Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity The Search for Saladin

Name: Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity The Search for Saladin
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ISBN: 9780415149662

ISBN-10: 0415149665

ISBN-13: 9780415149662

Edition: 1997

Authors: Akbar S. Ahmed

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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…

Book details

List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of plates


Preface


Introduction: Seeking Saladin


List of maps



Understanding Jinnah


Jinnah: a life


The role of Jinnah's family


Imagining Jinnah: why different people see different Jinnahs



The Struggle for History


Constructing the past


Hierarchy and purity: the clash of civilizations


Muslim awakening



Jinnah's Conversion


The causes of Jinnah's conversion


The passing of the flame: Iqbal and Jinnah


Crossing the Rubicon



Jinnah and the Pakistan Movement


Seeing Saladin: what Muslims saw in Jinnah


Gandhi and Ram Raj


The path to Pakistan



Mountbatten: Last Viceroy and First Paki-Basher


Mountbatten's mission


The clash of the titans


Paki-bashing



Partition: In the Heat of Passion


Romancing the Vicereine


Shielding the Vicereine


Summer savagery



Pakistan: Ethnic versus Religious Identity


Jinnah's Pakistan: the rising of the moon


Jinnah's passing growing crisis


Jinnah as metaphor: 'secularist' or 'fundamentalist'?



Is Jinnah still Relevant?


From crisis to crisis: sidelining Jinnah in Pakistan


From Anandamath to Ayodhya: Muslim fate in India


Bangladesh: the struggle for identity


Epilogue: Preparing for the Next Millennium


References


Index