Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict by Imtiaz Ahmad & Helmut Reifeld (Eds.) - 2011

Social Science Press/Orient BlackSwan Pvt. Ltd, 2011. Softcover. New. 14 X 21 cm. Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict explores the everyday religious lives of Muslims in South Asia. The book argues that Islam cannot be understood through the works of theologians alone, for whom it is a formal, uniform and rigid system of beliefs and practices. Popular Islam, or Islam as it is practised by millions of Muslims in South Asia, has an empirical validity and is a dynamic process of adjustment and accommodation as well as conflict with other religions, with which it coexists. Printed Pages: 334. NA