Download or read book Islam South Asia and the Cold War written by Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed Noorani and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam, South Asia & The Cold War is a collection of articles written by A. G. Noorani over the last twenty-five years, and published in various dailies and journals to which he has been a regular contributor, including Frontline, The Statesman, The Indian Express, The Illustrated Weekly of India and the Islamabad quarterly Criterion. The book is divided into three thematic sections - Islam and Muslims, South Asian Themes, and Ravages of the Cold War - and provides interesting insights into the issues dealt with, from the perspective of a leading political commentator and legal expert of our times.
Download or read book Great Powers and South Asia written by Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Asia After The Cold War written by Kanti P Bajpai and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1993-12-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defeating Political Islam written by Moorthy S. Muthuswamy and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urging U.S. policy makers to rethink the War on Terror along the lines of the Cold War against communism, "Defeating Political Islam" offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing threat from Islamist terrorism and the future course of U.S. foreign policy initiatives.
Download or read book Islam in South Asia written by Jamal Malik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic South Asia has become a focal point in academia. Where did Muslims come from? How did they fare in interacting with Hindu cultures? How did they negotiate identity as ruling and ruled minorities and majorities? Part I covers early Muslim expansion and the formative phase in context of initial cultural encounter (app. 700-1300). Part II views the establishment of Muslim empire, cultures oscillating between Islamic and Islamicate, centralised and regionalised power (app. 1300-1700). Part III is composed in the backdrop of regional centralisation, territoriality and colonial rule, displaying processes of integration and differentiation of Muslim cultures in colonial setting (app. 1700-1930). Tensions between Muslim pluralism and singularity evolving in public sphere make up the fourth cluster (app. 1930-2002).
Download or read book Cold War in the Islamic World written by Dilip Hiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni-Shia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis see this as a conflict between Sunni and Shia; Iran's ruling clerics view it as one between their own Islamic Republic and an illegitimate monarchy. This foundational schism has played out in a geopolitical competition for dominance in the region: Iran has expanded its influence in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, while Saudi Arabia's hyperactive crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, has intervened in Yemen, isolated Qatar and destabilized Lebanon. Dilip Hiro examines the toxic rivalry between the two countries, tracing its roots and asking whether this Islamic Cold War is likely to end any time soon.
Download or read book Islam America and South Asia written by M. Saleem Kidwai and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a serious attempt to present a true picture of Islam. It highlights basic tenets of Islam. The learned essays included in book provide a realistic analysis of their concepts as essay on democracy, Jihad, human rights reveal. About The Author: - Dr. M. Saleem Kidwai, is a faculty member, centre for American studies, SIS, JNU, New Delhi. Contents: - Preface Islam and Democracy Islamic Concept of Jihad-Myths and Reality Islam and Human Rights Islam and Terrorism Islam and Women Is There a Church in Islam? US and Islam US and Muslim World: Impressions of Visiting Specialist American Misperceptions of Islam Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World Islam and America-Shared Values Muslims in America American Perceptions on Jihad: Myth and Reality USA and Terrorism Human Rights in US Domestic and Foreign Policies US India Relations US and Kashmir Issue US Role in Indo-Pak Relations FDR, Nehru and India's Freedom Struggle US-Russian Relations US and Central Asia Changing U.S. Priorities in Central Asia US-China Axis: Implications for India Indo-Canadian Relations into the 21st Century Pressure Groups in Canada India's Case for Permanent Membership of the UN Security Council: Reactions of the Major EU Member States Relevance of Non-Alignment Indian Muslims Muslims and Reservation Jawaharlal Nehru and the Arab World Rajiv Gandhi-A Secular Political Leader Index The Title 'Islam, America And South Asia: Issues of Identities written/authored/edited by M. Saleem Kidwai', published in the year 2005. The ISBN 9788121208703 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 280 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is International Studies / RELIGION / PHILOSOP
Download or read book The New Cold War written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Muslim leaders in Egypt, Palestine, and Algeria, political rabbis in Israel, militant Sikhs in India, and triumphant Catholic clergy in Eastern Europe are all players in Juergensmeyer's study of the explosive growth of religious movements that decisively reject Western ideas of secular nationalism. Juergensmeyer revises our notions of religious revolutions. Instead of viewing religious nationalists as wild-eyed, anti-American fanatics, he reveals them as modern activists pursuing a legitimate form of politics. He explores the positive role religion can play in the political life of modern nations, even while acknowledging some religious nationalists' proclivity to violence and disregard of Western notions of human rights. Finally, he situates the growth of religious nationalism in the context of the political malaise of the modern West. Noting that the synthesis of traditional religion and secular nationalism yields a religious version of the modern nation-state, Juergensmeyer claims that such a political entity could conceivably embrace democratic values and human rights.
