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Religion and Politics in Muslim Society: Order and Conflict in Pakistan. By Akbar S. Ahmed. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1983. Pp. xiii, 215; 4 maps, 10 figures, illustrations. £25.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Francis Robinson
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway College, University of London

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References

1 For recent work in this field see: Metcalf, B. D., Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860–1900 (Princeton, 1982)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Minault, G., The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India (New York, 1982).Google Scholar

2 See, for instance, Gallagher, J., Johnson, G. and Seal, A. (eds), Locality, Province and Nation: Essays on Indian Politics, 1870–1940 (Cambridge, 1973).Google Scholar

3 I have developed aspects of this point in the following publications: Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 (Oxford, 1982Google Scholar); The Veneration of Teachers is Islam: Its Modern Significance’, History Today, XXX (1980), 22–5Google Scholar; and Islam and Muslim society in South Asia’, Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.), 17, 2 (1983), 185203.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See Robinson, , Atlas of the Islamic World, chs 4 and 5.Google Scholar