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Some Basics: Islam
➢ Prophet muhammed (570-632)
○ There is one gd & Mfd is his prophet
○ Was a merchant who started seeing visions and was known as the
angel gabriel
➢ Quaran & Hadith (Reports , traditions)
○ Muhammad recites words that are in quran
○ Reports about what muhammad had said or done
○ Only for specific group of men called ‘Ulama who have memorized
the Quran and what the prophet muhammad has said
○ Islam emerges through the quran but only a small portion call
ulama has access to the text
○ Hadith is not as high as Quran
➢ Arabic ( then persian, turkish, urdu, etc.)
○ Original language of written islamic
○ Urdu was the most widespread and spoken arabic language
➢ Sharia & customary law
○ The broad way or path
○ Religous law
○ The law of how muslims should be behaved that were created by
‘Ulama after reading the quran
➢ Ahl al-Kitab (people of the book)
○ Had their own book but didnt have the same rights as muslims(?)
➢ ‘Ulma (learned) & Sufi (friend of gd)
○ ‘Ulama have authority to tell things what to do based on what they
read in Quran
○ Sufi is other group of religious
○ Sufis source of religious authority from having a personal
connection with allah or gd (through religious practices, chanting
➢ Christianity evolved into different versions (religions change and many
versions adopt)
➢ Just because rulers were muslim that doesnt mean they enforced muslim
law and the ‘ulama were sometimes in conflict because they believed
some people weren’t enforcing the islamic law
➢ Within india itself the muslims are a minority but later the muslims were
ruling the hindus
➢ Means men of learned
➢ ‘Ulama learned arabic from Quran
➢ Sufi wore wool to punish body to cultivate their soul as a form of
punishment from gd
Class 2: Oct 5 (week 1)
➢ Awliya allah: friends of gd
➢ Barakat: gds grace
○ Sufi’s would believe they would have barakat by their side
➢ Muslim expansion by 661
○ Muhammad’s lifetime emerged in Mecca and Medina
○ By 661 Muhammad’s followers after his death was expanding
➢ Some Basics: India
○ South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
○ Ethnic & religious diversity
○ Hindu & other religions
■ A way to describe the people of India
○ Wealth: commerce & agriculture
○ Many independent states
○ USA of pre-modern world
■ Attracting all kinds of people from all around the world
➢ India in Islamic Asia
○ Central
➢ Islam in South Asia Generalities
○ Powerful ruling minority (c. 1000-1750)
■ The ruling groups of south asia had been muslims
○ Not periphery: Qubbat al-Islam (canopy)
■ Muslims did not see themselves/Islam as being second best
○ Muslim Diversity
■ Comprised different social,ethnic, and ruling groups
➢ Islam in South Asia: Beginnings
○ Trade
○ Conquest
○ Migration
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■ Many people migrate to india because it like a pre-modern
u.s
■ Encouraged men of learning to migrate to become burocrats
of persians
○ Conversion
○ Hence, contact, interaction, & exchange
○ So, we should historize Islam & Muslims
Not important
○ UmayyadsL Muhammad bin Qasim (711)
○ Ghaznavids (977-1186) Truks from Afg
○ Ghurids (c. 100-1215): Persians from Afg
○ Delhi Sultans (1206-1526)
■ Mamluks, Khaljis, Tughluqs (all turks), Sayyids (arabs), &
Lodis (Afghans)
Qutb Minar & Quwwat al-Islam Mosque Delhi (built 1199-1386)
○ Great big center
Tomb of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq Sultan of Delhi
○ These big tomb shows wealth of power
○ dargah
Shrine of Nizam al-Din Awilya (d. 1325) Sufi of Chishti Order (Delhi)
○ Really expensive
○ dargah
Faqir: a poor man
Dargah: Means court (royal court)
Islam in South Asia Dynasties & Power
○ The Mughal Empire (1562- 1858
■ Central Asian mongols
■ Persian and Persianate Culture
● Persian was important for a majority of studies
■ Unify most of India
■ Composite court culture
■ Muslim Empire?
