From Religious to Social Conversion: How Muslim Scholars Conceived of the "Rites de Passage" from Hinduism to Islam in Seventeenth-Century South Asia

Autor/in	Khalfaoui, Mouez
Titel	From Religious to Social Conversion: How Muslim Scholars Conceived of the "Rites de Passage" from Hinduism to Islam in Seventeenth-Century South Asia
Quelle	In: Journal of Beliefs & Values, 32 (2011) 1, S.85-93 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-7672
Schlagwörter	Muslims; Religion; Islam; Foreign Countries; Beliefs; Religious Factors; Laws; Attitude Change; Case Studies; Social Structure; Social Attitudes; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Muslim; Muslimin; Ausland; Belief; Glaube; Law; Recht; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Sozialstruktur; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Asien
Abstract	The common understanding of Islam tends to consider religious conversion as a matter of individual and rational belief and consisting, first and foremost, of attesting to the oneness of God ("shahada"). In this paper I argue that divergences exist among schools of Islamic Law concerning the modes and types of conversion. Contrary to Muslim jurists in the first centuries of Islam, jurists from later epoques shifted the debate about Islamic conversion from a theoretical and individual attitude towards conversion to include more practical and collective considerations. I refer to this change in attitude as a change from "religious" to "social" conversion. Taking the Fatawa al-Hindiyya al-'Alamjiriyya, a compendium of Islamic law from seventeenth-century South Asia, as a case study, I argue that the structure of South Asian society impacted seventeenth-century Muslim jurists' perspective regarding conversion to Islam. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10