SELECTED ARTICLES |
=Abul Kalam Azad,
"Presidential Address to the Fifty-third Session of the
Indian National Congress (1940): [on this site]
=Ahmad, Eqbal. [Many articles, including a tribute by Noam Chomsky to him as a "secular Sufi"]: [site]; and a review essay by Amitava Kumar in Outlook India, Nov. 2006: [site] =Ahmed, Ishtiaq, "The 1947 Partition of India: A Paradigm for Pathological Politics in India and Pakistan": [site] =Ahmed, Ishtiaq, "Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in Lahore in 1947: Some First-Person Accounts," on the South Asia Citizens Web website, June 2004, in pdf format: [site] ="Akbar," Social Scientist 20, 232-33 (1992). A special issue about him: [site] =Alam, Muzaffar, and Sanjay Subramanyam, "The Making of a Munshi," in CSSAAME 24,2 (2004): [site]; also: [on this site] =AMERICAN JOURNALISM IN THE 19th CENTURY: Selected magazine articles about South Asia: [on this site] =Ambedkar, B. R.
"Ranade, Gandhi, and Jinnah" (1943): [on this site] =Appiah, Kwame
Anthony. "How Muslims Made Europe," The New York
Review of Books 55,17 (Nov. 6, 2008): [site] =Asani, Ali S. "Preaching Love and Tolerance," Dawn, Nov. 21, 2004; about Hazrat Mu'in ud-Din Chishti and the Chishti order: [on this site] =Bloch, Hannah, "One Family Divided: in Pakistan, the clash between extremist and moderate visions of Islam can be deeply personal, as the tale of one clan shows"; Time Magazine 158,13 (Oct. 1, 2001): [site]. The personal website of Attiya Dawood: [site] =Brass, Paul R., "The Body as Symbol: History, Memory, and Communal Violence," Manushi 141: [site] ="Communalism," Social Scientist 18, 205-6 (June-July 1990). A special issue on the topic, edited by K. M. Panikkar: [site] =COSS (Council of Social Sciences, Pakistan) offers a series of online monographs: [site] ="Crime or Custom? Violence against Women in Pakistan," Human Rights Watch, August 1999: [site] =Daftary, Farhad, and Azim Nanji, "What is Shia Islam?" Online through the Institute of Ismaili Studies: [site] =DALRYMPLE, William ="Family Matters," Business Standard, April 10, 2010: [site]
=Eaton, Richard M., "Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States," Frontline 17,26 (Dec. 23, 2000-Jan. 5, 2001), pp. 70-77: [site]. Because this site is often slow to respond, the article is also provided in pdf form [on this site]. =Feldman, Noah, "Why Shariah?", New York Times Magazine, Mar. 16, 2008: [site] =Findlay, L. M., "'[T]hat Liberty of Writing': Incontinent Ordinance in 'Oriental' Jones"; from "The Containment and Re-deployment of English India," Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Nov. 2000: [site] =Ghosh, Amitav, "The Man Behind the Mosque," The Little Magazine 1,2 (2000): [site]. About Babur and the Babur-nama. =Ghulam Yahya, "The Eleven Illustrations, a.k.a. The Illustrated Book About Makers Of Glassware, etc., And A Description of Their Tools by Ghulam Yahya." An interesting text, c. 1820, well explicated and with many illustrations: [site] =Grare, Frederic, "The Resurgence of Baloch Nationalism," a Carnegie Endowment publication, Jan. 2006: [site] =Guha, Sumit, "Transitions and Translations: Regional Power and Vernacular Identity in the Dakhan c.1500-1800," in CSSAAME 24,2 (2004): [site] =Habib, Irfan, "History and interpretation," Frontline 14,16 (Aug. 9-22, 1997): [site] ="Half Crescent: The Emerging Indian Muslim," by an editorial team, Outlook India, Oct. 4, 2004: [site] =Hamid, Mohsin, "Reinventing Pakistan," Smithsonian Magazine, July 2004: [on this site] =Harrison, Selig S., "Pakistan's Baluch Insurgency," Le monde diplomatique, Oct. 2006: [site] =Hasan, Mushirul, "Introduction"-- an essay on Maulana Muhammad Ali (1878-1931) and an excerpt from his autobiography, My Life: A Fragment: [site] =Hasan, Mushirul, ed., "Muslim Identity Politics: Fifty Years After Independence," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, in three parts: Part One: 16,2 (1996): [site]; Part Two: 17,1 (1997): [site]; Part Three: 17,2 (1997): [site] =Hasan, Riffat, "My struggle to help Muslim women reclaim their God-given rights," Dawn Review, Nov. 7 and Nov. 14th, 2002: [on this site] =Husain, Dr. Zakir, "A Day in August, 1947," Outlook India, Oct. 29, 2004. Trans. C. M. Naim: [site] or [on this site] ="India: International Religious Freedom Report, 2006," by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: [site] =Iqbal, Sir Muhammad: links [on this site] =Jalal, Ayesha. "The Greater Jihad" (an interview), Tufts Journal, March 2008: [site] =Jalal, Ayesha.
