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Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia
Author:
Geoffrey Nash
ISBN:
9789395474085
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
344
Size:
16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:
684 grams
Price:
INR
2195
1976.00
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About the Book
Analyses modernity and Orientalist discourses in Iranian millenarian movements.
• Employs historical and discourse analysis to probe the conflict between orthodox and heterodox religious movements in 19th- and 20th-century Iran.• Links the conflict between orthodoxy and heterodoxy to the impact of modernity on Iran’s society and religion and to colonisation on India’s Muslims.• Broadens the scope of this conflict to include Palestine, Central Asia and Turkey.• Presents a postcolonial analysis of the new movements and their broader relationship to the Islamic world during the age of imperialism.
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity
explores the emergence of the revolutionary Babis and reformist Baha’is and their conflict with mainstream Shi’a Muslims in Iran, and of the parallel Ahmadi movement in North India. It gives fresh insights into the writings that defined these innovatory movements, penned on the one hand by their proponents, and on the other by western interpreters.Comparing these movements shows that, together, they define important aspects of Islamic modernity. A focus on two case studies (Babis and Baha’is in Iran, and Ahmadis in India) reveals similarities and differences in their responses to a perceived need for change and renewal of religious authority.
About the Author
Geoffrey Nash
Formerly Associate Professor at the University of Qatar and Research Associate at the School of African and Oriental Studies. He works in the areas of Postcolonial Studies, Travel Writing, Arab Anglophone and Muslim writing. Among the many books he has authored/edited are:
Orientalism and Literature
(Cambridge University Press, 2019),
Marmaduke Pickthall, Islam and the Modern World
(Brill, 2017),
Writing Muslim Identity
(Continuum, 2012),
Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism
(Routledge, 2009) and
From Empire to Orient: Travellers to the Middle East
(I.B. Tauris, 2005).
Editorial Reviews
“This remarkable study of nineteenth-century capitalist and colonial workplace paternalism combines diverse historiographies with a dizzying range of cross-disciplinary knowledges and approaches, including literary theory, studies of affect and emotions, science and technology studies, feminist theory, and Marxism (classical and contemporary). The result is a brilliantly executed analysis of the consequences of capitalist industrialization for particular gender regimes, patterns of social authority, modes of racialist understanding, and the rise of a liberal-imperial governing order. Mattie Armstrong-Price is that rarest of intellectuals: the historian’s historian who is simultaneously a theory head. This book is compelling confirmation that the largest-scale problems can be meticulously brought down to imaginatively conceived, empirically focused, and concretely illuminated microhistorical ground.”
—Geoff Eley, author of
History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past
“A rich, comparative history of how ideologies of labor and management shaped histories of gender and social reproduction across political and racial hierarchies.
Respectability on the Line
tells a compelling story about how paternalism, colonialism, and capitalism materialized in the intimate and domestic lives of railway workers to shape collective action and class formation in India and Britain.”
—Ritika Prasad, author of
Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India
“This is a timely and welcome addition to the history of railway labor and capitalism. Intertwining histories of metropolitan Britain and colonial India, this empirically rich narrative uses respectability as a conceptual category to understand how labor relations were shaped across railway sites.
Respectability on the Line
uniquely converges otherwise analytically disparate terrains of colonial/imperial and British history as a ‘unified, if uneven field of historical activity.’ The focus on gender, race, and labor underlines the fault lines through which railway capitalism and labor relations were shaped at ‘home’ and in a colonial milieu. Rigorously researched, this book provides a unique lens for understanding complex and intertwined accounts of labor and capitalism.”
—Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, author of
Imperial Technology and “Native” Agency: A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850–1920
“Armstrong-Price brilliantly reshapes labor history to show a gendered and racialized tradition of paternalism operating in imperial and metropolitan spaces of the Victorian state, where managers cultivated respectability, workers stretched the parameters of respectability in non-heteronormative ways, and local workers turned to Indian nationalist leaders to denounce the fictions of this respectable paternalism and expose discrimination.”
—Judith R. Walkowitz, author of
Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London
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