Ayesha Jalal, an Interpreter of jihad

Ayesha Jalal, an Interpreter of jihad

By Zia Haq, Hindustan Times

August 08, 2008

Jalal enters jihad from South Asia rather than from the Arab world. And how. The battle of Balakot, she says, was one prominent example. Syed Ahmad Shaheed of Rai Bareilly in UP fought the Sikhs, who — as allies of the British — had taken the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Jalal uses instances from undivided India to show how the concept of jihad changed.

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