Between Muslim Nationalists and Nationalist Muslims

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Mawlana Sayyid Abul al-Ala Mawduri (1903-79) is widely considered among the most influential of all Islamic thinkers of the twentieth century. His ideas have greatly influenced Islamic movements within his native India-Pakistan subcontinent to the Middle East and Maghrib in the west, and to Southeast Asia in the east due to widely available translation of his works in Arabic, English and other languages. His voluminous interpretation and the translation of the Quran is unquestionably a masterpiece of Urdu literature. The Mawlanaâ€™s racy style of Urdu prose is simply unmatched in traditional religious scholarship. The author of numerous works, Mawlana Mawdudi articulated his particular views on four major aspects of collective human life-religion, politics, economy, and society. Seen together his writings constitute a clear, coherent, if controversial statement of Islam. In addition to the matters pertaining to Islam and Muslims in general, he wrote and spoke about issues facing fellow Indian Muslims in the first half of the twentieth century. One of these questions pertained to the future of his own native Hyderabad State in the Deccan, Southern India. Although the Mawlanaâ€™s views on Islam and the future of Muslims in British India have been the subject of numerous polemics, peans, and academic works, none to date have been written about his views on the future of Hyderabad. This article attempts precisely that.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Omar Khalidi

Dr. Omar Khalidi is a staff member of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecutre, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. He was born and raised in Hyderabad, Deccan. Dr. Khalidi was educated at Wichita State University, BA (1980). He lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and worked at King Saud University in the 1980s, and then moved back to the United States to obtain an M.A. at Harvard University, 1991, then earned a PhD at University of Wales at Lampeter, Wales, UK, in 1994. He is the author of several books and articles on art and architecture, and on religious freedom at various forums and universities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Malaysia, India and Pakistan. His books include, An Indian Passage to Europe: The Travels of Mahdi Hasan Fath Nawaz Jang, 2005; the Hyderabad Residency: An Outpost of the Raj, 2005; Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in India, 2003; Indian Muslims Since Independence, 1996; Hyderabad: After the Fall, 1988, "Approaches to Mosque Design in North America," 1999; Romance of the Golconda Diamonds, 1999, "The Architecture and Campus Planning of Osmania University," 2003, and "American Architecture of Islamic Inspiration." 2004.