Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity : The Search for Saladin

ISBN-13: 9780415149655 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 274 str.

Akbar S. Ahmed

Opis

Drawing on history, semiotics and cultural anthropology as well as more conventional biographical techniques, this text presents an insight into the life of Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It aims to show his relevance today as contemporary Islam debates alternative forms of political leadership in a world dominated (at least in the Western media) by figures like Colonel Gadaffi and Saddam Hussein.

Recenzje

'Timely and significant' - Benazir Bhutto

'It is stimulating, and is an important contribution to Pakistan's historiography' - Patrick French, The Sunday Times

'[I] am glad that it has been written and that I have read it' - Philip Ziegler, The Daily Telegraph

'Hugely entertaining' - Ian Talbot, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

I: Who's Afraid of Mr Jinnah?; 1: Understanding Jinnah; II: Divide and Quit; 2: The Struggle for History; 3: Jinnah's Conversion; 4: Jinnah and the Pakistan Movement; 5: Mountbatten; 6: Partition; III: A Tryst with Destiny?; 7: Pakistan; 8: Is Jinnah still Relevant?; III: Epilogue

O autorze

Akbar Ahmed