Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these questions, editors Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo ......
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these questions, editors Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo ......
Governments can boost climate resilience by expanding access to information, promoting insurance, and investing in infrastructure. In South Asia, these actions are key to protecting people. Given limited public resources, the private sector will be key to driving solutions. The book lays out a policy roadmap to help unlock impact.
Why Muslims in South India observe hierarchical intra-communal relationships despite the egalitarianism of their religion In Seeking Allah's Hierarchy, P. C. Saidalavi provides an ethnographic study of a Muslim barber community in South India, unraveling how these barbers negotiated concepts of hierarchy through Islamic values of piety, ......
Why Muslims in South India observe hierarchical intra-communal relationships despite the egalitarianism of their religion In Seeking Allah's Hierarchy, P. C. Saidalavi provides an ethnographic study of a Muslim barber community in South India, unraveling how these barbers negotiated concepts of hierarchy through Islamic values of piety, ......
Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West
In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: 'You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook.' Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers stationed in British India and the U.S. West commanded considerable influence, as Verity McInnis reveals in ......
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
Honorable Mention, Hamid Naficy Iranian Studies Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral land until the nineteenth century, when steam-powered sea travel, the increased ......
Let the Marco Polo India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh Road Map guide you around these wonderful countries. Navigate like a local with this highly durable, detailed, touring map of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. It folds away easily and is always on standby to help when you're stuck. Perfect touring map - the scale is 1 : 2 500 ......
Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Can we write women's authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women's creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore these questions from a uniquely comparative perspective, delving ......
