The language of Secular Islam

In her study of Urdu language politics in late colonial India, Kavita Saraswathi Datla traces the rise and eventual demise of an alternative Urdu movement that envisioned the language not as a marker of Muslim religious identity, but as a means to articulate a modern secular nationalism with roots i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Megan Brankley Abbas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Islamic Thought 2015-01-01
Series:American Journal of Islam and Society
Online Access:https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/960