Contents:
Part 1. Representing self and other. Epic and counter-epic in medieval India / Aziz Ahmad ;
Islamic thought in relation to the Indian context / Yohanan Friedmann ;
A medieval encounter between Hindu and Muslim : Eknath's drama-poem Hindu-Turk Saṃvād / Eleanor Zelliot ;
Inscribing the other, inscribing the self : Hindu-Muslim identities in pre-colonial India / Cynthia Talbot;
pt. 2 Religion and political power. The nobility under Akbar and the development of his religious policy, 1560-80 / Iqtidar Alam Khan; Jizya and the state in India during the seventeenth century / Satish Chandra ;
The sociology of political engagement : the Mahdawiyah and the state / Derryl N. MacLean;
pt. 3. History, literature, and law. Some general characteristics analysed / Peter Hardy ;
The magic doe : desire and narrative in a Hindavi Sufi romance, circa 1503 / Aditya Behl ;
Hanafi Fiqh in Mughal India : the Fatāwá-i ʻĀlamgīrī / Alan M. Guenther;
pt. 4. Sufi and Shiʻi traditions. The Sufi Shaikh as a source of authority in medieval India / Simon Digby ;
The political and religious authority of the shrine of Baba Farid / Richard M. Eaton ;
Creating tradition through devotional songs and communal script : the Khojah Ismaʻilis of South Asia / Ali S. Asani ;
Popular Shīʻism / J.R.I. Cole;
pt. 5. Islam in the regions. The impact of Islam on Kashmir in the Sultanate period (1320-1586) / Mohammad Ishaq Khan ;
In search of equivalence : conceiving the Muslim-Hindu encounter through translation theory / Tony K. Stewart ;
Religious vocabulary and regional identity : a study of the Tamil Cīṛāppurāṇam ('Life of the Prophet') / Vasudha Narayanan.