"Religion as Difference, Religion as Faith: Paradoxes
of Muslim Identity." Online as a COSS (Pakistan)
monograph; has a good deal to say about Iqbal: [site] =="Presidential address by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the Muslim League, Lucknow 1916": [on this site]=Jones, Sir William, "On Asiatick History, Civil and Natural" (1793): [site] =Jones, Sir William,
"The Origin and Families of Nations" (1792): [site] =Joshi, Namrata,
"Slokas After a Noon Namaz: Muslim children study
Sanskrit and Hindu ones read Quran in these UP
madrassas," Outlook
India, Dec. 22, 2008: [site] =Kaplan, Robert D., "The Lawless Frontier" [between Pakistan and Afghanistan], Atlantic, September 2000: [site] =Kaplan, Robert D., "Waterworld" [about the situation in Bangladesh], Atlantic, Jan./Feb 2008: [site] =Karabell, Zachary,
"The Day I Became a Muslim," Salon, Dec. 11,
1999: [site] =Karnad, Girish, "What
Statement is being Made by the Award to Naipaul?", Outlook
India, Nov. 2, 2012: [site];
then compare "Those Magnificent Invading Musical
Muslims," Outlook India, Nov. 7, 2012: [site] =Khan, Sir Sayyid Ahmad: material [on this site] =Kirkpatrick, Joanna, "Bangladeshi Arts of the Riksha": [site] =Kumar, Amitava, "Lunch with a Bigot," Seminar 538 (June 2004): [site] =Lakshman, Kanchan, "A Rising Insurgency" [about Balochistan], Outlook India, Aug. 12, 2004: [site] =Lal, Vinay, "Aurangzeb, Akbar, and the Communalization of History," on his large South Asian website "Manas," along with much other valuable material: [site] =Lala Lajpat Rai, "Open Letters to Sir Syed Ahmed Khan" (1888): [on this site] =Lala Lajpat Rai, "The Hindu-Muslim Problem" (a series of newspaper articles, 1924): [on this site] =Lalami, Laila, "The Missionary Position," The Nation, June 19, 2006: [site] =Lelyveld, David, "Growing up Sharif," the first part of Chapter Two from Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978): [on this site] =Lester, Toby, "What is the Koran?," The Atlantic, Jan. 1999: [site] =Lewis, Bernard, "The Roots of Muslim Rage," The Atlantic, Sept. 1990: [site] =Masood, Ehsan, "Pakistan's Education Gamble," Dec. 12, 2006: [site] (An overview article) =Metcalf, Barbara D., "The 'Ulama in Transition: The Eighteenth Century," Chapter 1 of Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982); now republished by OUP India: [on this site] =Metcalf, Barbara D., "Islam and Women: the Case of the Tablighi Jamaat," Stanford Humanities Review 5,6 (1996): [site] =Metcalf, Barbara D., "'Traditionalist' Islamic Activism: Deoband, Tablighis, and Talibs," post-September-11th thoughts, available with other very useful articles on the SSRC website: [site] =Metcalf, Barbara D., "The Study of Muslims in South Asia," December 2005: [on this site] =Minault, Gail, "Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 17,2 (1997): [site] =Minissale, Gregory, "The Synthesis of European and Mughal Art in the Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Nizami": [site] =Maulana Mohammed Ali's speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Round Table Conference in London, 19th Nov., 1930: [on this site] ="Muhammadan India (A.D. 637-1803)," Vol. 2, Chapter 10, Imperial Gazetteer: [site] =Munir Report: "Report of the Court of Inquiry constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to enquire into the Punjab Disturbances of 1953" [on attacks on Ahmadiyyas in Pakistan]: excerpts concerning an "Islamic State": [on this site]; the whole report: [site] =Naidu, Sarojini, "Ideals of Islam" (a talk, 1917): [on this site] =Naim, C. M., a special selection of his articles: [on this site] =Naipaul, V. S., "Among the Believers" (a part of the book), The Atlantic, July 1981: [site] =Nanji, Azim, and Farhad Daftary, "Ismaili Communities--South Asia," online through the Institute of Ismaili Studies: [site] =Noorani, A. G.
