{"product_id":"pan-islamic-connections-christophe-jaffrelot-9780190862985","title":"Pan-Islamic Connections: Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf","description":"South Asia is today the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims---roughly 500 million. In the course of the Islamisation process, which begaun in the eighth century, it developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilisation that culminated in the Mughal Empire. While paying lip service to the power centres of Islam in the Gulf, including Mecca and Medina, this civilisation has cultivated its own variety of Islam, based on Sufism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the last fifty years, pan-Islamic ties have intensified between these two regions. Gathering together some of the best specialists on the subject, this volume explores these ideological, educational and spiritual networks, which have gained momentum due to political strategies, migration flows and increased communications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt stake are both the resilience of the civilisation that imbued South Asia with a specific identity, and the relations between Sunnis and Shias in a region where Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting a cultural proxy war, as evident in the foreign ramifications of sectarianism in Pakistan. Pan-Islamic Connections investigates the nature and implications of the cultural, spiritual and socio-economic rapprochement between these two Islams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christophe Jaffrelot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019086298X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190862985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Christophe Jaffrelot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054626468095,"sku":"9780190862985","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9647b628-6b61-4394-9b4d-5b229b4de747.jpg?v=1685031045","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pan-islamic-connections-christophe-jaffrelot-9780190862985","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}