Da'wa and Other Religions: Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism

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Da'wa and Other Religions: Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism

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Authored by Matthew Kuiper, MSU faculty.

Da‘wa, a concept rooted in the scriptural and classical tradition of Islam, has been dramatically re-appropriated in modern times across the Muslim world. Championed by a variety of actors in diverse contexts, da‘wa –"inviting" to Islam, or Islamic missionary activity – has become central to the vocabulary of contemporary Islamic activism.>/p>

Da‘wa and Other Religions explores the modern resurgence of da‘wa through the lens of inter-religious relations and within the two horizons of Islamic history and modernity. Part I provides an account of da‘wa from the Qur’an to the present. It demonstrates the close relationship that has existed between da‘wa and inter-religious relations throughout Islamic history and sheds light on the diversity of da‘wa over time. The book also argues that Muslim communities in colonial and post-colonial India shed light on these themes with particular clarity. Part II, therefore, analyzes and juxtaposes two prominent da‘wa organizations to emerge from the Indian subcontinent in the past century: the Tablīghī Jamā‘at and the Islamic Research Foundation of Zakir Naik. By investigating the formative histories and inter-religious discourses of these movements, Part II elucidates the influential roles Indian Muslims have played in modern da‘wa.

Publication Date

2017

Publisher

Routledge

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London and New York

ISBN

978-1138054134

Digital Measures ID

151406700544

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Religious Studies

Da'wa and Other Religions: Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism

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