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This book is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim philosophers, artists, and public intellectuals, who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "Western" liberalism of empire. It will be of interest to a wide readership interested in the history of Islam and South Asia.
List of contents
Prelude: Light Upon Light Part I 1. Muslimness and Infidelity: Ghalib's PoeticIlluminations; 2. Faith and Freethinking: The Ethics of Sayyid AhmadKhan; 3. Faith, Friendship and the Liberality of the Muslim Mind; 4. Sparks of LiteraryImagination Part II. 5. Retrieving the Past: Apologetic and Self-ConfidentModernities; 6. History, Reason, andRevelation; 7. Unveiling Women in Historical and LiteraryImagination; 8. Ornament of Womankind: Concealed, Concocted,Contested. Part III. 9. The Light of Iqbal; 10. An Enlightened Vision: Sadequain’s Transcreations of Iqbal; 11. Lighting up the Darkness: Islam in the Post-Colonial Era; Epilogue: Candles in the Dark; Index
About the author
Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, USA. She was awarded the MacArtur “Genius” Fellowship in 1998. Her books include Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (5th edition, Routledge, 2022, with Sugata Bose) and Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 (Routledge, 2000).
Summary
This book is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim philosophers, artists, and public intellectuals, who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the “Western” liberalism of empire. It will be of interest to a wide readership interested in the history of Islam and South Asia.
