Indian Muslim minorities and the 1857 Rebellion : religion, rebels, and jihad

Summary: "While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') on debates about the issue of jihad during the British Raj. Morgenstein Fuerst shows that the Rebellion had lasting, pronounced effects on the understanding by their Indian subjects (whether Muslim, Hindu or Sikh) of imperial rule by distant outsiders."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781784538552
ISBN: 1784538558
ISBN: 9781786732378
ISBN: 9781786722379
ISBN: 1786732378
ISBN: 1786722372
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages)
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Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Copyright: �2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-220) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Religion, Rebels, and Jihad -- Theoretical Framing -- A Note on Language -- Chapter Outline -- The Company, Religion, and Islam -- Religion before Rebellion -- "Watershed Moment": the Great Rebellion -- Greased Cartridges and Chapatis: the Anxiety of Religious Conspiracy -- Muslim Memories of the Great Rebellion -- Conclusions -- Suspect Subjects: Hunter and the Making of a Muslim Minority -- Bound to Rebel: Making Muslims a Minority -- Indian Musalmans and Hunter: Author of Empire -- Laws, Literalism, and All Muslims: Hunter's Claims -- Favorable Ruling, Unfavorable Interpretation -- Conclusions -- "God save me from my friends!": Syed Ahmad Khan's Review on Dr Hunter -- Sir Syed on the Great Rebellion -- An Academic Rejoinder to Indian Musalmans -- A Legalism of His Own: Sir Syed on Hunter's Use of Islamic Law -- On Muslim Loyalty -- On Literalism, Wahhabism, and Jihad -- Conclusions -- Rebellion as Jihad, Jihad as Religion -- Defining Jihad -- Making Muslims Jihadis -- Jihad in Imperial India and the Great Rebellion -- Conclusions.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 14, 2018).