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- Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations (Cambridge: Cambridge Univer-
sity Press, 1997), p. I03.
IO. V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (New York: Vintage
Books, 1982), p. 129.
II. Ibid., p. 132.
- Social Studies for Class 6 (Lahore: Punjab Textbook Board, 2003), p. 72.
- Faisal Shahzad, "My Beloved and Peaceful Ummah," New York Times
(May 15, 20IO). http://documents.nytimes.com/e-mail-from-faisal-shahzad
#text/pi.
- Javed Chaudhry, "Aafia Siddiqui, Qaum tumharay Sath hai," Daily Jang
(August 6, 2008).
- Nasrullah Bhatti, "American qaidi Simon Narwan aur Aafia Siddiqui," Daily
Waqt (August 26, 2008).
- I want to label these invocations as exempla, following the definition from
Jacques Le Goff: "a short story intended as truthful to be used inside a dis-
course (generally as sermon) in order to persuade an audience through an edi-
fying lesson." See Jacques Le Goff, "L' 'Exemplum' Medieval," in Claude
Bremond, Jacques Le Goff, and Jean-Claude Schmitt, "L' Exemplum": Typol-
ogie des Sources du Mayen Age Occidental (Turnhout: Brepols, 1982), pp.
15-ro7. The events of Muhammad bin Qasim's campaigns echoes in its
circulation, doing the pedagogic work of the exemplum and also, in its con-
textual malleability, the didactic work.
- Another starkly violent reminder of historical memory's pernicious grip on
socially fractured presents was the terrorist attack of Dylann Roof in a
Charleston church on June 17, 2015. As Eric Foner noted, "Roof has a sense
of history, warped though it may be. He claims to have read 'hundreds' of
slave narratives, all demonstrating, to his satisfaction, how benevolently
slaves were treated-an idea long discredited by historians, but still en-
countered on white-supremacist websites and conservative talk-radio
shows." See Eric Foner, "The Historical Roots of Dylann Roof's Racism,"
The Nation (July 20-27, 2015). http://www.thenation.com/article/the-historical
-roots-of-dylann-roofs-racism.
- Muhammad Habib, "Arab Conquest of Sind," Islamic Culture 3 (1929): 184
- R. C. Majumdar, "The Arab Invasion of India," Journal of Indian History IO
(1931): 13.
- S. H. Hodivala, Studies in Inda-Muslim History: A Critical Commentary on
Elliot and Dawson's History of India (Bombay:[s.n.]1939), p. 83.
- See H. T. Lambrick, Sind, before the Muslim Conquest (Hyderabad: Sindh
Adabi Board, 1973), Peter Hardy, "Is the Chach Nama Intelligible to the Histo-
rian as Political Theory?" ed., H. Khuhro, Sind through the Centuries (Karachi:
Oxford D;piversity Press, 1981), pp. 111-117, and Yohanan Friedmann, "The
Origins and Significance of the Chach Nama" in ed., Yohanan Friedmann,
Islam in Asia, vol. 1: South Asia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984), pp. 23-37.
- Friedmann, The Origins and Significance of the Chach Nii.ma, p. 28.
- See Irfan Habib, "Linguistic Materials from Eighth-Century Sind: An Explo-
ration of the Chachniima," in Recording the Progress of Indian History:
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