The ulama in contemporary Islam: custodians of change

FOREWORD ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii Introduction 1 I: Islamic Law and the 'Ulama in Colonial India: A Legal Tradition in Transition 17 II: Constructions of Authority 38 III: The Rhetoric of Reform and the Religious Sphere 60 IV: Conceptions of the Islamic State 87 V: Refashioning Identities 111 VI: Religiopolitical Activism and the 'Ulama: Comparative Perspectives 144 Epilogue: The 'Ulama in the Twenty-First Century 181 NOTES 193 GLOSSARY 259 BIBLIOGRAPHY 263 INDEX 287