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The Wahhabi movement in India
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The Wahhabi movement in India / Qeyamuddin Ahmad.
ISBN
1000082024
1000082040
1000082067
1003054048
9781000082029
9781000082043
9781000082067
9781003054047
0367514834
9780367514839
Edition
Second revised edition.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (369 pages)
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Biographical / Historical Note
Qeyamuddin Ahmad joined the Bihar Educational Service in 1952 and was later transfered to Patna University where he taught History from 1964. Among his publications are Corpus of Arabic and Persian Inscriptions of Bihar (1973) and an abridged edition of Edward Sachau's English translation of Alberuni's India with a new introduction (1983). He was Associate Editor of Comprehensive History of Bihar Vol. II Part I (1983) and Part II (1986) published by the K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna.
Summary
Founded by Sayyid Ahmad (1786-1831) of Rae Bareli, the Wahhabi Movement in India was a vigorous movement for socio-religious reforms in Indo-Islamic society in the nineteenth century with strong political undercurrents. It stood for a strong affirmation of Tauhid (unity of God), the efficacy of ijtihad (the right of further interpretation of the Quran and the Sunnah, or of forming a new opinion by applying analogy) and the rejection of bid'at (innovation). It remained active for half a century. Sayyid Ahmad's writings show an awareness of the increasing British presence in the country and he regarded British India as a daru'l harb (abode of war). In 1826 he migrated and established an operational base in the independent tribal belt of the North Western Frontier area. After his death in the battle of Balakote, the Movement slackened for some time but his adherents particularly Wilayet Ali and Enayat Ali of Patna revived the work and broad-based its activities. The climax of the Movement was reached in the Ambeyla War (1863) during which the English army suffered serious losses at the hands of the Wahhabis. This led the Government to take stern measures to suppress the Movement. Investigations were launched, the leaders were arrested and sentenced to long-term imprisonments and their properties confiscated. That broke the back of the Movement but it continued to be a potential source of trouble to the government. The Movement does not fit in neatly in any one of the groups and categories into which the history of the early resistance to British rule has been divided by some of the writers on the subject. It cut across some of them time-wise and theme-wise. The existing studies on the subject do not offer a comprehensive profile of the Movement and fail to analyse its nature and the reasons for its failure politically. This well researched study drawing on a vast array of contemporary records, many of them for the first time, seeks to fill this gap and presents an integrated account of the rise and growth of the Movement, its operation over the entire area and period of its existence, its impact and reasons for its failure. Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Ahmad, Qeyamuddin. Wahhabi Movement in India. Milton : Routledge, ©2020
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Abbreviations
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Chapter 1: Genesis of the Wahhabi Movement in India
Chapter 2: Sayyid Ahmad and the Early Phase of the Movement
Chapter 3: The Post-Balakote Phase, 1831-43
Chapter 4: Revival and Consolidation of the Movement
Chapter 5: The Organisational Base of the Movement
Chapter 6: The Wahhabis and the Movement of 1857-59
Appendix III: List of some terms used in the Wahhabis' correspondence and the aliases by which the chief 'conspirators' were known
Appendix IV: English translation of a joint letter addressed by Abdullah and Sayyid Imran to a Frontier Tribal Chief on the eve of the Ambeyla Campaign
Appendix V: Extracts from A Regulation (Regulation III of 1818) for the Confinement of State Prisoners Passed by the Vice-President in the Council on the 7th April, 1818
Appendix VI: A Case-Record of some of the high-handed and arbitrary methods of J.H. Reily and N. Ghose, D.I.G. and Place of publication not identified, Police, Special Department, Lower Provinces
Appendix VII: Texts of some letters of Sayyid Ahmad and his chief disciple, Shah Isma'il and the interpolations made in them
Appendix VIII: Ab'ul Kalam Azad's 'Review' of Tadhkira-i-Sādqa (1901)
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 7: The British Campaigns Against the Wahhabis on the North-Western Frontier
Chapter 8: State Trials of Wahhabi Leaders, 1863-65
Chapter 9: The Concluding Phase of the Movement
Chapter 10: Wahhabi Missionary Literature and Polemical Anti-Wahhabi Writings
Chapter 11: An Appraisal of the Wahhabi Movement
Appendix I: English translation of the text of the Sanad of Khilāfat given by Sayyid Ahmad to Shah Muhammad Husain at the time of his visit to Patna
Appendix II: English translation of the text of Sayyid Ahmad's letter addressed to Raja Hindu Rao
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