1st Edition
Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas Conceptualizing the Global Ummah
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Language Abbreviations
1. Diversity, Continuity, and Disjuncture: Approaching Multivocal Perspectives on Being Muslim in the Himalaya
Jacqueline H. Fewkes and Megan Adamson Sijapati
2. Topiwalla Jinn and the Past-Times of Violence in Kashmir
Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
3. Everyday Religiosity and Extraordinary Experiences: Nepali Muslim Narratives of Hajj
Megan Adamson Sijapati
4. Portrait of an Indian Freedom Fighter: Munshi Abdul Sattar
Abdul Nasir Khan
5. Land of the Ungoverned: On the Historiography of Lawlessness at the Frontier of Empire
Jonah Steinberg
6. Perspectives: A Photo Essay
Jacqueline H. Fewkes and Megan Adamson Sijapati
7. "When a Woman is Educated in Islam": Conversations with Alima of Ladakh
Jacqueline H. Fewkes
8. Hindu Shopkeepers, Qur'anic Verses: Intersecting Practices Between Muslims and Hindus of Nepal
Mohd Ayub
9. The Social and Political Life of a Relic: The Episode of the Moi-e-Muqaddas Theft in Kashmir, 1963–1964
Idrees Kanth
10. "Himalayan Ummah" as a Meeting Point Between Various Islamic Cultures: The Case of Chinese Muslim Community Trading Interactions in Amdo
Marie-Paule Hille
11. Messy Narratives of Belonging: Hijrat and the Khache
Anisa Bhutia
Biography
Jacqueline H. Fewkes is Professor of Anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, USA. She is also the author of Trade and Contemporary Society Along the Silk Road (Routledge, 2008) and Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses (2019).
Megan Adamson Sijapati is Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College, USA. She is also the author of Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya (Routledge, 2016).
