Author: Aga Khan (III)
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Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Agha Khan Sultan Muhammad Shah (Sir, 1877)
Publisher:
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Category : Sultan Muhammad Shah, Agha Khan, Sir, 1877
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan)
Publisher:
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Category : Aga Khans
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Soumen Mukherjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107154081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in late colonial South Asia.

Author: Muhammad Shah III. (Aga Khan)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Faisal Devji
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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“Offers a detailed analysis of the various political and ideological forces that were at play in the buildup to Pakistan’s creation.” (Los Angeles Review of Books) Pakistan is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that India’s rival has never been a nation-state in the conventional sense. Pakistan is instead a distinct type of political geography, whose closest ideological parallel is the state of Israel. A year before the 1948 establishment of Israel, Pakistan was founded on a philosophy that accords with Zionism in surprising ways. Faisal Devji understands Zion as a political form rather than a holy land, one that rejects hereditary linkages between ethnicity and soil in favor of membership based on an idea of belonging. Like Israel, Pakistan came into being through the migration of a minority population, inhabiting a vast subcontinent, who abandoned old lands in which they feared persecution to settle in a new homeland. Just as Israel is the world’s sole Jewish state, Pakistan is the only country to be established in the name of Islam. Revealing how Pakistan’s troubled present continues to be shaped by its past, Muslim Zion is a penetrating critique of what comes of founding a country on an unresolved desire both to join and reject the world of modern nation-states. “A trenchant analysis . . . of Islamic politics.” ?Publishers Weekly “Intellectual history as a page-turner.” —Noah Feldman, author of Cool War: The Future of Global Competition “Brilliantly written, deeply felt . . . an important contribution.” —Anatol Lieven, author of Pakistan: A Hard Country “A remarkable book.” —New Republic

Author: Aga Khan
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Languages : en
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Author: Terence Lovat
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400742193
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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The role of women in Islamic societies, not to mention in the religion itself, is a defining issue. It is also one that remains resistant to universal dogma, with a wide range of responses to women’s social roles across the Islamic world. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the editor of this volume has assembled the latest research on the issue, which combines contemporary with historical data. The material comes from around the world as well as from Muslim and non-Muslim researchers. It takes in work from majority Muslim nations such as Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey, as well as countries with troubled interfaith relations such as India and Israel. Nations with minority Muslim populations such as France, the UK, Canada and Australia, are also represented. The work also features varying Islamic sub-groups such as the two main ones, Sunni and Shi’a, as well as less well known populations such as the Ismaili Muslims. In each case, the work is underpinned by the very latest socio-theological insights and empirical data.

Author: Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan)
Publisher:
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Category : Aga Khans
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Devendra Panigrahi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135768129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 721

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Based on new source material available in both England and India, India's Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the British Empire. The freeing of India from British rule was the result of internal forces in both countries, while the split of the subcontinent along religious lines served as a harbinger for things to come. Panigrahi argues that partition was not a foregone conclusion and was not the favoured option for most of the main parties, but rather was the result of a unique set of circumstances. An erudite exploration of the highly complex relations between India and Britain leading up to independence and the split, India's Partition looks at the leaders who made far-reaching decisions - and their motivations - during this critical time.