A Moral Reckoning: Muslim Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Delhi
Mushirul Hasan
Abstract
While many books have been written about India's Muslim intellectuals such as Muhammad Husain Azad (1830-1910), Muhammad Zakaullah (1832–1910), Nazir Ahmad (1836–1912), Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–1898), Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797–1869), and Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali (1837–1914), little is known about their lives, theories, and activities or their attitudes and behaviour towards one another, their own reappraisal of culture and identity, their responses to the onset of British rule, and their experience of living through the 1857 Rebellion. This book analyses the different views permeating s ... More
Keywords: nineteenth century Delhi, Muslim intellectuals, Muhammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Islam in India, religion in nineteenth century India, religious pluralism, 1857 Rebellion, British rule in India, Shariat, Muslim identity, modernism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195691979 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195691979.001.0001 |
