South Asian Islamic Reformists and the Reclaiming of Religio-Political Sovereignty

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the Indian subcontinent bloomed a tremendous amount of distinct, and at times conflicting, theological scholarship about regaining Muslim political sovereignty, much of which remains globally influential to this day. The exchanges between Islamic reform movements and Islamic modernist thinkers about the Indian Independence Movement in 1947 and its subsequent Partition have been largely erased from popular tales of South Asia’s anti-colonial project. The progenitors of these religious movements played important roles in resisting the advent of British colonial rule by articulating the political, cultural, and religious bases for independence. All addressed the central questions of what visions of a Muslim polity were possible and how Muslims ought to regain political sovereignty after the onset of British colonial rule. Placing Islamic reformist, revivalist, and modernist thinkers and movements in conversation with one another highlights how the actualization of these movements’ respective values was foundational in inspiring independence and defining the ways Islam would shape contemporary South Asia.
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Authors Misbah Hyder, Connor B. S. Strobel
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.79
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