Barbara D. Metcalf

Husain Ahmad Madani: The Jihad for Islam and India's Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani (1879 - 1957) was a political activist, Islamic scholar, and supporter of Gandhi during the struggle for India's independence. Humane and fiercely dedicated, he campaigned for inter-religious peace. Spanning a lifetime of campaigning and controversy, Metcalf's compelling biography draws from Madani's letters and autobiographies. An intimate and revealing account of one of the most important men in the history of modern Islam.

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A compelling biography of Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, the pre-eminent Muslim scholar and fervent campaigner for democracy and unity in India.

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Produktdetails

• Makers of the Muslim World
• Verlag: ONEWorld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781851685790
• ISBN-10: 1851685790
• Artikelnr.: 23600909

Autorenporträt

Barbara Metcalf is Director of the Center for South Asian Studies and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, both at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Sources and Acknowledgements
Maps
 
INTRODUCTION
 
1 THE ARREST OF THE "UNDESIRABLE INDIANS," 1916
Maulana Mahmudul Hasan, Deoband, and new political strategies
The War and the "Silk Letter Conspiracy"
 
2 "THE PRISONER OF MALTA," 1916-1920
The tribunal
Travel
Malta
Everyday routines: mutual bonds, common commitments
Colonial internment as a school for anti-colonialism
 
3 FLASHBACK: BECOMING AN ISLAMIC SCHOLAR IN COLONIAL INDIA AND MEDINA
The family
Everyday life and education in Tanda
The formation of an Islamic scholar
The Sufi path
A sectarian conflict
India, 1909-1911 and 1913
Maulana Husain Ahmad at thirty-five
 
4 BECOMING A "NATIONALIST MUSLIM": INDIA IN THE 1920s
Bombay, the Khilafat Movement, and political awakening
The Shaikhul Hind, Maulana Madani, and non-cooperation
The double strand of activism: the "Karachi Seven" and Islamic renewal
Calcutta and Sylhet
Principal of Deoband
Mass politics, minority politics
 
5 WHO SPEAKS FOR MUSLIMS? THE CHALLENGES OF THE 1930s
Maulana Madani's character
Non-cooperation and round tables
Izhar-i Haqiqat, "A Declaration of Truth"
The elections of 1936
Defending "Composite Nationalism"
Differences: against the 'ulama, among the 'ulama
The Shi'a-Sunni dispute in Lucknow
Transitions
 
6 "THE GLORIOUS WARRIOR": AGAINST BRITAIN, AGAINST PARTITION
A voice crying in the wilderness?
Words as weapons: anti-colonialism, Muslim freedom fighters, sacred India
Protesting and negotiating throughout the war
Dividing India
Partition
 
CONCLUSION: INDIAN INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONTINUING JIHAD
A final story
In conclusion
 
Bibliography
Index