Yoginder Sikand, a scholar whose transnational work on Islamist movements is what I’m most familiar with, has an interesting article on Hindu followers of Imam Husayn. The piece is mostly historical, but the last paragraph is interesting: The Hussaini Brahmins, along with other Hindu devotees of the Muslim Imam, are today a rapidly vanishing community. The younger generation abandoning their ancestral heritage, often now seen as embarrassingly deviant. No longer, it seems, can a comfortable liminality be sustained, and ambiguous identities seem crushed under the relentless pressure to conform to the logic of neatly demarcated ‘Hindu’ and ‘Muslim’ communities. And…
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Olá a todos. Gostaria de contar com a vossa presença no II.º encontro nacional de bloggers a decorrer na Serra da Estrela no dia 22 de Abril. O prazo final das inscrições é no dia 15 de Abril. A todos os interessados em participar, devem ir ao blog http://oceanodepalavras.blogspot.com e lá verem o que é necessário fazer para efectuarem a vossa inscrição. Um abraço e bjinhos para todos. Conto connvosco