"Jinnah in India's history," Frontline 22,16
(July 30-Aug. 12, 2005): [site]; "Assessing Jinnah," Frontline
22,17 (Aug. 13-26, 2005): [site] =Noorani, A. G. "The
Koran and Muslims," Frontline 23,14 (July
1-14, 2006): [site] =Noorani, A. G. "Jehad
and the truth," Frontline
26,4, (Feb. 14-27, 2009): [site] =Pandit, K. N., "Baharistan-i-Shahi: A Chronicle of Mediaeval Kashmir" (1614): [site] =Panikkar, K. N., "Outsider as Enemy: the Politics of Rewriting History in India," in Frontline 18,1 (Jan. 6-19, 2001): [site] =PARTITION: a good set
of links to useful articles, from SAWNET: [site] =Peer, Basharat,
"Kashmir's Forever War," in Granta 112 (2010): [site]
=Rafael, George, "A is for Arab," from Salon (Jan. 8, 2002), about Muslim contributions to our lives: [site] =Rahmat Ali, Chaudhary, "Now or Never," a pamphlet that was apparently the first published call for the formation of Pakistan: [on this site] =Raley, Rita, "A Teleology of Letters; or, From a 'Common Source' to a Common Language"; from "The Containment and Re-deployment of English India," Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Nov. 2000: [site] =Riaz, Ali, "Nations, Nation-state and the Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia," Comparative Studies of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 22, 1-2 (2002) (PDF format): [site] =Richards, John F., "Early Modern India and World History": [site] =Said, Edward. "The Clash of Ignorance," The Nation, Oct. 22, 2001: [site]. Contains a scathing critique of Samuel Huntington's views. =Said, Edward. "An Intellectual Catastrophe," Al-Ahram, 6-12 August 1998 (389); a review of Naipaul's Beyond Belief: [site] =Said, Edward. A major archive of articles about his work and thought: [site] =Sayani, Rahimatulla M. "Presidential Address to the Indian National Congress" (Calcutta, 1896): [on this site] =Singhvi, Vir, "Dilemma of an Indian Muslim," Hindustan Times, Aug. 11, 2007: [site] =Schimmel, Annemarie, "Karbala and the Imam Husayn in Persian and Indo-Muslim Literature": [site] =Sikand, Yoginder, "Asghar Ali Engineer's Quest for an Islamic Theology of Peace and Religious Pluralism," Progressive Dawoodi Bohras: [site] =Sila-Khan, Dominique, "Muslim Saints and Hindu Rulers: The Development of Sufi and Ismaili Mysticism in the Non-Muslim States of India," Ismailia Association, 1981: [site] =Subramanyam, Sanjay, "Golden Age Hallucinations," Outlook India, Aug. 20, 2001: [site]; or [on this site] =Subramanyam, Sanjay, "Diversity in South Asian Islam," Akhbar, Oct.-Dec. 2002: [site] =Thapar, Romila, "A
Paradigm Shift," Frontline 14,16 (Aug. 9-22,
1997): [site] =Thapar, Romila,
"Conversations about history" (an interview by Kalpana
Sharma), The Hindu,
Jan 25., 2009: [site] =Traub, James,
"Keeping Up With the Shidhayes: India's New Middle
Class" (an exceptionally thoughtful look at
Aurangabad), New
York Times Magazine, April 15, 2001: [on this site] =Tyabji, Badruddin, "Presidential Address to the Indian National Congress" (Madras, 1887): [on this site] =UNDP (United Nations Development Program): "Arab Human Development Report, 2002" -- an assessment of development needs in the heartland of Islam: [site]. An update for 2003: [site] =Viswanathan, Gauri, "Ethnographic Politics and the Discourse of Origins," Stanford Humanities Review 5,6 (1996): [site] =Wink, Andre, "Perspectives on the Indo-Islamic World," a lecture at Tel Aviv University, April 2006: [site] |
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