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082			_223 _a954.088297 _bMETI
100			_aBarbara D Metcalf _91114
245			_aIslamic contestations _bEssays on muslims in India and Pakistan
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2004
300			_aviii,365p. _bHB _c22.5x14cm
365			_b₹595.00 _c₹ _d₹595.00
520			_aThe essays in this volume, written over the course of the last quarter century, are intended to contribute to understanding the role that Islamic symbols and identities have come to play in Northern India and, since 1947, in Pakistan. Above all these essays offer a challenge to current negative stereotypes of the Muslim faith, demonstrating that the religion is not characterised by political militancy nor dominated by static traditionalism.
650			_a Muslims -- India _91115
650			_aMuslims -- Pakistan _91116
700			_aMETCALF (Barbara D) _91117
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