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  • Ibn Khaldūn's reception in colonial South Asia

  • Baqar Hassan Syed
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society / Volume 34 / Issue 4 / October 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 September 2024, pp. 729-743
    Print publication:
    October 2024
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  • Scholars commenting on the reception of the historian and theorist ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Ibn Khaldūn (1332–1406) in modern South Asia have held that it was orientalists and Westernised intellectuals rather than indigenous intellectuals who popularised him in the region. Contesting these impressions, I argue that local intellectuals displayed their agency in using the historian's work to respond to various crises of colonial modernity. They read, translated, and appropriated Ibn Khaldūn to seek inspiration for modern Muslim nationalism, as validation for sectarian convictions and the rhetoric of Islamic reform, and to resist colonial and Hindu revivalist narratives of despotic Muslim rule in India.