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Mosques of Colonial South Asia

A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship

Av Sana Haroon

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In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship. Their efforts failed as the ideals they presented flew in the face of colonial secularism. This book looks at the legal history of Muslim endowments and the intellectual and social history of sectarian identities, demonstrating how these topics are interconnected in ways that affected the everyday lives of mosque congregants across North India. Through the use of legal records, archives and multiple case studies Sana Haroon ties a series of narrative threads stretching across multiple regions in Colonial South Asia.
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Sana Haroon is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. She is the author of Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland.

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“Through five illuminating case studies of disputes surrounding mosques acrossBritish India and Burma, Sana Haroon explores the dilemmas of public worshipin a colonial secular state. Showing how mosques became spaces of socialinfluence and control, she traces the ascent of prayer-leaders and mosquecustodians as these lesser-known counterparts to Sufis and ‘ulama becamewidespread intermediaries between ordinary Muslims and legal officialdom.”

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