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Conflict Self-Inflicted: Dispute, Incivility, and the Threat of Violence in an Indian Muslim Community.
- Source :
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Journal of Asian Studies . Feb2004, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p61-80. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Investigates how the Muslim community of the Androth Island in India transformed a disagreement regarding Sufi ritual practice into a moral divide that sanctioned a provocative fatwa, mosque expulsions and violence. Factors which contributed to the conflict in the community; Impact of the ethnic and sectarian violence in Delhi, India, Karachi, Pakistan and Colombo, Sri Lanka on the religious conflict among the islanders; Effect of the conflict in the island on the growth of the Indian state.
- Subjects :
- *ETHNIC conflict
*ETHNIC relations
*SUFISM
*INDIAN Muslims
*RELIGION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00219118
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Asian Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 13012478
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911804000063