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Urdu literature > How not to Write the History of Urdu Literature HOW NOT TO WRITE THE HISTORY OF URDU LITERATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS ON URDU AND ISLAM This book collects 18 essays covering themes that range across my lifelong experience of contact with Urdu speakers in South Asia. The title essay is an attack upon those scholars who write the history of Urdu literature stressing its inferiority to English literature instead of highlighting the qualities which make it great. During my years of work on Urdu and its rich literature, I have aimed to get to know as wide a range as possible of Urdu speakers. Doing this involved learning about Islam, and the very different ways of life of urban and rural speakers of Urdu. Many of the essays in the section on Islam attack the fundamentalist interpretation and refute the arguments of the fundamentalists. PART TWO 3. Aijaz Ahmed and Ghalib 4. The Urdu Ghazal: A Rejoinder to Frances W. Pritchett and William L. 5. Leadership in the All-India Progressive Writers’ Movement, 1935-1947 6. Urdu in Independent India: History and Prospects 7. Aziz Ahmad, South Asia, Islam and Urdu 8. Some Notes on Hindi and Urdu 10. A Day in a Pakistani Village 11. A Day in Jhelum, Pakistan 12. Meeting a Pīr’s Disciple 13. Strands of Muslim Identity in South Asia 14. The Concept of Islam in Urdu Poetry 15. Salman Rushdie, Islam and Multiculturalism 16. Maududi and Islamic Obscurantism 17. Inter-faith Dialogue – and Other Matters 18. An Infidel Among Believers Oxford University Press, India (1999)
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