Ayesha Jalal

Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, Urdu: عائشہ جلال) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Quotes

• Like many of the north-Indian ashraf classes, Hali too considered Muslims to be the descendants of foreign conquerors... 'We were fire O Hind', he exclaimed, 'you've turned us into ash.'... Intended to invigorate his dejected co-religionists, not erect walls of antipathy against non-Muslims, these self-projections of a member of the north-Indian ashraf classes were susceptible to serious misinterpretation by those who had always questioned the loyalty of the Muslim to their adopted homeland.
  • Ayesha Jalal-.Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa6CAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |ISBN=978-1-134-59937-0 |page=65