Muslims acquires the second largest position in Indian population. India being a home for several eminent Muslim personalities, Muslimsreformation hasn’t been accountable ineducational, social, cultural, religious, economic, healthand... more
Muslims acquires the second largest position in Indian population. India being a home for several eminent Muslim personalities, Muslimsreformation hasn’t been accountable ineducational, social, cultural, religious, economic, healthand political arena. The key tool for reforms is self-transformation. The life of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Bareli is worth to learn and follow. His life and teachings adds value for every individual in self-transformationin specific and in Muslim reforms in general. This paper has focused on reforming of IndianMuslims by providing the understandings of life and teachings of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Bareli in every aspects of life. Finally, on conclusion the efforts have imparted for the need of adopting the learning’s from Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Bareli life and the benefits attend by it.
Syed Ameer Ali is widely regarded as an outstanding scholar, erudite, politician, jurist, writer and Muslim leader of the British India who left an everlasting imprint on the state of Indian Muslims. He excelled in Islamic jurisprudence... more
Syed Ameer Ali is widely regarded as an outstanding scholar, erudite, politician, jurist, writer and Muslim leader of the British India who left an everlasting imprint on the state of Indian Muslims. He excelled in Islamic jurisprudence and was known to have succeeded in reconciling modern progress and enlightenment with Islām. A lawyer and judge by profession, Ameer Ali was very different from his contemporaries in terms of his scholarship and political ideology. Primarily known as a jurist, Ameer Ali was the first Muslim to be appointed as a Calcutta High Court judge and the first Indian ever to be elected to the Privy Council. His scholarly treatises on history, culture and law continue to be widely appreciated by the readers of the East and the West. However, the vital role that Ameer Ali played in the political arena in the Indo-Pak subcontinent is not much known. His contribution to the social and political regeneration of the pre-partition Muslims as well as their cultural revival and instilling in them a sense of Muslim renaissance movement are to be inevitably appreciated.
The recasting of women in the context of colonial modernity in India invariably projected the upper caste Hindu woman as the ideal Indian woman. Historians over the years have engaged with this problematic domesticating of women. However,... more
The recasting of women in the context of colonial modernity in India invariably projected the upper caste Hindu woman as the ideal Indian woman. Historians over the years have engaged with this problematic domesticating of women. However, there are very few studies that engage with the complex terrain of gender among communities imagined outside the contours of the mainstream ‘national.’ Women’s movement in these communities had to engage with both the phantasm of othered masculinities as threat to the ideal Hindu women and also the alienation they felt from the image of a nation that was imagined in the form of a goddess least resembling her selfhood. This essay attempts to trace the engagement of Muslim women with modernity in Kerala, with reference to Muslim reform movements. I argue that the exclusion of Muslim women’s engagement with modernity from nationalist histories presages the predicament of Muslims in the postcolonial nation as antithesis to the ‘national modern’ and from feminist histories as victims without subjecthood.
Key words: Kerala modernity, Muslim women, Reform Movements, nation, minority
