Muslims of South Asia represent a major chunk of the billion and a half strong Islamic ummah. Within the south Asian subcontinent, Muslims of the Deccan represent a highly visible, upwardly mobile, culturally productive segment of the ummah. However, systematic work on the history of the growth and evolution of the Deccani Muslims based on primary sources is lacking. To date no work exists on the history of the Deccani Muslims. Based on thorough research using primary sources, field observations, and persona interviews, Omar Khalidi’s work Muslims in the Deccan: A Historical Survey, fills a major gap in the history of Islam in South Asia. No student of Islam in South Asia can afford to ignore this highly original, densely documented, flawlessly written work.
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.
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