SherAli Tareen is associate professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (2020).Faisal Devji is professor of Indian history and fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where he is also the director of the Asian Studies Centre.

This magisterial monograph brings razor-sharp focus to the analysis of Islamic discourses on Hindu–Muslim friendship in modern South Asia. Perilous Intimacies models close reading of and unrelenting listening to a range of heretofore neglected sources.

• Foreword, by Faisal DevjiAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: The Promise and Peril of Hindu-Muslim Friendship1. Translating the “Other”: Early Modern Muslim Understandings of Hinduism2. Deciding the “True” God: Miracle Wars and Interreligious Polemics3. Friendship and Sovereign Fantasies4. The Cow and the Caliphate5. The Contagion of Imitation: A Select Genealogy6. The Aligarh-Deoband Divide: Competing Rationalities of Reform in Muslim South AsiaEpilogueAppendix: Suggestions and Discussion Questions for Teaching This BookGlossaryNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

SherAli Tareen is associate professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (2020).Faisal Devji is professor of Indian history and fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where he is also the director of the Asian Studies Centre.

This magisterial monograph brings razor-sharp focus to the analysis of Islamic discourses on Hindu–Muslim friendship in modern South Asia. Perilous Intimacies models close reading of and unrelenting listening to a range of heretofore neglected sources.

• Foreword, by Faisal DevjiAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: The Promise and Peril of Hindu-Muslim Friendship1. Translating the “Other”: Early Modern Muslim Understandings of Hinduism2. Deciding the “True” God: Miracle Wars and Interreligious Polemics3. Friendship and Sovereign Fantasies4. The Cow and the Caliphate5. The Contagion of Imitation: A Select Genealogy6. The Aligarh-Deoband Divide: Competing Rationalities of Reform in Muslim South AsiaEpilogueAppendix: Suggestions and Discussion Questions for Teaching This BookGlossaryNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

SherAli Tareen is associate professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (2020).Faisal Devji is professor of Indian history and fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where he is also the director of the Asian Studies Centre.

This magisterial monograph brings razor-sharp focus to the analysis of Islamic discourses on Hindu–Muslim friendship in modern South Asia. Perilous Intimacies models close reading of and unrelenting listening to a range of heretofore neglected sources.

• Foreword, by Faisal DevjiAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: The Promise and Peril of Hindu-Muslim Friendship1. Translating the “Other”: Early Modern Muslim Understandings of Hinduism2. Deciding the “True” God: Miracle Wars and Interreligious Polemics3. Friendship and Sovereign Fantasies4. The Cow and the Caliphate5. The Contagion of Imitation: A Select Genealogy6. The Aligarh-Deoband Divide: Competing Rationalities of Reform in Muslim South AsiaEpilogueAppendix: Suggestions and Discussion Questions for Teaching This BookGlossaryNotesSelect BibliographyIndex