Jinnealogy
Jinnealogy
EDITOR
Thomas Blom Hansen
EDITORIAL BOARD
Sanjib Baruah
Anne Blackburn
Satish Deshpande
Faisal Devji
Christophe Jaffrelot
Naveeda Khan
Stacey Leigh Pigg
Mrinalini Sinha
Ravi Vasudevan
JINNEALOGY
Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought
in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
S TA N F O R D U N I V ER S I T Y P R ES S
S TA N F O R D, CA LI F O R N I A
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
©2018 by Anand Vivek Taneja. All rights reserved.
Awarded the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences by the
American Institute of Indian Studies and published with the Institute’s
generous support.
AIIS Publication Committee:
Susan S. Wadley, Brian A. Hatcher, Co-chairs
Joyce B. Flueckiger, Pika Ghosh, Mytheli Sreenivas, Ramnarayan S. Rawat
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Taneja, Anand Vivek, 1980– author.
Title: Jinnealogy : time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins
of Delhi / Anand Vivek Taneja.
Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017. |
Series: South Asia in motion | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017012270 (print) | LCCN 2017014062 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781503603950 (e-book) | ISBN 9781503601796 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781503603936 (pbk. :alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Jinn—India—Delhi. | Islam—India—Delhi. | Muslim
saints—India—Delhi. | Islamic antiquities—India—Delhi. |
Islam—Relations—Hinduism. | Delhi (India)—Religious life and customs.
Classification: LCC BP63.I42 (ebook) | LCC BP63.I42 T363 2017 (print) |
DDC 297.3/9095456—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012270
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