La sociologie de l'engagement politique : le Mahdawîya indien et l'État
This paper examines the interpretative capacity and political volatility of the Mahdawîya movement founded by Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpûrî (1443-1505) which spread widely across South Asia. The movement's engagement with the Mughal state, it is argued, varied with social location, moving from jihad...
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Université de Provence
2000-07-01
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| description | This paper examines the interpretative capacity and political volatility of the Mahdawîya movement founded by Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpûrî (1443-1505) which spread widely across South Asia. The movement's engagement with the Mughal state, it is argued, varied with social location, moving from jihad activism to hijra communal withdrawal, a process requiring continual reinterpretation of texts. The paper challenges the notion that Mahdism, unlike other millennialisms, must necessarily engage in activist jihâd against the state, a perspective rooted in Orientalist assumptions concerning the importance of the state and the primacy to Muslim action of Islâmic formative texts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-936bd0f1d71340d5a3b0ab8abf2f03222025-01-09T13:23:09ZengUniversité de ProvenceRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée0997-13272105-22712000-07-01919423925610.4000/remmm.258La sociologie de l'engagement politique : le Mahdawîya indien et l'ÉtatDerryl N. MacLeanThis paper examines the interpretative capacity and political volatility of the Mahdawîya movement founded by Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpûrî (1443-1505) which spread widely across South Asia. The movement's engagement with the Mughal state, it is argued, varied with social location, moving from jihad activism to hijra communal withdrawal, a process requiring continual reinterpretation of texts. The paper challenges the notion that Mahdism, unlike other millennialisms, must necessarily engage in activist jihâd against the state, a perspective rooted in Orientalist assumptions concerning the importance of the state and the primacy to Muslim action of Islâmic formative texts.https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/258 |
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| title | La sociologie de l'engagement politique : le Mahdawîya indien et l'État |
| title_full | La sociologie de l'engagement politique : le Mahdawîya indien et l'État |
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| title_full_unstemmed | La sociologie de l'engagement politique : le Mahdawîya indien et l'État |
| title_short | La sociologie de l'engagement politique : le Mahdawîya indien et l'État |
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