India's Islamic traditions 711-1750 / edited by Richard M. Eaton

Includes bibliography and index.

Introduction -- PART 1: REPRESENTING SELF AND OTHER : Epic and counter epic in medieval India / by Aziz Ahmed -- Islamic thought in relation to the Indian context / by Yohanan Friedmann – A medieval encounter between Hindu and Muslim: Eknath’s drama-poem Hindu-Turk Samvad / by Eleanor Zelliot -- Inscribing the other, inscribing the self: Hindu-Muslim identities in pre-colonial India / by Cynthia Talbot -- PART 2: RELIGION AND POLITICAL POWER : The nobility under Akbar and the development of his religious policy 1560-80 / by Iqtidar Alam Khan -- Jizya and the state in India during the seventeenth century / by Satish Chandra -- The sociology of political engagement: the Mahdawiyah and the state / by Derryl N. MacLean -- PART 3: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND LAW : Some general characteristics analysed / by Peter Hardy -- The magic doe: desire and narrative in a Hindavi Sufi Romance, circa 1503 / by Aditya Behl -- Hanafi Fiqh in Mughal India: the Fatawa-i Alamgiri / by Alan M. Guenther -- PART 4: SUFI AND SHI’I TRADITIONS : The Sufi Shaikh as a source of authority in medieval India / by Simon Digby – The political and religious authority of the shrine of Baba Farid / by Richard M. Eaton -- Creating tradition through devotional songs and communal script: the Khojah Ismailis South Asia / by Ali S. Asani -- Popular Shi’ism / by J. R. I. Cole -- PART 5: ISLAM IN THE REGIONS : The impact of Islam on Kashmir in the Sultanate period 1320-1586 / by Mohammed Ishaq Khan -- In search of equivalence: conceiving the Muslim-Hindu encounter through translation theory / by Tony K. Stewart -- Religious vocabulary and regional identity: a study of the Tamil Cirappuranam life of the prophet / by Vasudha Narayanan