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Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic identity:

the search for Saladin
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Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1997 - History - 274 pages

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 Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, has mostly either been ignored or, in the case of Richard Attenborough's hugely successful film about Gandhi, portrayed as a cold megalomaniac, bent on the bloody partition of India. Akbar Ahmed's major study redresses the balance.


Drawing on history, semiotics and cultural anthropology as well as more conventional biographical techniques, Akbar S. Ahmad presents a rounded picture of the man and shows his relevance as contemporary Islam debates alternative forms of political leadership in a world dominated (at least in the Western media) by figures like Colonel Gadaffi and Saddam Hussein.

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This is definitely one of the best books on Pakistan history I have read. Akbar Ahmed really takes you inside Jinnah's life; it's trite but I felt as if I were there as he described everything. He ... Read full review

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my people! well, you're all my people; good book Read full review

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TitleJinnah, Pakistan and Islamic identity: the search for Saladin
AuthorAkbar S Ahmed
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherRoutledge Chapman & Hall, 1997
ISBN0415149665, 9780415149662
Length274 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
History / Asia / General
History / Asia / India & South Asia
  
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