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Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its
inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College,
Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary
Pakistan-popular novels, short stories, television serials-is
formed around a question that is and historically has been at the
core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question
"Who is a Muslim?," a constant concern within eighteenth-century
literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale
chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it
travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed
Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three
centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far
from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority
designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national
identity, and citizenship.
Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its
inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College,
Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary
Pakistan-popular novels, short stories, television serials-is
formed around a question that is and historically has been at the
core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question
"Who is a Muslim?," a constant concern within eighteenth-century
literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale
chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it
travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed
Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three
centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far
from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority
designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national
identity, and citizenship.
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