Author: Momin Mohiuddin
Publisher: Sundeep Prakashan
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 303
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175741260
Description
An attempt is made to study the Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan dating from the earliest known arrivals of foreign Muslims on the Western coastland in the Konkan littoral, until the end of the nineteenth century. The present study seeks to identify the socio-intellectual and politico-religious roles played by them on the stage of history; and to appreciate their contribution to various other aspects of culture co-related to this, are the assessments made of the commercial activities and progressions of the early Perso-Arab traders by placing them within the periphery of religious geography.
The Project involves in its construction a study of the rudiments of Islamic culture and its interaction over the year with the indigenous acculturation through a series a cultural symbols and synthesisation. It initiates a discussion on the group claiming foreign origin, class relationship and ethnic identities. The souces at our disposal help us the construction of Muslim ethnic communities which persisted in different phases emerging from the Middle Eastern cultural setting sharing basic cultural values of early Islamic society.
This book will be of great interest not only for historians but sociologists, as well as economists and others.
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1. The Arab and Persian Traders in Konkan
2. Early Muslim Immigrants and their Settlements in Konkan
3. Foreign Sunni Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan
4. Konkani Muslim Society in Medieval Konkan
5. Foreign Sunni Muslim Communities in Medieval konkan Arabs, Sayyids and Habashis (Siddis)
6. Sunni Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan
7. The Weavers Community
8. Shiah Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan : Ithna Asharis
9. Shiah Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan : The Afaqis and Persian-Mughals
10. Isma ili-Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan : The Mustalian (Bohars)
11. Isma ili-Muslim Communities in Medieval Konkan : The Nizarian (Khojas)
12. Religious Milieu in Konkan
13. Social and Political Miliew in Konkan
14. The Mantality of Muslim Patricians in Konkan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PERIODICALS
INDEX