Defending Muḥammad in Modernity Tareen Sherali
Defending Muḥammad in Modernity Tareen Sherali In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most…
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Defending Muḥammad in Modernity Tareen Sherali
In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. Almost two hundred years separate the beginnings of this polemic from the present. The Barelvī and Deobandī groups are two normative orientations/reform movements with beginnings in colonial South Asia.
Its specter, however, continues to haunt the religious sensibilities of postcolonial South Asian Muslims in profound ways, both in the region and in diaspora communities around the world.Defending Muḥammad in Modernity challenges the commonplace tendency to view such moments of intra-Muslim contest through the prism of problematic yet powerful liberal secular binaries like legal/mystical, moderate/extremist,