Islam In South Asia—Select Overview

Abstract

This chapter presents list of rulers, state expansion and activities by Islam in South India from the year 612 to 2002 that occur in this book Islam in South Asia. South Asia comprises a vast geographical area, half the size of Europe. The discussions on Islamic identity and normativity, the degree of orthodoxy and the following of Prophetic tradition are constitutive for scholarly Islam which again is informed by superiority complexes. The book discusses the early Muslim expansion and the formative phase in context of initial cultural encounter.Keywords: Muslim expansion; Prophetic tradition; South Asia