Jinnah Pakistan And Islamic Identity

Author : Akbar Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134750221

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Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity by Akbar Ahmed Pdf

Every generation needs to reinterpret its great men of the past. Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before. 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 Mohammed 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, Akbar S. Ahmad 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.

Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0415149657

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Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity by Akbar S. Ahmed Pdf

Every generation needs to reinterpret its great men of the past. Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before. 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 Mohammed 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, Akbar S. Ahmad 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.

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : India
ISBN : 9781849042765

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Muslim Zion by Faisal Devji Pdf

Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.

Author : Akbar S. Ahmed,Hastings Donnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134870486

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Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity by Akbar S. Ahmed,Hastings Donnan Pdf

This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves towards the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations, the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which, as the contributors to this volume show, will have far-reaching consequences not just for the Muslim world, but for relations between Islam and the West more generally.

Author : Akbar Ahmed
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815727590

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Journey into Europe by Akbar Ahmed Pdf

An unprecedented, richly, detailed, and clear-eyed exploration of Islam in European history and civilization Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the continent, often espousing anti-Muslim rhetoric, has shaken the foundation of the European Union to its very core. Many Europeans see Islam as an alien, even barbaric force that threatens to overwhelm them and their societies. Muslims, by contrast, struggle to find a place in Europe in the face of increasing intolerance. In tandem, anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination cause many on the continent to feel unwelcome in their European homes. Akbar Ahmed, an internationally renowned Islamic scholar, traveled across Europe over the course of four years with his team of researchers and interviewed Muslims and non-Muslims from all walks of life to investigate questions of Islam, immigration, and identity. They spoke with some of Europe’s most prominent figures, including presidents and prime ministers, archbishops, chief rabbis, grand muftis, heads of right-wing parties, and everyday Europeans from a variety of backgrounds. Their findings reveal a story of the place of Islam in European history and civilization that is more interwoven and complex than the reader might imagine, while exposing both the misunderstandings and the opportunities for Europe and its Muslim communities to improve their relationship. Along with an analysis of what has gone wrong and why, this urgent study, the fourth in a quartet examining relations between the West and the Muslim world, features recommendations for promoting integration and pluralism in the twenty-first century.

Author : Farzana Shaikh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190929114

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Making Sense of Pakistan by Farzana Shaikh Pdf

Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with the United States since 9/11; others see it as a consequence of Pakistan's long history of authoritarian rule, which has marginalized liberal opinion and allowed the rise of a religious right. Farzana Shaikh argues the country's decline is rooted primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of Pakistan and the significance of 'being Pakistani'. This has pre-empted a consensus on the role of Islam in the public sphere and encouraged the spread of political Islam. It has also widened the gap between personal piety and public morality, corrupting the country's economic foundations and tearing apart its social fabric. More ominously still, it has given rise to a new and dangerous symbiosis between the country's powerful armed forces and Muslim extremists. Shaikh demonstrates how the ideology that constrained Indo-Muslim politics in the years leading to Partition in 1947 has left its mark, skillfully deploying insights from history to better understand Pakistan's troubled present.

Author : Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134495436

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Discovering Islam by Akbar S. Ahmed Pdf

This accessible work balances the image of Islam as aggressive and fanatical with an objective picture of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society.

Author : Ali Usman Qasmi,Megan Eaton Robb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166639

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Muslims against the Muslim League by Ali Usman Qasmi,Megan Eaton Robb Pdf

"Discusses the dynamics of the Indian freedom movement during the 1940s from the perspective of those Muslim leaders and political parties who opposed the idea of a separate state for South Asian Muslims, or whose primary engagement with Muslim League activities treated separatism as marginal to their political agenda"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rasul Bakhsh Rais,Rasul Bux Rais
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199407592

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Islam, Ethnicity, and Power Politics by Rasul Bakhsh Rais,Rasul Bux Rais Pdf

