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Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah developed their crucial political ideas in the 1930s. They used India to test out how law could be used to settle political conflicts, how theological concepts could be politicized, and how to speak to an increasingly hostile All India National Congress. This book maps this development.
List of contents
- 1.: Introduction
- 2.: In Search of Vulnerabilities Lost
- 3.: Shahidganj and the Burden of Time
- 4.: Jinnah: A Thinker of Existential Survival
- 5.: Iqbal and Combative Constitutionalism
- 6.: Conclusion
About the author
Adeel Hussain is an Assistant Professor of Legal and Political Theory at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Before joining Leiden University, Adeel clerked at the Court of Appeals in Frankfurt, worked for an international law firm, and advised the Government of Afghanistan on constitutional and administrative reform. His research focuses on jurisprudence, comparative constitutional law, international law, and the global history of legal and political thought, with an emphasis on South Asia and Europe. This is his first monograph.
Summary
Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah developed their crucial political ideas in the 1930s. They used India to test out how law could be used to settle political conflicts, how theological concepts could be politicized, and how to speak to an increasingly hostile All India National Congress. This book maps this development.
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This is a remarkably lucid narration of a very complex phenomena in which law and philosophical discourse intersect in a bid to explicate historical situation. Adeel Hussain unravels the political and legal intricacies that punctuated the last two decades of united India. He has shed fresh light on the twists and turns that Muslim factional politics took in the run-up to partition. It indeed makes a pithy and profound reading.
