Husain Ahmad Madani

Barbara Metcalf is Director of the Center for South Asian Studies and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, both at the University of Michigan.

• Sources and AcknowledgementsMaps INTRODUCTION 1 THE ARREST OF THE “UNDESIRABLE INDIANS,” 1916Maulana Mahmudul Hasan, Deoband, and new political strategiesThe War and the “Silk Letter Conspiracy” 2 “THE PRISONER OF MALTA,” 1916–1920The tribunalTravelMaltaEveryday routines: mutual bonds, common commitmentsColonial internment as a school for anti-colonialism 3 FLASHBACK: BECOMING AN ISLAMIC SCHOLAR IN COLONIAL INDIA AND MEDINAThe familyEveryday life and education in TandaThe formation of an Islamic scholarThe Sufi pathA sectarian conflictIndia, 1909–1911 and 1913Maulana Husain Ahmad at thirty-five 4 BECOMING A “NATIONALIST MUSLIM”: INDIA IN THE 1920sBombay, the Khilafat Movement, and political awakeningThe Shaikhul Hind, Maulana Madani, and non-cooperationThe double strand of activism: the “Karachi Seven” and Islamic renewalCalcutta and SylhetPrincipal of DeobandMass politics, minority politics 5 WHO SPEAKS FOR MUSLIMS? THE CHALLENGES OF THE 1930sMaulana Madani’s characterNon-cooperation and round tablesIzhar-i Haqiqat, “A Declaration of Truth”The elections of 1936Defending “Composite Nationalism”Differences: against the ‘ulama, among the ‘ulamaThe Shi‘a–Sunni dispute in LucknowTransitions 6 “THE GLORIOUS WARRIOR”: AGAINST BRITAIN, AGAINST PARTITIONA voice crying in the wilderness?Words as weapons: anti-colonialism, Muslim freedom fighters, sacred IndiaProtesting and negotiating throughout the warDividing IndiaPartition CONCLUSION: INDIAN INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONTINUING JIHADA final storyIn conclusion BibliographyIndex