Reclaiming Karbala: Nation, Islam and Literature of the Bengali Muslims

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
A Note On Transliteration and Other Conventions
Abbreviations
Introduction: Situating Karbala in Bengal
	The Bengali Muslim Jatiy.ata Beyond the Nationalist Framework: A Proposal
	Karbala in the Battle of Islamic Reform: Pan-Islamism and the Regional Print Network
	Karbala in the Islamicate World: Between the “Universal” and the “Local”
	The Actors of Bengali Ummah: Problems With Categorisation in the Province
	The Local and the Multilingual Literary Contexts
		Multilingual
		The Time-Space of the Local Karbala
		The Outline of the Book
		Why this Book Now?
	Notes
1 Mapping Karbala From Orality to Print
	Prologue
	1.1 Creative Application of Islamic Ideas in Early Modern Bengal
		1.1.1 Karbala in the Bengal Region
		1.1.2 Translation/Rewriting as Intertextuality, Narrative as Speech Act
	1.2 Dobhashi: The Language of the Popular
		1.2.1 From Recitation to Print: At the Threshold
		1.2.2 How Cheap, How Scriptural: The Internal Ambivalence of Dobhashi
	1.3 Oral Forms, Scripted Format: Whatever Happened to the Performative?
	1.4 Writing as Sacred Ritual: Turning Pain From Body to Book
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Print and Husayn-Centric Piety
	Prologue
	2.1 New Sober Islam and the New Authors
		2.1.1 Sunna and Maẓhab: Two Elements of Reformist Sensibilities
		2.1.2 From Pir-Centric Piety to Prophet-Centric Piety: Muhammad as the Moral Template
	2.2 The Caliphate and the Ahl Al-Bayt: Two Legacies of Muhammad and His Intercession
		2.2.1 Namaz and the Ahl Al-Bayt: Muhammad’s Twin Treasures
	2.3 Fatima, the Mother of the Martyrs: The Template of Sabr
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 The Rhetoric of Loss and Recovery: The Moment of Muslim jātīyatā
	Prologue
	3.1 The Beginning of jātīẏatā: Bengaliness and Muslimness
		3.1.1 The jātīẏa between Syed Ameer Ali and Jamāluddīn al-Afghānī
		3.1.2 Anjumans, Periodicals and the New Print Network: Affiliation, Alliance and Antagonism
	3.2 Talking Back to the Evangelists and Orientalists: Jesus Versus Muhammad
	3.3 The Bangla–Urdu Divide: Bengali Muslims Between Region and Nation
	3.4 Literariness of jātīẏa sāhitya
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 The Recovery of the Past: History and Biography
	Prologue
	4.1 A Hindu Nationalist Script and the Muslim jātīẏa
		4.1.1 The Search for jātīẏa: Territorial Expansion and Authentication
		4.1.2 Writing the History of the Sacred: Between Medina and Mymensingh
	4.2 Jībanī/Carit as a Modern Genre: The Contribution of Girishchandra Sen
	4.3 Writing jātīẏa itihās and jībanī as modern literature: Between the rational and the miraculous
	4.4 Other Histories and Other Biographies: Between the Pan-Islamic and the Province
	4.5 Ummah, succession and the Karbala in Jātīẏa Sāhitya
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 Literature, Modernity, Multilinguality
	Prologue
	5.1 Miśra Bangla: Linguistic Identity-In-Difference
		5.1.1 Reformist Islam and its claims over the Bangla language: Āhle Hādis, Islām Darśan, Baṇgīẏa Mussalmān Sāhitya Patrikā
		5.1.2 Bangla as miśra bhāshā and Muslim multilingualism
		5.1.3 Redefining Literary Modernity: Recovering Puthis, Discovering the Folk
	5.2 Karbala: Intra-Literary Reception and Rejection
		5.2.1 Narrative as argumentative discourse: Mohārram Kānda
		5.2.2 From Mahāśmaśān Kābya to Maharam Śarīph bā Ātmabisarjan Kābya: Kaykobad and Karbala
	5.3 Poetry as Kaiphiẏat: Kārbālā Kābya and Maharam Śariph
	Conclusion
	Notes
Afterword: 300 Karbalas and Beyond
	Karbala, a Multilingual Local and World Literature
		Sādhārantaṇtra and the republic
	Husayn: Found and Lost and Found
	Notes
Bibliography
Index