Who Is a Muslim?
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Who Is a Muslim?

Orientalism and Literary Populisms

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Who Is a Muslim?

Orientalism and Literary Populisms

About this book

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 Pakistanā€”popular novels, short stories, television serialsā€”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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. WHO IS A MUSLIM?
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Note on Transliteration
  8. Introduction. Who Is a Muslim?
  9. 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale
  10. 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony
  11. 3 Nation/Qaum: The ā€œMusalmansā€ of India
  12. 4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel
  13. 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel
  14. Epilogue. Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index