...Kwangmin Kim Abstract This article provides a Muslim perspective on the eighteenth-century Qing conquest of Xinjiang. It explores the career of Emin Khwaja, a leader of the Muslim community of Turfan and the most prominent Muslim ally in the Qing conquest. I investigate how the notion...

...Nathan Light Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan: Étude sur les Khwajas Naqshbandis du Turkestan oriental . By Alexandre Papas . Paris : Librarie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Jean Maisonneuve successeur , 2005 . iii , 291 pp. €48.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... to Me]. In 469vām Urs Sharīf, Dargāh Hazrat Khvājā KhanŪn Sāhab [The 469th Exalited Urs at the Shrine of His Excellence Khwaja Khanun Sahab]. Gwalior : n.p. Singer Milton . 1972 . When a Great Tradition Modernizes . New York : Praeger . Srinivas Mysore N. . 1952 . Religion...

... in China is simply and clearly organized. The first chapter illustrates that the region had become extremely volatile after decades of Qing misrule and repeated incursions by Sufi leaders called khwajas. The second details, with masterful precision, the way in which uprisings emerged one after another...

... p. Thesis Colorado State College. 8329. HAMIED, KHWAJA ABDUL. Addresses and speeches, by Khwaja abdul Hamid. [2d ed.] Rawalpindi, Directorate of Education [1966] 239, 70 p. 8330. HUQ, MD. NOORUL. An application of the United States techniques and practices by the secondary schools in East Pakistan...

.... The second type of essay focuses on the careers of two particular gures at different points in history: the polymath Abu Raihan al-Biruni (Siddiqui) and Akbar s nance minister Khwaja Shah Mansur (Afzal Husain). Both essays discuss important points B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 1183 in the life...

... an attractive abridgement of a classic. N. GERALD BARRIER University of Missouri, Columbia Dastanbuy: A Diary of the Indian Revolt of 1857. BY MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB. TRANSLATED BY KHWAJA AHMAD FARUQI. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1970. 96 pp. Glossary, Chronology, Index. $6.95. Despite its limited...

... attempt to imagine coexistence in the Indian context must first engage with the impact of the trauma of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan. Kumar focuses on fictional narratives produced a few years after partition by writers such as Saadat Hasan Manto, Khwaja Ahmad...

..., Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja, and Tristan Zajonc, “Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data,” John F. Kennedy School of Government Working Paper, no. RWP05-024, March 2005) on household utilization of madrassahs and other schooling in Pakistan. Andrabi et al. focus exclusively on full...

... for. The “Merchants” section of the volume offers four snapshots of commercial life in the Mongol world. Yihao Qiu's chapter on the merchant-spy Jaʿfar Khwāja reveals the variety of political and military responsibilities undertaken by merchants on the Mongols’ behalf. Matanya Gill's study of the Iraqi merchant Jamāl...

... in the collection seem irrelevant. I cannot understand why they have been included except that most were written by or to leading figures of the time, e.g., A. M. Khwaja (p. 11), M. R. Chotani (p. 12), Liaqat Ali Khan (p. 17), Jawaharlal Nehru (p. 46) and B. C. Roy (p. 238). Other letters appear to be important...

... Wali-Allah with a discussion of several of his contemporaries, particularly the Sufi figures, Mirza Mazhar Jan-i Janan, Khwaja Mir Dard, and Shah Kalim Allah. He also presents a discussion of the standard eighteenthcentury curriculum as developed at the Farangi Mahal madrasa in Lucknow. But these 202...

... views, especially when matters even remotely related to Islam were concerned, are anything but "radical." Sir Abdul Karim Ghuznavi seems to personify this group, although Khwaja Nazimuddin and the elder members of the Suhrawardy clan are not far behind. One case cited in this connection is suffrage...

... known ruins on the hill of Koh-I-Khwaja, he made a thrilling discovery. Hidden behind later masonry were the remains of a Buddhist sanctuary, with a fresco . . . while another part of the building held wall-paintings that were probably older, distinctly Hellenistic in style. Despite the fact...

... are identified: nonvernacular«jAr<5r/(represented by such persons as Khwaja Nazimuddin), vernacular ashraf (Fazlul Haq), counter-vernacular ashraf (Shah Azizur Rahman), and counter-nonvernacular ashraf (Husain Shaheed Suhrawardy). She notes that in many cases there are changes of views by individuals...

.... In its heyday, Surat was known by Indian Muslims as the port of embarkation for the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). They called Surat "Babul Macca," Gateway to Mecca. The town is protected by three important Sufi saints (pir), Khwaja Dana, Khwaja Didar, and Khwaja Madani, buried at different places within...

... of essays that look at Xinjiang. In the first, “Profit and Protection: Emin Khwaja and the Qing Conquest of Central Asia, 1759–1777,” historian of China and Central Asia K wangmin K im offers a Muslim perspective on the way this territory, which now makes up the northeastern-most section of the People's...

.... The second type of essay focuses on the careers of two particular gures at different points in history: the polymath Abu Raihan al-Biruni (Siddiqui) and Akbar s nance minister Khwaja Shah Mansur (Afzal Husain). Both essays discuss important points ...

... Mahmood), Afro-Balochis in Lyari (Adeem Suhail), queer Pakistani poets in Chicago (Omar Kasmani), Sufi storytellers in Lahore (Amen Jaffer), khwaja siras on stage (Claire Pamment), and more. The construction of the volume's title is deliberate and illuminating. In the first place, it attends...

.../1603), a shaykh belonging to the family of the Central Asian saintly power broker, Khwāja Ahrār. After Bāqī Bi'llāh's training in Kabul, his move to the new Mughal center at Delhi marked the beginning of the Indian transformation of the Naqshbandiyya, promoting affiliation to its holy men among first...