From religious to social conversion: how Muslim scholars conceived of the Rites de Passage from Hinduism to Islam in seventeenth‐century South Asia
The common understanding of Islam tends to consider religious conversion as a matter of individual and rational belief and consisting, first and foremost, of attesting to the oneness of God (shahāda). In this paper I argue that divergences exist among schools of Islamic Law concerning the modes and...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2011
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Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2011, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-93 |
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B Islam B Hindu system of castes B Alamjir B Hanafi law B Conversion B rite de passage |
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