Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia
Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncovers the paradoxical workings of colonial laws that promised to separate secular and religious spheres, but instead fostered their vexed entanglement. It...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Forging secular legal governance
- Personal law and the problem of marital property
- Taming custom
- Ritual and the authority of reason
- Pathologizing Muslim sentiment
- Islamic economy : a forgone alternative
- Conclusion.