Islam and Indian Nationalism: Reflections on Abul Kalam Azad
Hasan, Mushirul (Ed.)
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Book ID : 3953
ISBN-10 : 81-85425-70-1 / 8185425701
ISBN-13 : 978-81-85425-70-2 / 9788185425702
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2000
Edition :
Language : English
viii, 190p., Gloss., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction/Mushirul Hasan. 2. The elusive Maulana: reflections on writing Azad's biography/Gail Minault. 3. Abul Kalam Azad and Sarmad, the martyr/Christian W. Troll. 4. Liberative elements in Maulana Azad's theology/Asghar Ali Engineer. 5. Masala-e Zakat/Mohammed Zakir and Mushirul Hasan. 6. Azad and Iqbal: the quest for the Islamic 'Good'/Farzana Shaikh. 7. Secular and communitarian representations of Indian nationalism: ideology and praxis of Azad and Mohamed Ali.Mushirul Hasan. 8. Appraisal of Azad's religio-political trajectory/Ali Ashraf. 9. Azad's careers: roads taken and not taken/Aijaz Ahmad.
DESCRIPTION
This scholarly collection of essays, the first to be published in the English language since the volume edited by Humayun Kabir in 1959, offers a thorough reappraisal of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's early life, his intellectual antecedents, his standing as a religious scholar, his contribution to the cause of inter-communal harmony and his role in providing the basis of a secular society in India. Azad's political trajectory is delineated, perhaps for the first time with such scholarly rigour, in the context of the nationalist struggles in West Asia and India. The analysis offered is refreshingly different from the more established accounts of Azad's public life. This book is an attempt to understand the 'message' and what it meant to Azad's contemporaries. It is able to throw light on both the forces which led important sections amongst Muslims to choose the path of secular nationalism and the factors which contributed to their overall failure in terms of how independence was eventually achieved. The overall message of this work is loud and clear. Indian Muslims have a strong secular, nationalist tradition which should neither be forgotten nor submerged beneath the rationalization of the 'victors', the protagonists of the two nation theory and the founders of Pakistan.