Islam, Ethnicity, and Power Politics explores how the central state apparatus, social forces, ethnic groups, political elites, and religious factions have attempted to influence the construction of identity in Pakistan, and why it has become such a contested issue. The book analyzes the issue of identity in relation to power dynamics and competing ideologies, and argues that the choice and expression of a specific identity by contending political actors serves to claim, legitimize, and challenge power. The postcolonial inheritance of ethnic diversity and cultural pluralism that is embedded deep in regional histories as well as in the multiple layers of narrow tribal, caste, and parochial affiliations have not lent easily to the coveted idea of a single national culture or a particular sense of national identity. Against a conventional view of identity, the book makes the counter-argument of multiculturalism and a layered idea of identities that is contextualized. The defining idea of the book is that the cultural diversity of Pakistan-a rich mosaic-is not the problem that it is generally conceived to be. Conversely, it argues that diversity and pluralism in Pakistan or elsewhere can be managed and made to evolve into national solidarity and political cohesion through democratic, federal, and republican politics. However, such a diverse society requires a pluralistic political framework of equality, accommodation, inclusiveness, recognition, and rights.

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674744998

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The Struggle for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal Pdf

In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider’s assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region.

Author : Saad R. Khairi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034538119

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Jinnah Reinterpreted by Saad R. Khairi Pdf

In 1916-17 Mohammed Ali Jinnah persuaded the warring Hindu and Muslim politicians to sign a pact for an agreed future constitution of a united India. For this he was hailed as "Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity." Thirty years later, he brought about Partition. What was responsible for this change? Personal ambition? British intrigues or Hindu obduracy? This book questions many of the myths that have grown around India's struggle for independence and highlights many factors that have been deliberately suppressed by historians on both sides of the border.

Author : Fatima Jinnah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : UOM:39015017732945

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My Brother by Fatima Jinnah Pdf

Author : Ishtiaq Ahmed
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789353056643

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Jinnah by Ishtiaq Ahmed Pdf

Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been both celebrated and reviled for his role in the Partition of India, and the controversies surrounding his actions have only increased in the seven decades and more since his death. Ishtiaq Ahmed places Jinnah's actions under intense scrutiny to ascertain the Quaid-i-Azam's successes and failures and the meaning and significance of his legacy. Using a wealth of contemporary records and archival material, Dr Ahmed traces Jinnah's journey from Indian nationalist to Muslim communitarian, and from a Muslim nationalist to, finally, Pakistan's all-powerful head of state. How did the ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity become the inflexible votary of the two-nation theory? Did Jinnah envision Pakistan as a theocratic state? What was his position on Gandhi and federalism? Asking these crucial questions against the backdrop of the turbulent struggle against colonialism, this book is a path-breaking examination of one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century.

Author : Saleena Karim
Publisher : Libredux Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0957141688

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Secular Jinnah & Pakistan by Saleena Karim Pdf

Saleena Karim's Secular Jinnah & Pakistan: What the Nation Doesn't Know is a unique study of M.A. Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, and his ideological convictions. Seven years after it was originally published, the book has been thoroughly revised and new material has been added, including updates in light of recent scholarship; commentary on how the ideological divide has affected the education curriculum; discussion of Bengal in the ideological context, with a full review of the controversy over the Delhi Resolution of 1946; details of how Chief Justice Munir and Governor-General Ghulam Mohammed justified the first dictatorship of Pakistan; notes on Scheduled Caste leader J.N. Mandal's political support of the Muslim League; assessment of resistance to socialist economic reforms by landlords backed by religious leaders; accounts of provincial politics; evidence from early Muslim sources that support the progressive thinking of Pakistan's founders; extensive reviews of works only touched upon in the previous edition; appraisal of Jinnah's powers as a person as well as a statesman; and more. Popularly known for having revealed that a false quote ascribed to Pakistan's founder is still being used as part of the standard argument for a 'secular Jinnah', the book's most important contribution is its argument that while scholarship recognises three ideological categories in Pakistan - religious, secular, and synthesist - Jinnah belongs to a fourth, and this has yet to be explored.

Author : Richard Sisson,Leo E. Rose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520912038

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War and Secession by Richard Sisson,Leo E. Rose Pdf

A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data derive from interviews conducted with principal players in each of the countries immediately involved-Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh-including Indira Gandhi and leaders of the Awami League in Bangladesh.