Abstract
Beyond Revival and Reform: Reorienting the Study of South Asian Islam
Highlights
This special volume presents and explores new problem-spaces, archives, and approaches in the study of South Asian Islam that venture significantly beyond and substantively reorient the framings of revival and reform that have typically dominated discussions on this topic
Recently have scholars begun to take seriously the texts, histories and practices of Islam in vernacular Indian languages and literatures. This shift can be marked by a growing number of jobs that describe positions as the “Study of Islam” open to time periods, languages, geographic contexts that are beyond Arabic and the Arab world—which are normally associated with the more traditional field of “Islamic Studies.”
In the backdrop of this broader historiographic context, the goal of this special volume is to bring together experts in the field of South Asian history with scholars of Religious Studies to revisit some key yet hitherto less examined components of South Asian Islam. The premise of this volume is to argue that historians need to engage more closely with the categories and ideas of “tradition” while Religious Studies scholars must work with the forms of critique and questions of historiography that are at the center of the historian’s practice
Summary
This special volume presents and explores new problem-spaces, archives, and approaches in the study of South Asian Islam that venture significantly beyond and substantively reorient the framings of revival and reform that have typically dominated discussions on this topic. From the perspective of Religious Studies, Islam in South Asia is a new field.
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