A compelling biography of Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, the pre-eminent Muslim scholar and fervent campaigner for democracy and unity in India.

Barbara Metcalf is Director of the Center for South Asian Studies and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, both at the University of Michigan.

Sources and Acknowledgements

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INTRODUCTION

1 THE ARREST OF THE ¿UNDESIRABLE INDIANS,¿ 1916

Maulana Mahmudul Hasan, Deoband, and new political strategies

The War and the ¿Silk Letter Conspiracy¿

2 ¿THE PRISONER OF MALTA,¿ 1916¿1920

The tribunal

Travel

Malta

Everyday routines: mutual bonds, common commitments

Colonial internment as a school for anti-colonialism

3 FLASHBACK: BECOMING AN ISLAMIC SCHOLAR IN COLONIAL INDIA AND MEDINA

The family

Everyday life and education in Tanda

The formation of an Islamic scholar

The Sufi path

A sectarian conflict

India, 1909¿1911 and 1913

Maulana Husain Ahmad at thirty-five

4 BECOMING A ¿NATIONALIST MUSLIM¿: INDIA IN THE 1920s

Bombay, the Khilafat Movement, and political awakening

The Shaikhul Hind, Maulana Madani, and non-cooperation

The double strand of activism: the ¿Karachi Seven¿ and Islamic renewal

Calcutta and Sylhet

Principal of Deoband

Mass politics, minority politics

5 WHO SPEAKS FOR MUSLIMS? THE CHALLENGES OF THE 1930s

Maulana Madani¿s character

Non-cooperation and round tables

Izhar-i Haqiqat, ¿A Declaration of Truth¿

The elections of 1936

Defending ¿Composite Nationalism¿

Differences: against the `ulama, among the `ulama

The Shi`äSunni dispute in Lucknow

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6 ¿THE GLORIOUS WARRIOR¿: AGAINST BRITAIN, AGAINST PARTITION

A voice crying in the wilderness?

Words as weapons: anti-colonialism, Muslim freedom fighters, sacred India

Protesting and negotiating throughout the war

Dividing India

Partition

CONCLUSION: INDIAN INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONTINUING JIHAD

A final story

In conclusion

Bibliography

Index