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Sovereignty and its Afterlives in Muslim South Asia: A Response

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
SherAli Tareen
March 9, 2021March 12, 2021

With the loss of Muslim political sovereignty in nineteenth-century South Asia, the pioneers of the Barelvī and Deobandī orientations and their predecessors articulated and avidly fought for two rival visions of the relationship between divine sovereignty, prophetic authority, and the practice of everyday life.

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Decolonial Islamic Studies and Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Sohaira Siddiqui
March 4, 2021February 1, 2024

With remarkable subtlety, Tareen impresses upon the reader the distinction between the ability of colonial modernity to affect the nature of intellectual debates and the ability of colonial modernity to affect the content of those debates.

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The Formation of Religious Identities in Modern Islam: Recounting a Story from Nineteenth-Century South Asia

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Ammar Khan Nasir
March 2, 2021January 26, 2024

South Asian Islam, one might argue, still has to come to terms with the new political and cultural realities of the postcolonial context and to find a way in which different religious identities can coexist without undermining the underlying fabric of society.

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Decolonizing the Study of South Asian Islam: Reflections on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Waris Mazhari
February 25, 2021January 27, 2024

Why must we employ Western frameworks and categories of analysis like political theology to examine indigenous theological discourses and debates?

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“Holding on to God’s Rope”: Knotting the Adventure of Trace in Tradition

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Zunaira Komal
February 19, 2021February 23, 2021

The contestations between these ‘ulamā’ reveal deep investments in the question of what constitutes the ethico-moral-political life of a community.

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Prophet Motive

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Faisal Devji
February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

Controversies about the Prophet’s status rehearse a political as much as a theological paradox, since the very effort to expel sovereignty from human society while preserving it elsewhere sets the stage for its spectacular return.

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Theology and the Ironies of History

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Ebrahim Moosa
February 16, 2021March 2, 2021

Most theological disputes have an afterlife, and some of these intricate and subtle debates about the authority of Islam’s messenger and prophet still percolate in the hearts and minds of the faithful to this very day.

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Rejoining the Ottoman and South Asian Worlds

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Jonathan Brown
February 15, 2021February 16, 2021

One cannot read the landscape of Islamic thought and practice in British India through a lens ground to catch binaries like tradition/reform, law/mysticism, Arab/indigenous, extremist/tolerant, Salafi/Madhhabi-Sufi.

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