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Author | : Ayesha Jalal |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674039076 |
Today, more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. As the line drawn between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more rigid, Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history. Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.
Author | : Ayesha Jalal |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2008-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674028012 |
Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.
Author | : Ayesha Jalal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674047365 |
Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.
Author | : Ayesha Jalal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Islam and politics |
ISBN | : 9788178242743 |
Author | : Ayesha Jalal |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674744993 |
Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Author | : Ayesha Jalal |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-02-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691153620 |
The contents of this book cover Amritsar dreams of revolution, remembering Partition, living and walking Bombay, on the postcolonial moment, Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War, and much more.
Author | : Sana Aiyar |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674425928 |
Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. In general, they were wealthier than Africans, but were denied the political and economic privileges that Europeans enjoyed. Moreover, despite their relative prosperity, Indians were precariously positioned in Kenya. Africans usually viewed them as outsiders, and Europeans largely considered them subservient. Indians demanded recognition on their own terms. Indians in Kenya chronicles the competing, often contradictory, strategies by which the South Asian diaspora sought a political voice in Kenya from the beginning of colonial rule in the late 1890s to independence in the 1960s. Indians’ intellectual, economic, and political connections with South Asia shaped their understanding of their lives in Kenya. Sana Aiyar investigates how the many strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s political leadership, from claiming partnership with Europeans in their mission to colonize and “civilize” East Africa to successful collaborations with Africans to battle for racial equality, including during the Mau Mau Rebellion. She also explores how the hierarchical structures of colonial governance, the material inequalities between Indians and Africans, and the racialized political discourses that flourished in both colonial and postcolonial Kenya limited the success of alliances across racial and class lines. Aiyar demonstrates that only by examining the ties that bound Indians to worlds on both sides of the Indian Ocean can we understand how Kenya came to terms with its South Asian minority.
Author | : Kenneth A. Goudie |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2019-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004410716 |
In Reinventing Jihād, Kenneth A. Goudie provides a detailed examination of the development of jihād ideology from the Conquest of Jerusalem to the end of the Ayyūbids (c. 492/1099–647/1249).
Author | : Ayesha Jalal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521458504 |
'Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of ... the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review
Author | : Karen Armstrong |
Publisher | : Knopf Canada |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2009-09-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0307372952 |
From the bestselling author of A History of God and The Great Transformation comes a balanced, nuanced understanding of the role religion plays in human life and the trajectory of faith in modern times. Why has God become incredible? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Moving from the Paleolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the lengths to which humankind has gone to experience a sacred reality that it called God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. She examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. With her trademark depth of knowledge and profound insight, Armstrong elucidates how the changing world has necessarily altered the importance of religion at both societal and individual levels. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for structuring a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.