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The ‘Ulamā’ of British India and the Hijrat of 1920

1979/02/01 by M. Naeem Qureshi, M. N. Qureshi
Social Sciences · #Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence #Islamic Studies and History

paper · doi:10.1017/s0026749x00006466

Abstract

In the summer of 1920, when the Kh ilāfat movement (1918–24) was at its height, thousands of British Indian Muslims, under severe emotional stress, began to emigrate to the neighbouring Muslim country of Afghanistan. Believing that British India was no longer safe for Islam they had sought refuge in the hijrat or voluntary withdrawal as the only course left open to them.

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