Reviews
"This book's contribution to Islamic thought is to suggest a fresh look at the world's traditional compartmentalization into dar al-Islam and dar al-harb." "Its strength is its honest attempt to explore Hindu-Muslim interactions in a traditional matrix, which includes overlapping Islamic and Indic frameworks." - American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
--American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
" The significance of this volume goes well beyond South Asian studies." ; " Has much by way of comparative interest to offer to scholars and students of other pre-modern Muslim societies. This volume also suggests new ways of understanding how religious identities were articulated and negociated in pre-modern societies, even as it provides rich resources with which to compare such processes in the modern world."
--Journal of Islamic Studies
"Anyone wishing to understand the complexities and fusions of medieval India would be well advised to look at Beyond Turk and Hindu, edited by David Gilmartin and Bruce Lawrence, (University Press of Florida, 2000). A collection of articles by all leading international scholars of the period, it shows the degree to which the extraordinary richness of medieval Indian civilisation was the direct result of its multi-ethnic, multi-religious character, and the inspired interplay and cross-fertilisation of Hindu and Islamic civilisations that thereby took place."
--Guardian
"An excellent collection."
"Beyond Turk and Hindu has recently updated the idea of the "composite culture
--The New York Review of Books
"An excellent collection of essays."
""Beyond Turk and Hindu has recently updated the idea of the 'composite culture.' The book shows the degree to which the richness of medieval Indian culture was the direct result of the inspired cross-fertilization of Indian and Islamic civilizations."
--The New York Review of Books