SIR SAYYID AHMAD KHAN AND MUSLIM MODERNIZATION IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN by Malik, Hafeez - 1980

Columbia Univ Pr. Good. 1981. Hardcover. 0231049706 . White dj soiled, rubbed and worn, edge frayed. Slightly musty.; Studies In Oriental Culture; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.0 inches; 340 pages .

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1980. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed By Author. This is a study of the central figure in the 19th century Muslim Nationalist awakening who sought to revitalize the Muslim community in India by the introduction of Western ideas; the author provides the biographical and historical background of Ahmad Khan's acomplishments, tracing his relations with other Indian leaders and placing him in the larger framework of the Islamic world; inscribed, signed, and dated on the front end paper by the author, a political scientist who was President of the Pakistan Council of the Asia Society, Director of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and editor of the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; includes a frontispiece portrait of Ahmad Khan (black cloth with gold lettering; white dust jacket with portrait of Ahmad Khan on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)