Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index.

Introduction -- Asghar 'Ali Engineer's quest for a contextual Islamic theology -- Islam and the Muslim-minority predicament: reflections on the contributions of Sayyed Abul Hasan 'Ali Nadwi -- Peace, dialogue and da'wah: an analysis of the writings of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan -- Islamic Voice's agenda for the Muslims of India -- An Islamist approach to inter-faith dialogue: the Jama'at-i Islami of India -- Islamic perspectives on liberation and dialogue: Muslim writings in Dalit Voice -- The 'Dalit Muslims' and the All-India Backward Muslim Morcha -- Islam and the Dalit quest for liberation in contemporary India -- 'Now or Never!' the inter-faith dialogue project of Acharya Maulana Shams Naved 'Usmani -- The Deendar Anjuman: between dialogue and conflict -- Islamist activism in contemporary India: the Students' Islamic Movement of India -- Kashmir: from national liberation to Islamist jihad?

"Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar activists and Muslim organizations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation-state, and to deal with issues such as democracy and secularism. It examines how a common predicament characterized by a sense of siege and the perception of being an oppressed minority is producing new expressions of Islam, some of which seek to relate to non-Muslims in terms of confrontation, and others which call for dialogue, reconciliation and inter-faith harmony."--Jacket.