ABSTRACT
This volume examines Muslim societies across Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia from the eighteenth century to the present, providing fresh insight through comparison. Movements and populations covered include the nineteenth century North African Sansusi movement and its relationships to Sufis and Arabs of the region, Soviet and Chinese Central Asia, Muslim-Hindu relationships in South Asia, Muslims in Syria and Muslim immigrants in Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|35 pages
Faction Struggles Among the Bukharan Ulama During the Colonial, the Revolutionary and The early Soviet Periods (1868–1929)
A paradigm for history writing?
chapter 5|12 pages
‘Majorities' and ‘Minorities' in Modern South Asian Islam
A historian's perspective
chapter 8|16 pages
Comment 1: Symbiosis and Conflict
Reflections on Andalusi history and historiography
