Jinnealogy: time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi
Series: South Asia in MotionPublication details: Stanford University Press, 2017. Standford:Description: xvi, 313p. : ill. ; pb. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781503603936
- 297.39095456 TAN
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294.5924 DEB Bhagavad Gita for millennials | 294.594 YAJ Treatise on dharma | 294.63 MAT Amma, take me to the Golden Temple | 297.39095456 TAN Jinnealogy: time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi | 299.51482 GUI Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: a book about the way and the power of the way | 300 ERD Identity justice and resistance in the neoliberal city | 300 GER Applied social science methodology: an introductory guide |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.--Publisher description.
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