The religious identity of indegenous Gujjars in the Himilayan region remains largely unexplored. This book argues that their choice to associate with Deobandi Islam occurs in the wider context of conservation debates, local government-led efforts to relocate them from the Rajaji…
Introduction: politicizing Islam across north and south -- Secularism and Muslim marginality -- Politics of redistribution -- Political community in the slums of Hyderabad -- Politics of recognition -- Antipolitics in the banlieues of Lyon -- Conclusion: democracy, feminism, and…
This comparative ethnography explores Islamic revival movements in France and India, home to the largest numbers of Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia. Parvez provides an in-depth view into how Muslims in two cities struggle to improve their lives as denigrated minorit…
This comparative ethnography explores Islamic revival movements in France and India, home to the largest numbers of Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia. Parvez provides an in-depth view into how Muslims in two cities struggle to improve their lives as denigrated minorit…
Politicizing Islam explores Islamic revival movements in the French city of Lyon and its outer banlieues and the Indian city of Hyderabad, where Parvez conducted two years of ethnographic research, immersed in mosque communities, women's welfare centers, Islamic study circles, a…
Politicizing Islam explores Islamic revival movements in the French city of Lyon and its outer banlieues and the Indian city of Hyderabad, where Parvez conducted two years of ethnographic research, immersed in mosque communities, women's welfare centers, Islamic study circles, a…
In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu ri…
Introduction : walking away from the theater of history -- Jinnealogy : archival amnesia and Islamic theology in post-partition Delhi -- Saintly visions : the ethics of elsewhen -- Strange(r)ness -- Desiring women -- Translation -- Stones, snakes, and saints : remembering the va…