Akbar Ahmed

Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity (eBook, ePUB)

The Search for Saladin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Four men shaped the end of British rule in India: Nehru, Gandhi, Mountbatten and Jinnah. We know a great deal about the first three, but Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, has mostly either been ignored or, in the case of Richard Attenborough's hugely successful film about Gandhi, portrayed as a cold megalomaniac, bent on the bloody partition of India. Akbar Ahmed's major study redresses the balance. Drawing on history, semiotics and cultural anthropology as well as more conventional biographical techniques, he presents a rounded picture of the man and shows his relevance as contemporary Islam debates alternative forms of political leadership in a world dominated--at least in the Western media--by figures like Colonel Gadaffi and Saddam Hussein.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134750221
• Artikelnr.: 38458476

Autorenporträt

Akbar Ahmed

Inhaltsangabe

I: Who's Afraid of Mr Jinnah?
1: Understanding Jinnah
II: Divide and Quit
2: The Struggle for History
3: Jinnah's Conversion
4: Jinnah and the Pakistan Movement
5: Mountbatten
6: Partition
III: A Tryst with Destiny?
7: Pakistan
8: Is Jinnah still Relevant?
III: Epilogue

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I: Who's Afraid of Mr Jinnah?; 1: Understanding Jinnah; II: Divide and Quit; 2: The Struggle for History; 3: Jinnah's Conversion; 4: Jinnah and the Pakistan Movement; 5: Mountbatten; 6: Partition; III: A Tryst with Destiny?; 7: Pakistan; 8: Is Jinnah still Relevant?; III: Epilogue

Rezensionen

'Timely and significant' - Benazir Bhutto

'It is stimulating, and is an important contribution to Pakistan's historiography' - Patrick French, The Sunday Times

'[I] am glad that it has been written and that I have read it' - Philip Ziegler, The Daily Telegraph

'Hugely entertaining' - Ian Talbot, Times Literary Supplement

'Timely and significant' - Benazir Bhutto

'It is stimulating, and is an important contribution to Pakistan's historiography' - Patrick French, The Sunday Times

'[I] am glad that it has been written and that I have read it' - Philip Ziegler, The Daily Telegraph

'Hugely entertaining' - Ian Talbot, Times Literary Supplement