Mappila Muslim Culture by Roland E. Miller - 9781438456003

Mappila Muslim CultureHow a Historic Muslim Community in India Has Blended Tradition and Modernity\nAuthor(s): Roland E. Miller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438456003, 978-1438456003\nSynopsis\nThorough exploration of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims of Kerala, India.\n\nThis book provides a comprehensive account of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims, a large community from the southern Indian state of Kerala. Although they were the first Muslim community in South Asia, the Mappilas are little-known in the West. Roland E. Miller explores the Mappilas' fourteen-century-long history of social adaptation and their current status as a successful example of Muslim interaction with modernity. Once feared, now admired, Kerala's Mappilas have produced an intellectual renaissance and renewed their ancient status as a model of social harmony. Miller provides an acc.