Perilous Intimacies

SherAli Tareen explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

Foreword, by Faisal Devji
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Promise and Peril of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
1. Translating the "Other": Early Modern Muslim Understandings of Hinduism
2. Deciding the "True" God: Miracle Wars and Interreligious Polemics
3. Friendship and Sovereign Fantasies
4. The Cow and the Caliphate
5. The Contagion of Imitation: A Select Genealogy
6. The Aligarh-Deoband Divide: Competing Rationalities of Reform in Muslim South Asia
Epilogue
Appendix: Suggestions and Discussion Questions for Teaching This Book
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index