[Linganth] today on the blog -- The Gabriel of Madness

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Anand Vivek Taneja discusses his new book, The Gabriel
of Madness: Islamic Poetry and Ethics in an Age of Hindu Nationalism with
Rushnae Kabir.

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www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:  Since a right-wing Hindu nationalist government came to power
in 2014, Indian Muslims have faced rampant Islamophobia, lynchings and mob
violence, discriminatory legislation, and economic ostracism. How have
Indian Muslims—the largest religious minority in the world’s largest
democracy—responded to the failures and demise of state secularism? Using
the lens of Urdu poetry, this beautiful ethnography explores how Indian
Muslims have drawn upon Islamic traditions to actualize free-thinking
selves and imagine a pluralistic society unbeholden to coercive state
power. Through poetic symposiums, interviews, social media, and deep
conversations with diverse Muslim interlocutors, from religious leaders to
politicians, civil society activists to poets, Anand Vivek Taneja paints a
portrait of the vitality of Indian Muslim artistic, ethical, and spiritual
life at a moment of existential crisis.
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