1st Edition
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity The Search for Saladin
By Akbar Ahmed
Copyright 1997
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Every generation needs to reinterpret its great men of the past. Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before.
Four men shaped the end of British rule in India: Nehru, Gandhi, Mountbatten and Jinnah. We know a great deal about the first three, but... Read more
I: Who's Afraid of Mr Jinnah?; 1: Understanding Jinnah; II: Divide and Quit; 2: The Struggle for History; 3: Jinnah's Conversion; 4: Jinnah and the Pakistan Movement; 5: Mountbatten; 6: Partition; III: A Tryst with Destiny?; 7: Pakistan; 8: Is Jinnah still Relevant?; III: Epilogue
Biography
Akbar Ahmed
'Timely and significant' - Benazir Bhutto
'It is stimulating, and is an important contribution to Pakistan's historiography' - Patrick French, The Sunday Times
'[I] am glad that it has been written and that I have read it' - Philip Ziegler, The Daily Telegraph
'Hugely entertaining' - Ian Talbot, Times Literary Supplement
