Prelude: Light Upon Light Part I 1. Muslimness and Infidelity: Ghalib's PoeticIlluminations; 2. Faith and Freethinking: The Ethics of Sayyid AhmadKhan; 3. Faith, Friendship and the Liberality of the Muslim Mind; 4. Sparks of LiteraryImagination Part II. 5. Retrieving the Past: Apologetic and Self-ConfidentModernities; 6. History, Reason, andRevelation; 7. Unveiling Women in Historical and LiteraryImagination; 8. Ornament of Womankind: Concealed, Concocted,Contested. Part III. 9. The Light of Iqbal; 10. An Enlightened Vision: Sadequain’s Transcreations of Iqbal; 11. Lighting up the Darkness: Islam in the Post-Colonial Era; Epilogue: Candles in the Dark; Index
Biography
Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, USA. She was awarded the MacArtur “Genius” Fellowship in 1998. Her books include Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (5th edition, Routledge, 2022, with Sugata Bose) and Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 (Routledge, 2000).
