Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900, by Barbara Daly MetcalfIslamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900, by Barbara Daly Metcalf, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982, xiv, 376 pp. $27.50.

1983 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-304
Author(s):  
Peter Penner
Keyword(s):  
British India ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Princeton University

Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900

1983 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 1050
Author(s):  
Gowher Rizvi ◽  
Barbara Daly Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
British India ◽  
Islamic Revival

To Flower and Fructify: Rational Religion and the Seeds of Islam in Nazir Ahmad’s (1830–1912) Late-career Religious Non-fiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-69
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Lhost
Keyword(s):  
Original Compositions ◽  
British Government ◽  
British India ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
The Law

Abstract Known primarily for his popular and moralizing novels, Nazir Ahmad’s (1830–1912) accomplishments as a scholar of Islam are often omitted from his biography. Yet in addition to working for the British Government of India, participating in Muslim social, political, and educational initiatives on the subcontinent, and demonstrating his linguistic and legal acumen by translating the law codes of British India into vernacular Urdu, Nazir Ahmad also translated religious texts and penned his own original compositions on themes of religion, society, and ethics. Reviewing the ideas presented in his comprehensive three-volume al-Ḥuqūq va-l-farāʾiż (1905–6) and his shorter catechism Ijtihād (1906), this article outlines Nazir Ahmad’s theory of worldly religion and introduces his concept of Islamic humanism in response to ulema-centric approaches to Islamic revival and reform in British India.

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