Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Madrasa at Deoband: a model for religious education in modern India -- Two fatwas on Hajj in British India -- The past in the present: instruction, pleasure, and blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap biitii -- Reading and writing about Muslim women in British India -- Nationalist Muslims in British India: the case of Hakim Ajmal Khan -- Hakim Ajmal Khan: rais of Delhi and Muslim 'leader' -- Nationalism, modernity, and Muslim identity in India before 1947 -- Too little and too much: reflections on Muslims in the history of India -- The case of Pakistan -- Islamic arguments in contemporary Pakistan -- 'Traditionalist' Islamic activism: Deoband, Tablighis, and Talibs -- Reflections on Iqbal's mosque -- The pilgrimage remembered: south Asian accounts of the hajj -- What happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik -- Narrating lives: a nationalist Muslim intellectual.