Gentry in South Asia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Gentry in South Asia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Malik, Jamal

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061731
Doc. NO	:	ALei2128
Main Entry	:	Malik, Jamal
Title & Author	:	Gentry in South Asia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Malik, Jamal
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,897 words)
Abstract	:	Early Muslim social differentiations in South Asia developed into caste categories and, by early modern times, even reflected structural analogies to the highly stratified Hindu varṇa system with regard to legal punishments that favoured the gentry (ashrāf , pl. shurafāʾ) , as laid out in the Fatāwā-yi ʿĀlamgīrī . Competition amongst various interest groups in South Asia led, over the course of time, to numerous divisions in the social composition of an arguably egalitarian Islam in a hierarchical Hindu majority social system. 1. The emergence of social differentiation Early Muslim social differentiations,
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2128.pdf