Making a Muslim

Making a Muslim
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781108966924
ISBN-13 : 1108966926
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Book Synopsis Making a Muslim by : S. Akbar Zaidi

Download or read book Making a Muslim written by S. Akbar Zaidi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using primarily Urdu sources from the nineteenth century, this book allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous, complex and often contradictory forms, which emerged in colonial North India after 1857. Allowing the self-representation of Muslimness and its manifestations to emerge, it contrasts how the colonial British 'made Muslims' very differently compared to how the community envisaged themselves. A key argument made here contests the general sense of the narrative of lamentation, decay, decline, and a sense of self-pity and ruination, by proposing a different condition, that of zillat, a condition which gave rise to much self-reflection resulting in action, even if it was in the form of writing and expression. By questioning how and when a Muslim community emerged in colonial India, the book unsettles the teleological explanation of the Partition of India and the making of Pakistan.


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