Introduction PART I Intellectual history 1. Humanism’s fragments: Adorno, anti-imperialism, peripheral literature 2. Voyages of the self: Muslims as anticolonial subjects in Muhammad Iqbal’s philosophy of history PART II Literary history 3. The remaking of the world: Indo-Pakistani Muslims and the Progressive Writers’ Movement 4. Modernist twilight: Peripheral modernism in the novels of Zulfikar Ghose PART III Poetic history 5. History and racial charisma: Hanif Kureishi and the Muslim other in the post-Cold War Bildungsroman 6. The return of realism in recent Pakistani Anglophone fiction