Perilous Intimacies

Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion Longlist, 2024 Karwaan Book Award, Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they negotiate the incongruities between foundational texts and att