Narrative Pasts
The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650
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ISBN:
9780190123994
Publication date:
17/02/2020
Hardback
248 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1295.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190123994
Publication date:
17/02/2020
Hardback
248 pages
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
The book highlights the role of learned Muslim men in giving coherence to the region of Gujarat,It is largely based on Persian and Arabic Sufi texts that have rarely been employed to write the history of medieval and early modern Gujarat,It highlights the significance of historical processes in the fifteenth century, a period that is now increasingly seen as one of political and cultural dynamism not decline.,It situates the consolidation of Gujarat's regional identity between the fifteenth and the seventeenth century within the larger social, political, and literary developments in South Asia
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Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Description
Narrative Pasts retrieves the social history of a Muslim community in Gujarat, a region that has one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the book reveals the importance of learned Muslim men in imparting a distinct regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The prominence of Gujarat's maritime location has often oriented the study of Gujarat towards the commercial world of the western Indian Ocean world. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat's sultanate and Mughal past to the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.
About the author
Dr. Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State UniversityJyoti Gulati Balachandran is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. A historian of medieval and early modern (c. 1200-1800) South Asia, Balachandran received her doctoral degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is interested in social and cultural histories of Muslim communities in Gujarat and the wider Indian Ocean world. Her research has appeared in the Indian Economic and Social History Review and she has contributed several articles to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Table of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation/Transliteration/Dates
Introduction
1. From Inscriptions to Texts: Locating the History of Muslim Migration and Settlement
2. State, Settlement, Texts: The Beginnings of Community and History Making in Gujarat
3. Texts and Tombs: The Creation of a Sacral Geography
4. Networks of Community Formation
5. Seventeenth-century Historiographical Resolutions: Ahmad Khattu and the Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sad Hikayat
Conclusion
Appendix: Shaykh Ahmad Khattu and his Suhrawardi Contemporaries in 16th- and 17th- century tazkirat
Bibliography
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Description
Narrative Pasts retrieves the social history of a Muslim community in Gujarat, a region that has one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the book reveals the importance of learned Muslim men in imparting a distinct regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The prominence of Gujarat's maritime location has often oriented the study of Gujarat towards the commercial world of the western Indian Ocean world. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat's sultanate and Mughal past to the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.
About the author
Dr. Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State UniversityJyoti Gulati Balachandran is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. A historian of medieval and early modern (c. 1200-1800) South Asia, Balachandran received her doctoral degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is interested in social and cultural histories of Muslim communities in Gujarat and the wider Indian Ocean world. Her research has appeared in the Indian Economic and Social History Review and she has contributed several articles to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Table of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation/Transliteration/Dates
Introduction
1. From Inscriptions to Texts: Locating the History of Muslim Migration and Settlement
2. State, Settlement, Texts: The Beginnings of Community and History Making in Gujarat
3. Texts and Tombs: The Creation of a Sacral Geography
4. Networks of Community Formation
5. Seventeenth-century Historiographical Resolutions: Ahmad Khattu and the Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sad Hikayat
Conclusion
Appendix: Shaykh Ahmad Khattu and his Suhrawardi Contemporaries in 16th- and 17th- century tazkirat
Bibliography
Hugh Bowden
John Robertson
William Doyle
Carl Abbott
Chris Gosden
Ashley Jackson
Alan Knight
Allen C. Guelzo
Heather Clark
Paul Bahn
