Introduction | p. 1 |
Contestation in the religious sphere | p. 2 |
Contrasting trajectories | p. 8 |
Life | p. 13 |
The intellectual milieu of Deoband | p. 15 |
A madrasa career | p. 17 |
A spiritual crisis? | p. 21 |
At the Sufi lodge | p. 25 |
The Khanaqah's scholars | p. 29 |
Overlapping communities | p. 31 |
Muslim Nationhood | p. 35 |
Indian politics in the early twentieth century | p. 35 |
Thanawi and the Khilafat Movement | p. 39 |
Muslim separatism in India | p. 45 |
The prophet and the king | p. 52 |
Colonial Law | p. 57 |
Apostasy in British India | p. 57 |
The Consummate Stratagem | p. 62 |
The fight against custom | p. 65 |
Conflicting authorities | p. 69 |
Sufism in a Time of Change | p. 79 |
The Sufi and the jurist | p. 79 |
The rhetoric of reconciliation | p. 84 |
Ambiguity and flexibility | p. 87 |
Training the wayfarer | p. 90 |
A shared language | p. 95 |
The Ambiguities of a Legacy | p. 105 |
Sufism | p. 105 |
Law | p. 107 |
Politics | p. 116 |
Thanawi and the Deobandi scholarly tradition | p. 121 |
Bibliography | p. 127 |
Index | p. 135 |
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