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Princeton readings in religions

Guidance, sharia, and law. Ibn Battuta as a Qadi in the Maldives / Barbara D. Metcalf

Guiding the ruler and prince / Muzaffar Alam

A colonial court defines a Muslim / Alan M. Guenther

Maulana Thanawi's fatwa on the limits of parental rights over children / Fareeha Khan

Shari'at governance in colonial and postcolonial India / Ebrahim Moosa

Two Sufis on molding the new Muslim woman : Khwaja Hasan Nizami (1878-1955) and Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) / Marcia Hermansen

Fatwa advice on proper Muslim names / Muhammad Khalid Masud

A rallying cry for Muslim personal law : the Shah Bano case and its aftermath / Sylvia Vatuk

Belonging. Forest clearing and the growth of Islam in Bengal / Richard Eaton

Challenging the Mughal emporer : the Islamic millennium according to 'Abd al-Qadir Badayuni / Ahmed Azfar Moin

Custom and conversion in Malabar : Zayn al-Din al-Malibari's Gift of the Mujahidin : some accounts of the Portuguese / Engseng Ho

Muslim league appeals to the voters of Punjab for support of Pakistan / David Gilmartin

Advocating a secular Pakistan : the Munir report of 1954 / Asad Ahmed

Maulana Yusuf Ludhianvi on the limits of legitimate religious differences / Naveeda Khan

The Indian Jama'at-i Islami reconsiders secular democracy / Irfan Ahmad.

Introduction: A historical overview of Islam in South Asia / Barbara D. Metcalf

Devotion and praise : to Allah, Muhammad, imams, and elders. Satpanthi Ismaili songs to Hazrat Ali and the imams / Ali S. Asani

The soul's quest in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's Hindavi romance / Aditya Behl

Pilgrimage to the shrines in Ajmer / Catherine B. Asher

Women's grinding and spinning songs of devotion in the late medieval deccan / Richard Eaton

Qawwali songs of praise / Syed Akbar Hyder and Carla Petievich

Na't : media contexts and transnational dimensions of a devotional practice / Patrick Eisenlohr

Shi'i mourning in Muhurram : Nauha laments for children killed at Karbala / Syed Akbar Hyder and Carla Petievich

Islam and the devotional image in Pakistan / Jamal J. Elias

Holy and exemplary lives. Ibn Battuta meets Shah Jalal al-Din Tabrize in Bengal / Barbara D. Metcalf

Narratives of the life of Haider Shaykh in Punjab / Anna Bigelow

The daily life of a saint, Ahmad Sirhindi, by Badr al-Din Sirhindi / Carl Ernst

Sufi ritual practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P. : Nuri Miyan's life and 'Urs, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries / Usha Sanyal

Transgressions of a holy fool : a majzub in colonial India / Nile Green

The transmission of learning. Saving Tamil Muslims from the torments of hell : Vannapparimalappulavar's book of one thousand questions / Ronit Ricci

The Taqwiyyat al-Iman (support of the faith) by Shah Isma'il Shahid / Barbara D. Metcalf

The brilliance of hearts : Hajji Imdadullah teaches meditation and ritual / Scott Kugle

Studying hadith in a Madrasa in the early twentieth century / Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Jihad in the way of God : a Tablighi Jama'at account of a mission in India / Barbara D. Metcalf

A college girl gives a Qur'an lesson in Bangladesh / Maimuna Huq

Project Muse.