Narrative pasts: the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650
Introduction -- From inscriptions to texts : locating the history of Muslim migration and settlement -- State, settlement, texts : the beginnings of community and history making in Guajarat -- Texts and tombs : the creation of sacral geography -- Networks of community formation -- Seventeenth-centur...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India
Oxford University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Narrative pasts - the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650] (2022) (Nizami, Moin Ahmad)
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gujarat
/ Muslim
/ History 1400-1650
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| Further subjects: | B
Muslims
B Muslims (India) (Gujarat) History B Historiography B Gujarat (India) Historiography B History B India ; Gujarat |
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| Summary: | Introduction -- From inscriptions to texts : locating the history of Muslim migration and settlement -- State, settlement, texts : the beginnings of community and history making in Guajarat -- Texts and tombs : the creation of sacral geography -- Networks of community formation -- Seventeenth-century historiographical resolutions : Aḥmad Khattū and the Suhrawardi contemporaries in Ṣad Ḥikāyat -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Shaykh Aḥmad Khattū and his Suhrawardi contemporaries in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Taz̲kirāt. "Narrative Pasts retrieves the social history of a Muslim community in Gujarat, a region that has one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the book reveals the importance of learned Muslim men in imparting a distinct regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The prominence of Gujarat's maritime location has often oriented the study of Gujarat towards the commercial world of the western Indian Ocean world. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat's sultanate and Mughal past to the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia"--Amazon.com |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index |
| ISBN: | 0190123990 |