A moral reckoning Muslim intellectuals in nineteenth-century Delhi
This volume discusses the lives of five significant and influential figures of 19th-century Delhi - Mohammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mizra Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali. It studies their attitudes and behaviour towards one another, their responses to the onse...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi
Oxford University Press
2007, 2007
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This volume discusses the lives of five significant and influential figures of 19th-century Delhi - Mohammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mizra Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali. It studies their attitudes and behaviour towards one another, their responses to the onset of colonial rule, their experience of living through the 1857 Rebellion, their reappraisal of their culture and identity, and above all, the impact of their thinking and activism on their contemporaries |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2005 |
| Physical Description: | xv, 313 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780199081691 |