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The Making of History

Essays Presented to Irfan Habib

By: Irfan Habib,K. N. Panikkar,T. J. Byres,Utsa Patnaik

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The Making of History

Essays Presented to Irfan Habib

By: Irfan Habib,K. N. Panikkar,T. J. Byres,Utsa Patnaik

A Marxist scholar and historian, Irfan Habib has been a towering presence in the Indian intellectual scene for over four decades. His formidable intellectual reputation, established in the sixties with the publication of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, broadened as he became an authority in the entire area of Indian history from ancient to modern. Professor Habib's undiminished commitment to the cause of socialism is reflected in these highly original and bold analyses of Marxist historiography and theories of socialist construction. This volume comprises essays from scholars around the world representing the wide variety of Habib's interests and contributions. Ranging from history to politics and economics, the essays cover both the medieval period and modern India, as well as theories for the future of this emerging superpower. This special edition also features an essay by Irfan Habib, originally published as The Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey, covering the Delhi Sultanate, the Vijayanagara economy and the economy of Mughal India.

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Anthem Press

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1843310538

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9781843310532

Essays in Indian History

Towards a Marxist Perception ; With, The Economic History of Medieval India: a Survey

By: Irfan Habib

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Essays in Indian History

Towards a Marxist Perception ; With, The Economic History of Medieval India: a Survey

By: Irfan Habib

This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.

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Anthem Press

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1843310252

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9781843310259

Inquilab

Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution

By: Syed Irfan Habib

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Inquilab

Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution

By: Syed Irfan Habib

Extolled for his extraordinary courage and sacrifice, Bhagat Singh is one of our most venerated freedom fighters. He is valourised for his martyrdom, and rightly so, but in the ensuing enthusiasm, most of us forget, or consciously ignore, his contributions as an intellectual and a thinker. He not only sacrificed his life, like many others did before and after him, but he also had a vision of independent India. In the current political climate, when it has become routine to appropriate Bhagat Singh as a nationalist icon, not much is known or spoken about his nationalist vision. Inquilab provides a corrective to such a situation by bringing together some of Bhagat Singh's seminal writings on his pluralist and egalitarian vision. It compels the reader to see that while continuing to celebrate the memory of Bhagat Singh as a martyr and a nationalist, we must also learn about his intellectual legacy. This important book also makes a majority of these writings, hitherto only available in Hindi, accessible for the first time to the English-language readership.

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Simon and Schuster

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9392099886

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9789392099885

History of civilizations of Central Asia

Development in contrast: from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century

By: Adle, Chahryar,Baipakov, Karl M.,Habib, Irfan,UNESCO

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History of civilizations of Central Asia

Development in contrast: from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century

By: Adle, Chahryar,Baipakov, Karl M.,Habib, Irfan,UNESCO

The period treated in this volume is highlighted by the slow retreat of nomadism and the progressive increase of sedentary polities owing to a fundamental change in military technology: Furthermore, this period certainly saw a growing contrast in the pace of economic and cultural progress between Central Asia and Europe. The internal growth of the European economies and the influx of silver from the New World gave Atlantic Europe an increasingly important position in world trade and caused a major shift in inland Asian trade. Thus, 1850 marks the end of the total sway of pre-modern culture as the extension of colonial dominance was accompanied by the influx of modern ideas.

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UNESCO Publishing

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9231038761

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9789231038761

Jihad Or Itjihad

Religious Orthodoxy And Modern Science In Contemporary India

By: S. Irfan Habib

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Jihad Or Itjihad

Religious Orthodoxy And Modern Science In Contemporary India

By: S. Irfan Habib

While Europe was still stuck in the Dark Ages, scientists in the Islamic world were tranlsating Aristotle, and making huge strides in astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. Two thousand years later, the idea of 'scientific progress' seems to be locked in a hopeless war with Islam. When and how did Islam lose its enthusiasm for the workings of the natural world? S. Irfan Habib, one of the country's foremost historians, traces teh trajectomy of how 'mainstream' Islam came to question modern science - beginning with the reformers of the nineteenth century and ending with present-day idealogoues. Through the lives of famous men like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, he demonstrates that the modern-day promulagtion of Islam and its followers as 'anti-modern' and 'anti-science' is a myth that leads, quite literally, to explosives consequences. Habib also channels his scholarship to both history and Islam to question the controversial idea of 'Islamic science' as a category distinct from 'modern', 'Eurocentric' science. In an engaging, easy style that belies the weightiness of the questions it seeks to answer, Jihad or Itijihad challenges both stereotypes and propaganda. This book places in perspective the relationship between Islam and science today.

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Harper Collins

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9350295563

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9789350295564

Islamism and Democracy in India

The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami

By: Irfan Ahmad

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Islamism and Democracy in India

The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami

By: Irfan Ahmad

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India. This book offers an in-depth examination of India's Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI, exploring political Islam's complex relationship with democracy and providing a rare window into the Islamist trajectory in a Muslim-minority context

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Princeton University Press

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0691139202

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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century

By: Irfan Shahîd

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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century

By: Irfan Shahîd

This fourth installment of Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century resumes the previous volume's discussion of the Ghassanids by examining their economic, social, and cultural history. First, Irfan Shahîd focuses on the economy of the Ghassanids and presents information on various trade routes and fairs. Second, the author reconstructs Ghassanid daily life by discussing topics as varied as music, food, medicine, the role of women, and horse racing. Shahîd concludes the volume with an examination of cultural life, including descriptions of urbanization, Arabic script, chivalry, and poetry. Throughout the volume, the author reveals the history of a fully developed and unique Christian-Arab culture. Shahîd exhaustively describes the society of the Ghassanids, and their contributions to the cultural environment that persisted in Oriens during the sixth century and continued into the period of the Umayyad caliphate.

