Khan Who Is a Muslim?

Orientalism and Literary Populisms
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9015-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khan, Maryam Wasif

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Transliteration ix

Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? 1

1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale 21

2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony 53

3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India 87

4 Martyr/Mujahid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel 126

5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel 165

Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu 209

Acknowledgments 221

Notes 225

Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

Khan Maryam Wasif:
Maryam Wasif Khan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS University, Lahore.Maryam Wasif Khan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS University, Lahore.