Skip to content
  • About
  • Submissions
  • Contact
Maydan
  • Islamic Thought
    • Contemporary Islamic Thought
    • Islamic Law
    • Qur’anic Studies
  • Arts & Culture
    • Film
    • Music
    • Material Culture
    • Exhibits
  • Reviews
    • Book Presentations
    • Review Articles
  • Politics & Society
    • Anthropology
    • From the Field
    • Minority Issues
  • Teaching & Learning
    • Reading Suggestions
    • Syllabi
  • BAMI
  • Podcast
An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

India and Islam

[Book Review] Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India by Tanweer Fazal (Three Essays Collective, 2024). Reviewed by Rushnae Kabir

By Rushnae Kabir  //  September 5, 2026

Since 2014, substantial ink has been spilled on chronicling, explaining, and contesting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s predominance in national politics in India. Scholars have studied the ever-intensifying waves of anti-minority violence in the country,…

[Book Review] Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

By Andrew Amstutz  //  February 15, 2018July 4, 2018

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst’s Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad explores how revolts in 1857 and 1858 in India profoundly shaped the conceptualization of Muslims as a distinct minority community in…

More Profiles


In Memoriam: Roy Mottahedeh [ Contributions by Arafat Razzaque, Han Hsien Liew, Sumaiya Hamdani]



An Islamic Scholar, a Muslim Queen, and South Asian Family Archives



In Memoriam: Cornell Fleischer (1950-2023)


See All Profiles

Recent Posts

  • [Book Review] Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India by Tanweer Fazal (Three Essays Collective, 2024). Reviewed by Rushnae Kabir
  • [PODCAST] A Common Word | EP 12 – Younus Mirza with Paul Heck | Emotions in Islam
  • [Deadline October 1] Call for Papers: Ninth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium
  • [Book Review] Dust That Never Settles Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War by Amir Moosavi | Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025). Reviewed by Thuraya Abdulateef
  • Resourcing Ritualization: Transference and Spiritual Sovereignty in the Islamic Tradition
GMU Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic StudiesAfter MalcolmBridging Cultures - Muslim Journeys BookshelfOur Shared Past in the MediterraneanThe Muslim Atlantic
Maydan

An online publication of AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

  • About
  • Submissions
  • Contact