Devotion and praise: to Allah, Muhammad, imams, and elders: Islam and the devotional image in Pakistan -- Holy and exemplary lives: Sufi ritual practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P.: Nuri Miyan's life and 'Urs, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries -- The transmission of learning: Jihad in the way of God: a Tablighi Jama'at account of a mission in India ; A college girl gives a Qur'an lesson in Bangladesh -- Guidance, sharia, and law: A colonial court defines a Muslim ; Shari'at governance in colonial and postcolonial India -- Belonging: Forest clearing and the growth of Islam in Bengal ; Challenging the Mughal emporer : the Islamic millennium according to 'Abd al-Qadir Badayuni ; Muslim league appeals to the voters of Punjab for support of Pakistan ; The Indian Jama'at-i Islami reconsiders secular democracy

1. Islam -- South Asia