Life
7 Shia Women: Role Models and Changing Social Status
8 Impact of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Revolution on the Shias of South Asia
9 Shia Festivals
10 Shias of Lucknow, Hyderabad, and Jammu and Kashmir
11 Fratricidal War: Islam’s Existential Crisis
12 From Ijtihad to Ismah: Some Concepts in “Shia Islam”
13 Shia Communities in Pakistan
14 Ahmadi Community in Pakistan and its Persecution
Ismailism and Ismaili Communities
15 The Bohra
16 The Khoja
Biography
Nadeem Hasnain is a social scientist with a broad range of interests. He is a former Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lucknow, India, Fulbright “Scholar in Residence,” and Visiting Professor in the U.S. and Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
