akbar great mughul new von bashir ahmad (2 Ergebnisse)

In many ways Ahmad Bashir?s book arouses great interest That it was written by a Pakistani historian in the 1960s tells us a great deal about the liberal intellectual milieu then prevalent in the newly created nation In that milieu historians like IH Qureshi and Moinul Haq were seeking legitimacy for the creation of Pakistan in medieval history and blaming emperor Akbar for the fall of Mughal Empire who according to them had diluted the purity of Islam by inducing an interface between it and other religions especially Hinduism - all denounced as kufr Clearly Islam was the single entry point for them in all their endeavours at historical studies and the Mughal Empire was a Muslim empire per se If one needed to bend history to this end so be it Ahmad Bashir too sought his entry into the subject through Islam or more broadly religion in general One can sense an interesting almost palpable tension in his work tension between his loyalty to Islam and loyalty to the discipline of history where evidence is treated as the supreme arbiter In the end he yields to the discipline at every crucial moment In that important sense Bashir?s is a rebellious book a challenge to the sort of history the state was patronising and its official historians were hurriedly writing Again and again he is led by his evidence to be ?fair? to Akbar and give him credit for being ?great? 192 pp.

247 S., In englischer Sprache. In English. Guter Zustand. Good Condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 19 cm, Leineneinband, mit Lesebändchen, cloth binding.