The Wahhabi Movement in India

ISBN-13: 9780367514839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 352 str.

Qeyamuddin Ahmad

Opis

The Wahhabi Movement in India presents an integrated account of the rise and growth of the Movement, its operation over the entire area and period of its existence, its impact and reasons for its failure.

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Spis treści

1. Genesis of the Wahhabi Movement in India 2. Sayyid Ahmad and the Early Phase of the Movement 3. The Post-Balakote Phase, 1831-43 4. Revival and Consolidation of the Movement 5. The Organisational Base of the Movement 6. The Wahhabis and the Movement of 1857-59 7. The British Campaigns Against the Wahhabis on the North-Western Frontier 8. State Trials of Wahhabi Leaders, 1863-65 9. The Concluding Phase of the Movement 10. Wahhabi Missionary Literature and Polemic Anti-Wahhabi Writings 11. An appraisal of the Wahhabi Movement 12. Appendices

O autorze

Qeyamuddin Ahmad joined the Bihar Educational Service in 1952 and was later transfered to Patna University where he taught History from 1964. Among his publications are Corpus of Arabic and Persian Inscriptions of Bihar (1973) and an abridged edition of Edward Sachau’s English translation of Alberuni’s India with a new introduction (1983). He was Associate Editor of Comprehensive History of Bihar Vol. II Part I (1983) and Part II (1986) published by the K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna.