Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity - 9780415149655

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Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic IdentityThe Search for Saladin\nAuthor(s): Akbar Ahmed\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415149655, 978-0415149655\nSynopsis\nEvery generation needs to reinterpret its great men of the past. Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before.\n\nFour men shaped the end of British rule in India: Nehru, Gandhi, Mountbatten and Jinnah. We know a great deal about the first three, but Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, has mostly either been ignored or, in the case of Richard Attenborough's hugely successful film about Gandhi, portrayed as a cold megalomaniac, bent on the bloody partition of India. Akbar Ahmed's major study redresses the balance. \n\nDrawing on history, semiotics and cultural anthropology as well as more conventional biographical.