Can ‘Om’ be an Islamic term? Translations, encounters, and Islamic discourse in vernacular South Asia.

This article aims at offering a critique of recent approaches to the study of vernacular Islamic literature in South Asia through examples taken from Islamic literature composed in Tamil. First, the article argues that many approaches tend to re-inscribe essentialised religious differences by assumi...

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Publicado en:South Asian History & Culture Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 195 - 212
Autor principal: Tschacher, Torsten
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2014
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