In creatively engaging the practice of the Islāmic historiographical tradition, he implicitly invites all Muslims to resist Western epistemic pressures and reclaim past Muslim glory, offering a path to liberation through the preservation and revival of traditional, indigenous curricula. As a late nineteenth-century, Islāmic historiographer of the Nadwatul ‘Ulamā’ in British India, Maulānā ‘Abdul Ḥayy explicitly calls upon all Muslims to learn about the intellectual heritage of Indian ‘ulamā’. Moreover, the life-story and writings of Maulānā ‘Abdul Ḥayy promoted resistance to imperialist agendas, especially those focused on controlling the ways indigenous groups understood their own history and would carve out their futures through education pursuits. The life and work of a historian steeped in Islām’s fourteen-century, intellectual tradition, Maulānā Ḥakīm Sayyid ‘Abdul Ḥayy al-Hasanī, serves as a model for rethinking the history of Muslims in India during the British Colonial period.
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