Download or read book Post Cold War Developments in South Asia written by Ramakant and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar papers.
Download or read book Pan Islamic Connections written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia is today the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims---roughly 500 million. In the course of the Islamisation process, which begaun in the eighth century, it developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilisation that culminated in the Mughal Empire. While paying lip service to the power centres of Islam in the Gulf, including Mecca and Medina, this civilisation has cultivated its own variety of Islam, based on Sufism. Over the last fifty years, pan-Islamic ties have intensified between these two regions. Gathering together some of the best specialists on the subject, this volume explores these ideological, educational and spiritual networks, which have gained momentum due to political strategies, migration flows and increased communications. At stake are both the resilience of the civilisation that imbued South Asia with a specific identity, and the relations between Sunnis and Shias in a region where Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting a cultural proxy war, as evident in the foreign ramifications of sectarianism in Pakistan. Pan-Islamic Connections investigates the nature and implications of the cultural, spiritual and socio-economic rapprochement between these two Islams.
Download or read book Islam in South Asia written by Asim Roy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam in South Asia Theory and practice written by Mushirul Hasan and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The readings in this series are designed to cover important facets of islam in South Asia, and to enhance our understanding of `Islam Observed` and `Islam Interpreted`. Volume 1 reveals, with the aid of travellers, novelists, missionaries and administrators, how the nation of a distinct and exclusive Muslim Identity came to be invented in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The second half of this volume, based on scholarly writings, provides a corrective to these images and representations.
Download or read book Lived Islam in South Asia written by Imtiaz Ahmad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia is probably the largest area in the world where Islam exists within a mixed composite culture, overlapping with several other religions. No matter how many origins of political conflicts one may find in the domain of culture and religion, there are, at the same time, elements of peaceful co-existence as well.
Download or read book The State of Islam written by Saadia Toor and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State of Islam tells the story of the Pakistani nation-state through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, in order to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the rise of militant Islam across the world. Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state in Pakistan, which tends to privilege events in a narrowly-defined political realm, The State of Islam is a Gramscian analysis of cultural politics in Pakistan from its origins to the contemporary period. The author uses the tools of cultural studies and postcolonial theory to understand what is at stake in discourses of Islam, socialism and the nation in Pakistan. Among other things, The State of Islam seeks to explain how Pakistan went from being a place where the strategic battle for hegemony was fought between two secular forces -- the liberal nationalists and the Marxist cultural Left or Progressives -- to one where the national discourse has become increasingly defined by the agenda of the religious right. Toor argues how this was directly tied to the Cold War context in which political Islam was advanced, along with the marginalization and active repression of the organized Left and attempts to marginalize its alternate visions of Pakistani society.
Download or read book Modern Sufis and the State written by Katherine Pratt Ewing and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism is typically thought of as the mystical side of Islam. In recent years, it has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to the spread of forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of democratic ideals of tolerance and pluralism. Are Sufis in fact as otherworldy and apolitical as this stereotype suggests? Modern Sufis and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions that are made about Sufism today. Focusing on India and Pakistan within a broader global context, this book provides locally grounded accounts of how Sufis in South Asia have engaged in politics from the colonial period to the present. Contributors foreground the effects and unintended consequences of efforts to link Sufism with the spread of democracy and consider what roles scholars and governments have played in the making of twenty-first-century Sufism. They critique the belief that Salafism and Sufism are antithetical, offering nuanced analyses of the diversity, multivalence, and local embeddedness of Sufi political engagements and self-representations in Pakistan and India. Essays question the portrayal of Sufi shrines as sites of toleration, peace, and harmony, exploring cases of tension and conflict. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection, Modern Sufis and the State is a timely call to think critically about the role of public discourse in shaping perceptions of Sufism.
Download or read book Islam in South Asia written by Amit Dey and published by Parul Prakashani Private Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly, insightful and, at the same time, written in an exceptionally lucid style, this book challenges certain stereotypes relating to Islam, Sufism, folk songs and inter community relations in the South Asian context. By consulting Persian, Urdu, Bengali and English sources, this book suggests that Sufism is more heterogeneous and complex than what is commonly taken to be.
Download or read book Islam and Muslim History in South Asia written by Francis Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays address key themes in the history of the Muslims of South Asia: conversion to Islam, the emergence of this-worldly religion, the process of secularization, and the relationship between religion and politics.
