02520nam a22003378i 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003201000170007302000180009002000180010802000180012603500130014404000380015704200080019504300120020305000230021508200170023810000280025524500620028326000400034530000450038550400510043052014930048152600080197465000320198265000470201465000440206165000370210585200400214245345BD-DhAAL20260224102934.0260224t2025    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2024027769  a9781032835730  a9781032835723  a9781003510031  a23806403  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLCdBD-DhAAL  apcc  aaz-----00aBP63.A37bJ35 202500a297.09542231 aJalal, Ayesha,eauthor.10aMuslim enlightened thought in South Asia /cAyesha Jalal.  aAbingdon, Oxon :bRoutledge,c2025.  axii, 308 pages :billustrations ;c23 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists, and public intellectuals, who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "Western" liberalism of empire. Interpreting the pathbreaking contributions of an array of creative Muslim figures, the book challenges the view portraying them as exemplars of an insular and defensive "apologetic modernity". It highlights a strand of Muslim thought and liberality of mind that has been ignored by scholars obsessed with dire and dour theologians. This book questions both the presumptions of historians of liberalism that exclude Muslims from the domain of modern liberal thought and the predilections of those scholars of Islam who lean solely on discovering theological rigidity among ulama. It analyzes the forces that have contributed to the narrowing of intellectual space since the late twentieth century and the resilience of expansive and enlightened ideas that have kept candles flickering in the enveloping darkness. Foregrounding the enlightened conceptions of Ghalib, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Iqbal and Sadequain on faith, selfhood, history, and time - and bringing other Muslim thinkers out of the shadows, the book offers a nuanced reformulation of the meaning of religion for our challenging times. It will be of interest to a wide readership interested in the history of Islam and South Asia"--8 aENH 0aIslamzSouth AsiaxHistory. 0aIslam and secularismzSouth AsiaxHistory. 0aIslamic modernismzSouth AsiaxHistory. 0aLiberalismzSouth AsiaxHistory.1 aAyesha Abed LibrarycGeneral Stacks