Talk:Mahdavi
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Siddiqui, Sheikh Muhammad Ikram has written a series of three books on the Islamic movements and figures in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. These are in Urdu, but the books are highly scholarly and deserve translation in English, as the author had traveled wide to read original manuscripts and made comparisons of different editions in many cases. The books are:
1. Aab-e-Kauthar 2. Rood-e-Kauthar 3. Mauj-e-Kauthar
These were published by Idara-e-Siqafat-e-Islamia, Lahore, and I have the set of the 1967 edition, 12t reprint (1988).
Almost at the start of the second book, he talks of the Mahdvi tehreek (movwmwnt) and gives details of Syed Muhammad Jaunpuri and his disciples, his Khulafa and the struggles they had with the rulers.
I don't know what the policy of WP is as regards to information from works in languages other than English, but this set is a mine of information.
Although I guess I should be posing this question to Zora, unquestioningly (or self-appointed) the editor-in-chief of anything to do with islam. :)
I hope she doesn't mind this little dig. :) peacedove 14:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
