Ayesha Jalal

Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim philosophers, artists, and public intellectuals, who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "Western" liberalism of empire. It will be of interest to a wide readership interested in the history of Islam and South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781032835730
• ISBN-10: 1032835737
• Artikelnr.: 70601346

Autorenporträt

Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, USA. She was awarded the MacArtur "Genius" Fellowship in 1998. Her books include Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (5th edition, Routledge, 2022, with Sugata Bose) and Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 (Routledge, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: Light Upon Light Part I 1. Muslimness and Infidelity: Ghalib's PoeticIlluminations
2. Faith and Freethinking: The Ethics of Sayyid AhmadKhan
3. Faith, Friendship and the Liberality of the Muslim Mind
4. Sparks of LiteraryImagination Part II. 5. Retrieving the Past: Apologetic and Self-ConfidentModernities
6. History, Reason, andRevelation
7. Unveiling Women in Historical and LiteraryImagination
8. Ornament of Womankind: Concealed, Concocted,Contested. Part III. 9. The Light of Iqbal
10. An Enlightened Vision: Sadequain's Transcreations of Iqbal
11. Lighting up the Darkness: Islam in the Post-Colonial Era
Epilogue: Candles in the Dark
Index