{"product_id":"who-is-a-muslim-orientalism-and-literary-populisms-hardback-9780823290123","title":"Who Is a Muslim?; Orientalism and Literary Populisms (Hardback) 9780823290123","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWho Is a Muslim?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOrientalism and Literary Populisms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaryam Wasif Khan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823290123\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho Is a Muslim?\u003c\/i\u003e argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question \"Who is a Muslim?,\" a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Who Is a Muslim?   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Mahometan\/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale   21\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Hindustani\/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony   53\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e Nation\/\u003ci\u003eQaum\u003c\/i\u003e: The \"Musalmans\" of India   87\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Martyr\/\u003ci\u003eMujāhid\u003c\/i\u003e: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel   126\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e Modern\/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel   165\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Us, People \/ People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu   209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   221\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   225\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   255\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580426809624,"sku":"9780823290123","price":81.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/who-is-a-muslim-orientalism-and-literary-populisms-hardback-9780823290123","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}