2. Sarandib [Asiff Hussein]

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ISBN : 955-97262-2-6
Author : Asiff Hussein
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Publisher : Neptune Publications
Printed by : Printel
Language : English
Pages :  784   Size : 148 x 210 mm      Weight (kg) : 1.110
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Sarandib. An Ethnological Study of the Muslims of Sri Lanka

by Asiff Hussein

Publisher: Neptune Publications; pp:784; B&W & Colour Plates: 54, Price: Rs.2000

Sarandib, an Ethnological Study of the Muslims of Sri Lanka, now in its third expanded edition is a book every Sri Lankan Muslim home must have.

 

Written in a lucid style, it is the culmination of much research, inquiry and field studies on the society and culture of the country’s major Muslim groups, the Moors, Malays, Memons and Muslims of Indian origin who though of different ethnic origins, share the common faith of Islam.

 

The work is multi-disciplinary in scope and contains detailed information on aspects like ethnic origins, language, settlements, customs and traditions, dress and ornamentation, culinary fare, medical remedies, names and titles, occupations, social organization, ceremonial observances and religious and folk beliefs.

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Introductory Note

Although the Muslims of Sri Lanka constitute about 8 percent of the total population of Sri Lanka, numbering around 1.7 million persons, their importance in the national life of the country cannot be estimated by their numbers alone as they play a very important role in the social, cultural and political life of the country. The Muslims of Sri Lanka, though one in faith, comprise largely of three distinct ethnic groups, namely, the Moors, Malays and Memons though there have also existed smaller groups such as the Sammankarar and Mukkuvar who appear to have been amalgamated into the larger Moor community on the basis of a common faith though this process has yet to be completed.

The paucity of detailed literary material pertaining to Sri Lankan Muslim society is regrettable, but has been addressed wherever necessary by the author’s own field inquiries and observations. The field inquiries, personal observations and other findings of the author incorporated in this work span a period of about ten years from 1996 to 2005. Some of the information contained in this work was obtained by the author in the course of various assignments for the Sunday Observer. It contains material published in the Sunday Observer to which reference has been made, as well as unpublished material collected by the author during these visits and which he has thought necessary to include in the present work. In those parts of the work dealing with the subject matter from a contemporary standpoint incorporating as they do, the author’s own inquiries and observations, attention will be drawn whenever possible, to already published material so as to provide some references which could prove useful to the reader and provide a link to the present.

 

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