Islam in South Asia in practice - Metcalf, Barbara Daly. (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009)
Guidance, sharia, and law. Ibn Battuta as a Qadi in the Maldives / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Guiding the ruler and prince / Muzaffar Alam -- A colonial court defines a Muslim / Alan M. Guenther -- Maulana Thanawi's fatwa on the limits of parental rights over children / Fareeha Khan -- Shari'at governance in colonial and postcolonial India / Ebrahim Moosa -- Two Sufis on molding the new Muslim woman : Khwaja Hasan Nizami (1878-1955) and Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) / Marcia Hermansen -- Fatwa advice on proper Muslim names / Muhammad Khalid Masud -- A rallying cry for Muslim personal law : the Shah Bano case and its aftermath / Sylvia Vatuk -- Belonging. Forest clearing and the growth of Islam in Bengal / Richard Eaton -- Challenging the Mughal emporer : the Islamic millennium according to 'Abd al-Qadir Badayuni / Ahmed Azfar Moin -- Custom and conversion in Malabar : Zayn al-Din al-Malibari's Gift of the Mujahidin : some accounts of the Portuguese / Engseng Ho -- Muslim league appeals to the voters of Punjab for support of Pakistan / David Gilmartin -- Advocating a secular Pakistan : the Munir report of 1954 / Asad Ahmed -- Maulana Yusuf Ludhianvi on the limits of legitimate religious differences / Naveeda Khan -- The Indian Jama'at-i Islami reconsiders secular democracy / Irfan Ahmad.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Islam -- South Asia