The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 /
In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Ri...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1993], ©1993
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| Series: | Comparative studies on Muslim societies ;
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE: BENGAL UNDER THE SULTANS: Before the Turkish conquest
- The articulation of political authority
- Early Surfis of the Delta
- Economy, society, and culture
- Mass conversion to Islam: theories and protagonists
- PART TWO: BENGAL UNDER THE MUGHALS: The rise of Mughal power
- Mughal culture and its diffusion
- Islam and the agrarian order in the East
- Mosque and shrine in the rural landscape
- The rooting of Islam in Bengal
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Mint towns and inscription sites under Muslim rulers, 1204-1760
- Appendix 2: Principal rulers of Bengal, 1204-1757
- 1 Before the Turkish Conquest. Bengal in Prehistory. Easy Indo-Aryan Influence in Bengal. The Rise of Early Medieval Hindi Culture. The Diffusion of Bengali Hindu Civilization
- 2. The Articulation of Political Authority. Perso-Islamic Conceptions of Political Authority, Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries. A Province of the Delhi Sultanate, 1204-1342. The Early Bengal Sultanate, 1342-ca. 1400. The Rise of Raja Ganesh (ca. 1400-1421). Sultan Jalal al-Din Muhammad (1415-32) and His Political Ideology. The Indigenization of Royal Authority, 1433-1538. Summary
- 3. Early Sufis of the Delta. The Question of Sufis and Frontier Warfare. Bengali Sufis and Hindu Thought. Sufis of the Capital
- 4. Economy, Society, and Culture. The Political Economy of the Sultanate. Ashraf and Non-Ashraf Society. Hindu Society - Responses to the Conquest. Hindu Religion - the Siva-Sakta. Hindu Religion - the Vaishnava Complex
- 5. Mass Conversion to Islam: Theories and Protagonists. Four Conventional Theories of Islamization in India. Theories of Islamization in Bengal. The Appearance of a Bengali Muslim Peasantry
- 6. The Rise of Mughal Power. The Afghan Age, 1537-1612. The Early Mughal Experience in Bengal, 1574-1610. The Consolidation of Mughal Authority, 1610-1704
- 7. Mughal Culture and Its Diffusion. The Political Basis of Mughal Culture in Bengal. The Place of Bengal in Mughal Culture. The Place of Islam in Mughal Culture. The Administration of Mughal Law - the Villagers' View. West Bengal: The Integration of Imperial Authority. The Northern Frontier: Resistance to Imperial Authority. East Bengal: Conquest and Culture Change
- 8. Islam and the Agrarian Order in the East. Riverine Changes and Economic Growth. Charismatic Pioneers on the Agrarian Frontier. The Religious Gentry in Bakarganj and Dhaka, 1650-1760
- 9. Mosque and Shrine in the Rural Landscape. The Mughal State and the Agrarian Order. The Rural Mosque in Bengali History. The Growth of Mosques and Shrines in Rural Chittagong, 1666-1760. The Rise of Chittagong's Religious Gentry. The Religious Gentry of Sylhet
- 10. The Rooting of Islam in Bengal. Inclusion. Identification. Displacement. Literacy and Islamization. Gender and Islamization
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Mint Towns and Inscription Sites under Muslim Rulers, 1204-1760
- Appendix: 2: Principal Muslim Rulers of Bengal.