The Muslim World in Modern South Asia: Power, Authority, Knowledge

Contents
Acknowledgments
Transliteration
Glossary
Introduction
1 The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance
	Notes
2 Global History from an Islamic Angle
	The Muslim World and Global History
	Shared Worlds of Knowledge and Experience
		The World of Storytelling
		Astrology
		Commodities of Global Impact
		The ‘Protestant Turn’
	Notes
3 Education in the Muslim World to the End of the Eighteenth Century
	The Fields of Knowledge
	The Transmission of Knowledge
	Madrasas and Education
	The Spread of Education Beyond the Central Islamic Lands
	Spiritual Education
	The Early Education of Children
	Slave Education
	Popular Education
	Women and Education
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 On How Since 1800 Islamic Societies Have Been Built from Below
	Notes
5 Crisis of Authority: Crisis of Islam?
	Notes
6 Strategies of Authority in Muslim South Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
	Religious Leaders
	Unani Hakims, Medical Leaders
	Literary Leaders
	Rulers
	Conclusion
	Notes
7 Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia
	The Assault on the Authority of the Past
	The New Emphasis on Human Will
	Transformation of the Self
	Rationalisation
	Secularisation
	Notes
8 Iranian Influences on South Asia
	Power, People and Iranian Influence in South Asia
	The Two Pillars of Iranian Influence in South Asia
	The Pillars of Iranian Influence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
	The Swift Decline of Iranian Influence from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
	Two Final Reflections
	Notes
9 South Asia and West Asia from the Delhi Sultanate to the Present: Security, Resources and Influence
	From the Delhi Sultanate to the British
		Resources
		Influence
	The British Period
		Security
		Resources
		Influence
	Post-Independence
	Notes
10 The Memory of Power, Muslim ‘Political Importance’ and the Muslim League
	The Memory of Power, Its Cultivation and the Values that Went with It
	Putting the Memory of Past Glory to Work in Politics
	Notes
11 The Modern State: Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Globalisation
	Cosmopolitanism before the Nation-State
	The Onset of the Modern Nation-State
	Globalisation, Citizenship and the Modern Nation-State
	Multiculturalism
	Notes
12 What Ralph Russell Meant and Means to Me
	Notes
13 Love on the Roof
	Note
14 Hunting the Tiger
	Note
15 The Garden of the Eight Paradises
	Notes
16 Uses for Grass
	Note
17 The Muslim Commander Bond
	Note
18 Aromatherapy
	Note
19 Love of Mahal
	Notes
20 Cosmopolis of a Shared Worldview
	Notes
21 In Reverse
	Note
22 Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority
	Note
Index