Destiny Disrupted

256 DESTINY DISRUPTED hadith-amounted to a commentary on the Law. The Qur'an did not pre- scribe principles to guide human behav ...

THE REFORM MOVEMENTS 257 advocated ideas not found in the Qur'an were innovators. Both the Shi'i and the Sufis belonged to this ...

258 DESTINY DISRUPTED Ahmed's family had adapted to the new order. His grandfather served the East India Company in positions of ...

THE REFORM MOVEMENTS 259 British was not permissible since the British did not restrict or interfere with Muslim devotions. Fina ...

260 DESTINY DISRUPTED evolved with the human community in the natural course of things-just like art, agriculture, and technolog ...

THE REFORM MOVEMENTS 261 ing accessible to Indian Muslims by translating and publishing the impor- tant books ofWestern cultures ...

262 DESTINY DISRUPTED Confusingly enough, they settled dose to an Iranian town also called Asadabad, which has given rise to a l ...

THE REFORM MOVEMENTS protege ofJamaluddin's on the Afghan throne. They sensed what he was up to. In any case, Azam moved to Iran ...

264 DESTINY DISRUPTED group Khalifa Omar appointed to pick his successor. That shura had to present its nominee to the Muslims o ...

THE REFORM MOVEMENTS 265 ics and despots had done the same in other religions too, includ- ing Christianity. In France, at this ...

266 DESTINY DISRUPTED Russia. Once his journal folded, he had nothing to keep him in Europe anymore, so he moved to ... Uzbekis ...

THE REFORM MOVEMENTS 267 declaring the tobacco concession un-Islamic. Well, that finally snapped the shah's patience. He sent tr ...

268 DESTINY DISRUPTED an army. He had no official position in any government. He never founded a political party or headed up a ...

14 ~ Industry, Constitutions, and Nationalism 1163-1336 AH 1750-1918 CE ABDUL WAHHAB, Sayyid Jamaluddin-i-Afghan, and Sayyid Ahm ...

270 DESTINY DISRUPTED year 1800 CE, beginning with the steam engine. Often, we speak of great inventions as if they make their o ...

INDUSTRY, CONSTITUTIONS, AND NATIONALISM 271 the imperial bureacracy had the capacity, and why would it bother to save something ...

272 DESTINY DISRUPTED textile looms. Anyone who possessed a power loom could now outproduce rival cloth makers and drive them ou ...

INDUSTRY, CONSTITUTIONS, AND NATIONALISM 273 The connection between people and place weakened as new eco- nomic realities deman ...

274 DESTINY DISRUPTED which was interwoven with a universal assumption that the public realm be- longed exclusively to men and t ...

INDUSTRY, CONSTITUTIONS, AND NATIONALISM 275 by docks; yet the fundamental core of Muslim life, the prayer ritual that must be p ...