Bøger af Francis Robinson

These essays address key themes in the history of the Muslims of South Asia: conversion to Islam, the impact of print, the emergence of Islam as a worldly religion, the process of 'secularization, ' the relationship between religion and politics, and the diverse responses to the most important scholarly contributions to the field over the last twenty years

The separate Muslim front in Indian politics was mainly led and supported by men from the United Provinces. This book examines the circumstances in which the separate Muslim front built up and crumbled away during the first period of effective separatist politics which ended in 1923, and then analyzes the different groups which at various times supported it. Francis Robinson's analysis of different Muslim political groupings is supported by over 130 short biographies which in themselves represent a substantial work of reference.

Volume 5 of The New Cambridge History of Islam examines the history of Muslim societies from 1800 to the present.

Why some Indian Muslims under British rule should have organised politics on a communal basis is one of the most important problems in the history of the subcontinent.