Date: 2023
Type: Article
The multiple registers of Arabic in the Daudi Bohra Da'wa and South Asian public life, c. 1880–1920
International journal of Middle East studies, 2023, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 152-158
O'SULLIVAN, Michael, The multiple registers of Arabic in the Daudi Bohra Da'wa and South Asian public life, c. 1880–1920, International journal of Middle East studies, 2023, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 152-158
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In 1917, an Arabic treatise was published by the recently inaugurated Daudi Bohra dāʿī al-muṭlaq (chief cleric), Tahir Sayf al-Din (r. 1915–65). In the work, entitled Dawʾ Nur al-Haqq al-Mubin (The Brilliance of the Light of Transparent Truth), the dāʿī not only underscored his monopoly of religious interpretation in the Daudi Bohra community, but also engaged in a series of jibes against Sunnis and Shiʿis.1 As the book gained a wider readership beyond the confines of the Daudi Bohra community, several cities in Gujarat were beset by public campaigns against the dāʿī and his followers. Handbills in Gujarati and Urdu were disseminated challenging the dāʿī to a disputation and calling for his censure. Arabic, Persian, and Urdu fatwas were also penned castigating the dāʿī for engaging in what his detractors regarded as takfīr (excommunication).
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Published online: 14 April 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76237
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/S0020743823000430
ISSN: 0020-7438; 1471-6380
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025)
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