Author:
Robinson, Francis, author.
ImprintAlbany : SUNY Press, [2020]
Imprint2020
Descriptionxix, 397 pages ; 23 cm
Note:First published by Permanent Black, Delhi, India [2019].
Note:The Islamic world in the age of western dominance -- Global history from an Islamic angle -- Education in the Muslim world to the end of the eighteenth century -- On how since 1800 Islamic societies have been built from below -- Crisis of authority: crisis of Islam? -- Strategies of authority in Muslim south Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Islamic reform and modernities in south Asia -- Iranian influences on south Asia -- South Asia and west Asia from the Delhi sultanate to the present: security, resources and influence -- The memory of power, Muslim 'political importance' and the Muslim League -- The modern state: citizenship, multiculturalism and globalisation -- What Ralph Russell meant and means to me -- Love on the roof -- Hunting the tiger -- The garden of the eight paradises -- Uses for grass -- The Muslim commander bond -- Aromatherapy -- Love of Mahal -- Cosmopolis of a shared worldview -- In reverse -- Women, leadership, and mosques: changes in contemporary Islamic authority.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.
