... of Iraqi nationalism and, concurrently, to reconstruct the richness of the Iraqi cultural field. I focus on two intellectuals, Mahmud Ahmad al-Sayyid (1904-37) and Dhu Nun Ayyub (1908-84), two socialists whose novels critique the state and its elites. I argue that, despite the prominence of Pan-Arabism...

...-sayyid Kawabata (Dear Mr Kawabata) show how violence and coercion infuse the city and humiliate the self during war. Human dignity emerges in these novels only as a longed-for memory or vision of what was or ought to be. In Arabic literature nothing is more redolent of memory and longing than...

... and edited by Pritchett Frances Faruqi Shamsur Rahman . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2001 . ‘Azimabadi Sayyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shad . Nawa-e Wata. (The Voice of the Homeland) . Patna : Matba‘-e Qaisari , 1884 . ‘Azimabadi Sayyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shad . Shad ki Kahani...

... by conducting multisited “Ma’rifatullah: In Search of Union with Allah: The 5. Huub de Jonge, “Dutch Colonial Policy Pertaining ethnography (i.e., mainly participant observation and Sayyid of Cikoang, South Sulawesi” (master’s the- to Hadhrami Immigrants,” in Hadhrami...

... for Jamaluddin in Istanbul. Source: Aʻzami, Sayyid Jamal al-Din Afghan . Courtesy NYU Afghanistan Digital Library. Figure 1. Afghan men posing around the grave Crane built for Jamaluddin in Istanbul. Source: Aʻzami, Sayyid Jamal al-Din Afghan. Courtesy NYU Afghanistan Digital Library. Originally...

... was thus the responsibility of men. reformers as diverse as Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan of Ali- Women were to be the beneficiaries of the actions of garh (1817-1898), Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanavi of Deo- men, not actors on their own behalf. Women became band (1864-1943), and Sayyid Mumtaz Ali of Lahore...

... sought to model themselves on this community. Parsi improvement schemes impressed Islamic movements seeking inspiration for communal reform. Reformer Sayyid Ahmed Khan, for example, could not contain his admiration for the Parsis' economic success, education system, and language skills, as well...

... an investment in under the successive regimes that ruled the Sudan. the migrant worker’s future and affected his social The most important religious figures in the first half standing in both the village and the city. of the 20th century were Sayyid ‘Ali al-Mirghani of In view of the high cost...

..., No. -1264289   especially to Sayyid Alwee Alkaff. The National University of Sin- help. Ahmed Ferhadi and Nishti Ferhadi kindly transcribed  let  -   31, x   gapore, the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Asian ters in Arabic in such a way that I could read them...

... (a.s). sermon swords Imam Fadlullah, for the Husayn . by Muhammad . taught —Sayyid . were chains we or as swords enemy with not the ourselves is against hitting It raised and world. tears whole of the tragedy in the a or face in countries we living Muslim time standing in each is whether minds Ashura...

... , edited and translated by Raf‘at Sayyid Mubārizuddīn , 11 – 79 . Hyderabad : Nafīs Academy , 1946 . ———. Ibtāl-i tarīqah-yi Tabī‘īyīn (Refutation of the Naturist Path) . Rasht : Matba‘ah-i Sa‘ādat , 1910 . ———. Irshādāt-i Jamāl al-Dīn Afghānī (The Directives of Jamal al-din Afghani...

... content.34 A key fi gure of this gen- is from the 1940s, the “twilight” of British rule eration was Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, who played in India; and the third has strong resonance for a seminal role in trying to reconcile modern- contemporary India...

... Rights Commission as Pakistan which has been subjected to fascist persecutions follows: 46 Since promulgation of this ordinance (MLD XX of jahiddin (holy warriors) led by Sayyid Ahmad Barilwi, who...

... work on the pan- exalted domicile because of his own exigencies, causing Islamic project in concert with Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani glory to descend upon it. During the month of fasting and others, but had to leave again. He made a pilgrimage to © 2003: Comparative Studies...

... in Indo-Persian Poetic Landscape,” in Comparative 4. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Kulliyat-i Farsi (Com- Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24 plete Persian Poetry), vol. 1, ed. Sayyid Murtuza Hu- (2004): 73–81...

... . Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Muhammad Shatta Sayyid bin Bakr bin al-Sayyid . al-Qawl al-mubrim fI anna man‘ al-usul wa al-furu‘ min irthihim muharram . Cairo : Ahmad Il-Babi aI-HalabIi , 1892...

.... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 minority global intellectual history colonialism conceptual history social difference In 1883, the Delhi-born Muslim activist and theologian Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–98) commented favorably on a proposed bill for extending local self-government...

... and attempts to deconstruct as reflected in the activities and debates of the the unified images of authoritarian national- Muthanna club and others. In the writings of ism. While scholars of Iraqi nationalism paid al-Sayyid and Ayyub, anticolonial critiques are Intellectual great heed...

.... Devereux refers to the two depu- Reform Politics) (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 2005); and in Society and History 45 (2003): 311–42; and Ussama ties as “Sheikh ‘Ali E[fendi]” and “Sayyid Muhammad Eugene L. Rogan, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ot- Makdisi, “Ottoman Orientalism,” American Historical E...