Understanding the Bengal Muslims : interpretative essays /

Understanding the Bengal Muslims : interpretative essays / Bengal Muslims edited by Rafiuddin Ahmed. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2001. - xiii, 271 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The emergence of the Bengali Muslims / Rafiuddin Ahmed -- Who are the Bengal Muslims? conversion and islamization in Bengal / Richard M. Eaton -- Islam and Vaishnavism in the environment of rural Bengal / Ralph W. Nicholas -- Islam and the social construction of the Bangladesh countryside / Peter J. Bertocci -- The Bengal Muslims and the world of Islam : Pan-Islamic trends in colonial Bengal as reflected in the press / Mohammad Shah -- A Muslim voice in modern Bengali literature : Mir Mosharraf Hosain / Clinton B. Seely -- The changing world of Bengali Muslim women : the "dreams" and efforts of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein / Sonia N. Amin -- Radicalism in Bengali Muslim thought : Kazi Abdul Wadud and the "religion of creativity" / Shahadat H. Khan --The Bengali Muslims and the state : secularism or huamnity for Bangladesh? / Joseph T. O'Connell -- Gender and Islam in Bangladesh : metaphor and myth / Shelley Feldman -- Bengali Muslims and Islamic fundamentalism : the Jama't-i-Islami in Bangladesh / Enayetur Rahim.

Contributed articles.

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