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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Taneja, Anand Vivek (1980-....)
Titre(s) : Jinnealogy [Texte imprimé] : time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi / Anand Vivek Taneja
Publication : Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford university press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-313 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : South Asia in motion
Lien à la collection : South Asia in motion
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 277-305. 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
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins
of Delhi
Sujet(s) : Djinns -- Inde -- Delhi (Inde)
Islam -- Inde -- Delhi (Inde)
Antiquités islamiques -- Inde -- Delhi (Inde)
Islam -- Relations -- Hindouisme
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781503601796. - ISBN 150360179X. - ISBN 9781503603936. - ISBN 1503603938. -
ISBN 9781503603950 (erroné) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45332099p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45332099
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : walking away from the theater of history ; Jinnealogy : archival
amnesia and Islamic theology in post-partition Delhi ; Saintly visions : the ethics
of elsewhen ; Strange(r)ness ; Desiring women ; Translation ; Stones, snakes,
and saints : remembering the vanished sacred geographies of Delhi ; The shifting
enchantments of ruins and laws in Delhi ; Conclusion : remnants of despair; traces
of hope.