● Empire ruled by Muslim
■ Fragment after Awrangzeb
● “Great” mongols
Mughal Empire at Greatest Extent
Tomb of Emperor Humayun (d. 1556) Delhi
Emperor Akbar Capital Fatehpur Sikri
○ Has a huge gateway
➢ Akbar’s ‘Ibadat-Khana (house of worship)
➢ Taj Mahal- Quranic Inscriptions
➢ Powerful H
indu women
Class 3 : Oct 10 (week 2)
➢ Muslims are powerful ruling minority
➢ Rise of Muslim power
○ Delhi Sultans
○ Mughal Emperors
➢ The Taj Mahal
○ Built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan 1648
➢ Key characteristics of Indian Islam
○ Authorities
○ Institutions
➢ Effect on muslims of the rise of British (east indian company) power
➢ Key questions?
○ What were the main characteristics of Indian Islam before British
colonialization?
➢ Speaking for Islam
○ Who Controls Islam (and being muslim)?
■ Authority: Who defines Islam?….implications?
○ Authroity: Who defines who is a Muslim?….implications?
○ Authority: Who defines the community?…implications?
➢ Contextualizing Islam
○ Religious Change is driven by authoritative ‘agents’
○ Religious authority and agency vested in:
■ People (social actors)— a way of make change happen
■ Places (social institutions)– implies a way of organization
and can last longer by gathering information and power
■ Texts (but controlled by actors and institutions)
○ Examine socio-political position of religious agents
■ Sources of authority, scope of influence, causes of rivalry
➢ Islam in (Pre-Colonial) South asia
○ The Islam of the Sufis
■ Huge influence of Sufi saints & shrines
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● Claim authority through their direct relationship with
gd
● Overtime the sufis from one generation to another
inherited the claims of fathers and grandfathers
● Sufis gathered institutional wealth over centuries
■ Claim to be living ‘heirs of the prophet’
■ Complex theology & mystical/love poetry
● Mystical poetry is written in a way of love songs
● A way to express their religious theology
■ Miracle-workers (karamat: miracle)
● Close relationship with gd and claim to be aid of
prophet muhammad
■ Shrines (dargahs), rituals & pilgrimages
■ Music (qawwali) & Festivals (‘urs)
● Were like grand weddings that the rich and poor can
come too
● How sufis gathered so many followers
■ Womens Islam
■ Encourage interactions with Hindus
Graves that give miracles (karamet)
○ Sufi shrine of baha al-Din, Multon
Limited social influence of “men of learning” (Islam of ‘uluma)
Claim to be sole interpreters of Quran & Hadith
Control over islams law (Shari’a)
○ ‘Uluman believe that if you want to be part of muslim religion you
need to follow these laws
Social reproduction via madrasa colleges
Islam of Ululma
○ Limited connections with wider society
○ To get into shrines or madrasa you need to have connections which
were limited
○ Discourage interactions with Hindus
○ Official positions in Muslim-ruled states
■ They get authority if thye able to persuade the prime minister
of sultan
Islam in (pre-Colonial) South Asia: many rival authorities
○ By 1750, there are many rival religious authorities…
○ ‘Ulama or Sufi’s
○ madrasa (school) or Dargah (shrine)
○ universal scripture or local tradition rival sources of authority in a
textual or verbal
Way
■ Arabic, Persian, Urdu, or vernacular sources?
■ Texts or practices?
○ Morality (laws) or charisma (miracles)
➢ Islam in (pre-colonial) South Asia: variable relations with Hindus
○ Variety of Hindus and Hinduisms
○ So, multiple Hinduisms, multiple relations
■ Hindus as strange: al Biruni (d. 1048)
■ Hindus as infidels: Ahmad Sirshindi (d. 1624)
○ Hindus as like Muslim’s; Darad Shikoh (d. 1659) the ultimate
beliefs are similar
○ But Hindus comprise around 75% of the population
Class 4: Oct 12 (week 2)
➢ How important was the state of Indian Islam? (before colonial era)
➢ Historicizing Islam : The impact of colonization
○ Various traditions, institutions, & practices
○ Changing contexts:
■ Rise of brititsh (christian?) political power
■ Fall of muslim political power
■ Tise of new religious authorities (reformers)
■ Competition between religious and authorities
■ Key point: religious as historically contingent
➢ The 18th prelude colonization of the decline of the mughal empire
○ Retraction of imperial center
■ After death of emperor Aurangzeb in 1707
○ Catastrophe and opportunity
○ Crisis of government
○ Crisis of legitimacy
■ For political rulers and authority?
