Author: Hakim Abul-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sanai Ghaznavi Publisher: ISBN: 9781534824638 Category : Languages : en Pages : 140
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For close to 900 years The Enclosed Garden of Truth, or, The Hadiqat al Haqiqa, has been consistently read as a classic and employed as a Sufi textbook. It was the first Persian mystical epic of Sufism. Dedicated to Bahram Shah, the work expresses the poet's ideas on God, love, philosophy and reason.
Author: Jamal Malik Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134107625 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 239
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After 9/11, madrasas have been linked to international terrorism. They are suspected to foster anti-western, traditionalist or even fundamentalist views and to train al-Qaeda fighters. This has led to misconceptions on madrasa-education in general and its role in South Asia in particular. Government policies to modernize and ‘pacify’ madrasas have been precipitous and mostly inadequate. This book discusses the educational system of madrasas in South Asia. It gives a contextual account of different facets of madrasa education from historical, anthropological, theological, political and religious studies perspectives. Some contributions offer recommendations on possible – and necessary – reforms of religious educational institutions. It also explores the roots of militancy and sectarianism in Pakistan, as well as its global context. Overall, the book tries to correct misperceptions on the role of madrasas, by providing a more balanced discussion, which denies neither the shortcomings of religious educational institutions in South Asia nor their important contributions to mass education.
Author: Zeenut Ziad Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195794441 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
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This fully illustrated anthology is an authoritative and variegated work on Mughal history. The contributors, highly eminent in their respective fields, provide an informative account of the religious, cultural, economic, political and military aspects of the Mughal Empire.
Author: Khaliq Ahmad Nizami Publisher: ISBN: Category : Historians Languages : en Pages : 284
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Description: The present work is based on an extensive and critical study of the historical literature of medieval India and provides fresh perspectives for its interpretation and analysis. The introductory chapter identifies different types of literature, political and non-political, available for reconstructing the history of medieval India. The author's views about historiographical concepts and conspectus of the medieval historians are original and thought-provoking. Holding the view that a study of the thought-process of a historian should precede the utilization of data supplied by him, the author has x-rayed the prejudices, predilections, motives, and objectives of Minhaj, Barani, Abul Fazl and others with remarkable insight and erudition. The author's psycho-historical method of analysis and interpretation makes the work extremely fascinating and informative. The author has drawn attention to the historical value of the table talks of the Sufi saints of medieval India, has highlighted the importance of historical literature produced during the reign of Akbar, has established the apocryphal nature of the so-called autobiography of Muhammad b. Tughluq, and has shown that the Futuhat-i-Firuz Shahi was an inscription and should not be taken as a complete exposition of the policies of Firoz Shah Tughluq. The work is a valuable addition to literature on medieval Indian Historiography.
Author: Aziz Ahmad Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195644647 Category : Islam Languages : en Pages : 0
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Arranged in two parts, this volume first examines the relations of the emergent Muslim polity in India with the larger Muslim world. It then deals with issues of accommodation, syncretism, and opposition between `Muslim India' since the campaign of Muhammad bin Qasim in Sindh in 710 to the emergence of independent India and Pakistan in 1947.
Author: Hakim Abul-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sanai Ghaznavi
Author: Sheikh Mohamad Ikram
Author: Stephen Frederic Dale
Author: Francis Robinson
Author: Jamal Malik
Author: S. M. Jaffar
Author: Zeenut Ziad
Author: Mohibbul Hasan
Author: Khaliq Ahmad Nizami
Author: Aziz Ahmad