Tag: History
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Close Encounters With The Other Kind: A Scholar of Hinduism and his Muslim Interlocutors
I take the disciplinary category of “Hindu Studies” to mean also “Studies of al-Hind”: that is, socioreligious interactions across individuals and groups in Hindustan.
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The Muslim self and its Hindu neighbours: amity and antagonism in the homelands of Bengal
Earlier this year, I published a book with the title “The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors: Contested Borderlines on Bengali Landscapes”. When the manuscript was nearing completion, I realized – somewhat to my shock – that I had unwittingly written a book with the title “The Muslim Self and its Hindu Neighbors”. In other…
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Muhammad: Prophet of Peace
The discussion begins with remarks about the question of the sources for such a history, it then situates the life of the prophet in the context of late antiquity and the contemporaneous ‘world war’ between Rome and Persia. Quranic allusions to these geopolitics are highlighted, followed by an illuminating discussion on the original meaning of…
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