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Naqsh-e-Hayat - A Biography and Memoirs of Shaykh Husain Ahmad Madani
This book is a TranslaTion of Shaykh Husain Ahmad Madani’s autobiog- raphy, highlighting the colonial practices that reduced Indians to economic poverty, erasing their culture and corrupting their faith. It shows the jihad of Shaykh Madani, free from the Eurocentric paradigm of vested interest and hierarchy. It explains why the British imprisoned him in Malta, for two years in Sabarmati prison with hard labour and in Nene Jail, Allahabad.
The book also brings forward the role of prominent individuals and institutes in ending the British colonialism of India. It traces the resistance movement from the foundation of Darul-Uloom Deoband by Shaykh Qasim Nanotwi and Shaykh Rashid Aḥmad Gangohi after the 1857 British occupation of Delhi. It also includes the role of Shaykh Sayyid Aḥmad Shaheed and Shaykh al-Hind Mahmud Hasan.
This book is a small way of acknowledging his contribution and challenging nationalist and exclusivist historians who have written out the Muslims’ efforts in liberating India.
The book will be helpful to students and researchers across colleges, universities and Darul Ulooms. More than that, it will be useful to anyone who wants to learn about the anti-colonial movement in India.
The book also brings forward the role of prominent individuals and institutes in ending the British colonialism of India. It traces the resistance movement from the foundation of Darul-Uloom Deoband by Shaykh Qasim Nanotwi and Shaykh Rashid Aḥmad Gangohi after the 1857 British occupation of Delhi. It also includes the role of Shaykh Sayyid Aḥmad Shaheed and Shaykh al-Hind Mahmud Hasan.
This book is a small way of acknowledging his contribution and challenging nationalist and exclusivist historians who have written out the Muslims’ efforts in liberating India.
The book will be helpful to students and researchers across colleges, universities and Darul Ulooms. More than that, it will be useful to anyone who wants to learn about the anti-colonial movement in India.
214 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2023
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February 2, 2026
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October 17, 2023
Ismail Adam Patel must be commended for making this important work accessible and his contribution as an editor is praiseworthy.
In his comprehensive introduction Patel has provided the much needed context of the work and its relevance to understanding Islam and Muslim struggles today.
The book is readable and the timely editorial comments adds to the value of the work.
Turath Publishers have done well to take on this publication which I am sure will inspire a generation to understand the nature of the struggle against the British in colonial India. The implications that that movement had for future generations and its importance to understand how current day Muslims should chart a way in the world make this book essential reading.
In his comprehensive introduction Patel has provided the much needed context of the work and its relevance to understanding Islam and Muslim struggles today.
The book is readable and the timely editorial comments adds to the value of the work.
Turath Publishers have done well to take on this publication which I am sure will inspire a generation to understand the nature of the struggle against the British in colonial India. The implications that that movement had for future generations and its importance to understand how current day Muslims should chart a way in the world make this book essential reading.
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