○ Crisis of faith?
➢ Mushal Empire in decline c. 1770
○ Empire starts shrinking
➢ The musclim rule successor states
○ ARCOT (1712-1801)
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○ Bengal (1717-93)
○ Lucknow- awadh/oudh (1722-1856)
○ Hyderabad (1724-1948)
○ Afghan Durrani Empire (India-1747-70
○ Mysone
Rise of Lucjnaw as a shi’ite (Sunni Capital —Bara Imambara (building to perform
shi’ite festivals)
○ Gives a sense of crisis
Rise on non-muslim powers
○ Maratha Hindu Kingdoms (c. 1674-1818)
■ Defeated by British (1775-1818)
○ Sikh Kingdom (199-1849)
■ Deadeated by the british (1845-49)
■ Sikh were ruling in wealthy areas
The end times for Indian Isalm
○ Muslim Delhi’s Darkest hours
■ Maratha Baji Rao I conqueors (1737)
■ Disease poverty, famine, migration
■ Shahr-ahub (urban collapse) poetry
■ Fear of Fitna (sedition, moral collapse)
■ Seclarianism & anti Shi’ite violence
■ Belief in allahs punishment leads to muslim self critique
● They should follow morality and muslim differently because
the way they were doing it before was not right which was
considered a self crititque
In what ways did the rise of the colonial state affect india muslims prior to 1857?
The rise of british rule the arrival of the british east indian company
○ East indian company (ff1600)
○ Based in port city ‘presidencies
■ =calcutta, bombay, madras
○ The british as Islamicate nobobs
○ Persian language use & titles
○ Nautch parties & indian bibis (wives)
○ British persian poets
■ Nawwab-prince
Early Imperial Britons as ‘white mughals’?
Expanision of EIC
○ Epansion from traders to govenors
■ Battle of plassey in Bengal (1757)
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■ Conquest of mysone (1799)
■ Take-over of Delhu (1801)
■ Final Defeat of marathas (1818)
○ Subsidiary alliance system with post mughal states (1798)
○ Replace persians with english administrative language (1837)
The rise pf british rule from cpmpay to direct ruel
○ 1857 indian rebellion (mutiny)
■ Mughal empire abolished (1858)
■ EIC abolished (1858)
■ Direct rule via viceroy in Calcutta
○ 1858-1947=hIGH COLONIAL ERA
■ India integrated into british empire
■ Victoria as empress (qaisar) of India (1876)
● Sepoy?
The Rise of Colonial knowledge: New institutions
○ Asiatic Society of Bengal
○ Fort William College (ff 1800)
○ Eat India college
○ Muslim Teachers translators, Students
○ Muslim teachers, translators, students
Transformation of Muslim society: impact of EIC rule on Ashraf class.
○ Loss/Gain of employment opportunities
○ Changes to landholding rights
○ Changes in cultural patronage
○ Transformation of knowledge institutions
■ Printing
■ School and curricula
■ Language changes (from Persian to Urdu then from Urdu to
English)
■ Scientific learning
The rise of colonial knowledge: new science, new governance
○ New science, mechanical and natural
○ New army, weaponry, discipline
○ New prisons, regulation, punishments
Big question how did these developments affect Islam and Muslims
Did they lead to a Muslim reformation?
○ If so how?
Class 5: Oct 17 (week 3)
Defining Reform:
➢ Islamic reform movements trace their roots to the founding era of Islam
○ Reformers are saying they � …
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