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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.
Mullah Nasiruddin is a persona who appear in several anecdotes that are essentially witty, at times wise and philosophical, however, amidst the subtle humour lies an underlying lesson that need to be learnt. The stories incorporate moments and individuals from all walks of life. In the introduction of ‘The Stories of Mullah Nasiruddin’, Satyajit Ray had commented, “It’s a bit difficult to conjecture from the stories the nature of Mullah Nasiruddin. Sometimes he appeared to be a fool, while occasionally he seemed to be wise. Now, it’s up to you to decide.” Throughout the ages, the character of Mullah Nasiruddin has been shaped by the views, sensation and cognition of the masses, that eventually has accredited universality and century-long survival within several languages. The present image of Nasiruddin has been both deconstructed and reconstructed and therefore one should visualize and portray him accordingly as people have perceived him through his anecdotes. ‘Tales of the Khoja’, happens to be the earliest English translation of the tales of Mullah Nasiruddin. The stories are Ewing’s most significant translation that appeared in ‘Aunt Judy’s’ in April-December 1874. The tales, Horatia K.F. Eden writes, are “thoroughly Eastern in character and full of dry wit.”
Sovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution.
Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.