Barbara D. Metcalf (ed.). Islam in South Asia in Practice

This edited volume contains contributions from scholars of various disciplines, mostly history, anthropology, religious and Islamic studies. Its thirty-four chapters are grouped in five parts, and preceded by a preface and an introduction. In the preface, the editor announces the key methodological issues related to the study of Islam that surface throughout the book; and in the introduction, she provides a historical overview of Islam in South Asia from the seventh century to the period foll..