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Harvard University Press

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0884023478

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9780884023470

Pindi Calling

By: Irfan Haq

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Pindi Calling

By: Irfan Haq

Pindi Calling is a cautionary tale of deception about how lying to make things seem better always comes to a painful end.

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268

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Trafford Publishing

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1426913648

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9781426913648

Rome and the Arabs

A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs

By: Irfan Shahîd

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Rome and the Arabs

A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs

By: Irfan Shahîd

The Arabs played an important role in Roman-controlled Oriens in the four centuries or so that elapsed from the Settlement of Pompey in 64 B.C. to the reign of Diocletian, A.D. 284–305. In Rome and the Arabs Irfan Shahîd explores this extensive but poorly known role and traces the phases of the Arab-Roman relationship, especially in the climactic third century, which witnessed the rise of many powerful Roman Arabs such as the Empresses of the Severan Dynasty, Emperor Philip, and the two rulers of Palmyra, Odenathus and Zenobia. Philip the Arab, the author argues, was the first Christian Roman emperor and Abgar the Great (ca. 200 A.D.) was the first Near Eastern ruler to adopt Christianity. In addition to political and military matters, the author also discusses Arab cultural contributions, pointing out the role of the Hellenized and Romanized Arabs in the urbanization of the region and in the progress of Christianity, particularly in Edessa under the Arab Abgarids.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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0884021157

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9780884021155

Religion as Critique

Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace

By: Irfan Ahmad

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Religion as Critique

Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace

By: Irfan Ahmad

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to "others," including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique. On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women's equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.

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UNC Press Books

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1469635100

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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

By: Irfan Shahîd

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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

By: Irfan Shahîd

This book elucidates the birth of the new relationship between the Roman Empire and the Arabs and the rise of its institutional forms. Shahîd discusses the participation of the Arab foederati in Byzantium's wars with her neighbors--the Persians and the Goths--during which those Arab allies contributed to the welfare of the imperium and the ecclesia.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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0884021165

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Heaven's Bankers

Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance

By: Harris Irfan

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Heaven's Bankers

Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance

By: Harris Irfan

A leading Islamic finance banker sheds light on an industry with growing global influence: “A superb introduction to a fascinating subject” (Financial Times) A trillion-dollar financial industry has revolutionized the global economy. Governments and corporations across the Islamic world have turned to finance that complies with Shari‘a law in order to fund economic growth. Even in the West, Islamic finance became an important alternative source of funding when the conventional finance industry was reeling from the effects of the financial crisis. From its origins in the seventh century, Islamic finance has sought to develop core ethical principles that are based in the foundations of Islam and Shari‘a. But with an increasing Western interest, is it able to remain true to the principles of its faith? Can it maintain its ideals of social justice? Or is Islamic finance guilty of the very dangers it seeks to avoid. In Heaven's Bankers, Harris Irfan, one of the world's leading Islamic finance bankers, gives unparalleled insight into the heart of this secretive industry. From his personal experience of working with leading bankers, scholars and lawyers, he debunks the myths of Islamic banking, analyzes its greatest deals, and looks to the future of a system that has reprioritized the very nature of money itself.

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275

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Abrams

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1468311832

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9781468311839

A Christian View of Islam

By: Thomas F. Michel,Irfan A. Omar

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A Christian View of Islam

By: Thomas F. Michel,Irfan A. Omar

A collection of essays on Christian-Muslim relations by one of the world's leading experts.

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348

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Orbis Books

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160833404X

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9781608334049

Inquilab

Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution

By: Syed Irfan Habib

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Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution

By: Syed Irfan Habib

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Simon and Schuster

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Essays in Indian History

Towards a Marxist Perception ; With, The Economic History of Medieval India: a Survey

By: Irfan Habib

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Essays in Indian History

Towards a Marxist Perception ; With, The Economic History of Medieval India: a Survey

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This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.

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Anthem Press

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The Agrarian System of Mughal India

1556-1707

By: Irfan Habib

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The Agrarian System of Mughal India

1556-1707

By: Irfan Habib

This book presents a detailed historical analysis of the agrarian conditions in pre-colonial India. It examines areas like land revenue, administration, and agrarian economy and social structure in the Mughal period. The new edition includes a new prologue.

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OUP India

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0198077424

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9780198077428

A People's History of India 14

Economic History of India, AD 1206-1526, the Period of the Delhi Sultanate and the Vijayanagara Empire

By: Irfan Habib

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A People's History of India 14

Economic History of India, AD 1206-1526, the Period of the Delhi Sultanate and the Vijayanagara Empire

By: Irfan Habib

This volume explores the economic and social history of India from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. It describes the agrarian order, urban economy, and trading world during the Delhi Sultanate, the subsequent period of political divisions, and conditions in the Vijayanagara Empire, which flourished during this period in south India.

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Tulika Books

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8193401573

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9788193401576

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