Who Is a Muslim?

Who Is a Muslim?
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Publisher : Fordham University Press
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9780823290147
ISBN-13 : 082329014X
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Book Synopsis Who Is a Muslim? by : Maryam Wasif Khan

Download or read book Who Is a Muslim? written by Maryam Wasif Khan and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.


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