Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India

ISBN-13: 9780700702107 / Twarda / 1995 / 352 str.

Avril Ann Powell

Opis

Focusing on the period from 1830 to 1857, this book discusses the confrontation of Evangelical Christianity and Islam in northern India during the last century. It shows how the confrontation developed from a friendly exchange of ideas to the animosity which marked the 1857 meeting.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DEBATE: THE MEDIEVAL LEGACY OF MUNAZARA; Chapter 2 THE INDIAN SETTING: MUSLIM HEARTLANDS IN THE MUGHAL TWILIGHT; Chapter 3 EVANGELICALISM AND INDIA: MISSIONARY EXPANSION IN NORTHERN INDIA; Chapter 4 CONTACT, CONVERSION AND CONTROVERSY: THE FIRST MUSLIM RESPONSES; Chapter 5 NEW FOCUS ON ISLAM: THE REVEREND CARL PFANDER AND THE MIZAN AL-HAQQ (BALANCE OF TRUTH); Chapter 6 MUSLIM RETALIATION: AGRA AND LUCKNOW IN THE 1840S; Chapter 7 NEW MOOD IN DELHI: THE EMERGENCE OF MAULANA RAHMAT ALLAH KAIRANAWI; Chapter 8 OPEN CONFLICT IN AGRA: THE ‘GREAT DEBATE' OF 1854; Chapter 9 CONCLUSIONS: INDIAN MUNAZARA IN THE LONGER-TERM PERSPECTIVE GLOSSARY; Bibliography Index;

O autorze

Avril A. Powell