株式会社極東書店トップ商品一覧Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation. New edition

商品詳細

Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation. New edition

Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation. New edition

・ISBN 978-1-4696-1519-6 paper US$ 40.95

¥9,594.- (税込) (※)価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。

お気に入り
著者・編者Uddin, Sufia M.,
シリーズ (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks)
出版社 (The University of North Carolina Press, US)
出版年月2014
ページ数248 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A04-12572>

解説

Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M. Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant moments in the region's history from medieval to modern times, examining the interplay of language, popular and scholarly religious literature, and the colonial experience as they contributed to the creation of a unique Bengali-Islamic identity.

During the precolonial era, Bengali, the dominant regional language, infused the richly diverse traditions of the region, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and, eventually, the Islamic religion and literature brought by Urdu-speaking Muslim conquerors from North India. Islam was not simply imported into the region by the ruling elite, Uddin explains, but was incorporated into local tradition over hundreds of years of interactions between Bengalis and non-Bengali Muslims. Constantly contested and negotiated, the Bengali vision of Islamic orthodoxy and community was reflected in both language and politics, which ultimately produced a specifically Bengali-Muslim culture. Uddin argues that this process in Bangladesh is representative of what happens elsewhere in the Muslim world and is therefore an instructive example of the complex and fluid relations between local heritage and the greater Islamic global community, or umma.