著者
山根 聡
出版者
京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科附属イスラーム地域研究センター
雑誌
イスラーム世界研究 (ISSN:18818323)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.7, pp.143-151, 2014-03

The project of Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University has been promoting the preservation of the intellectual heritage of Islamic culture and the compilation of a database of this heritage. In this regard, Kyoto University decided to house the huge collection of books on Islamic culture in South Asia collected by Dr. Mu'inuddin Aqeel in 2012, which contains almost 27, 000 items, including both rare books and magazines. This paper overviews the characteristics of the Aqeel Collection with a introduction to Dr. Aqeel who has had a deep attachment to the Japanese academic community. There are many private libraries in South Asia but most of them specialize in a particular subject such as Islamic studies, Urdu literature, art, and so on. The most distinguished characteristic of the Aqeel Collection is that since Dr. Aqeel has wide-ranging interests concerning Islamic culture in South Asia, his collection includes many books on different subjects such as tazkiras, books on religions, history, or literature. Because he tried to collect as many books on one particular subject as he could, his collection includes rare tazkiras of many Sufis of different cities of the Indo-Subcontinent and the regional history of many cities, even small towns of the sub-continent. Besides, Dr. Aqeel adopted his own method of classification for the books. For example, for books on history, Dr. Aqeel classified books according to regions and historical events, such as Pre-Mughal period, Mughal period, Sikh era, British era, Independent movement, and after the independence of India and Pakistan. He even put some literary magazines on a particular subject on the same shelf as the books on the same subject. This method of classification has provided scholars with easy to access all the literature on a particular subject. Thus, the study of these books must inevitably provide multidimensional perspectives about Islam in South Asia.
著者
浜口 恒夫
出版者
京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科附属イスラーム地域研究センター
雑誌
イスラーム世界研究 (ISSN:18818323)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.9, pp.127-135, 2016-03

'Nationalist Muslims' and 'Muslim nationalists' are cited here not as an example of inverse word order but as historical terms to denote two rival groups of South Asian Muslims belonging to different political parties. The former term refers to those Muslims who were associated with the Indian National Congress with an ideology of composite Indian nationalism and advocated the independence of a united India from British rule, while the latter one means those Muslims who were attached to the All-India Muslim League with an ideology of Muslim nationalism and struggled for the cause of a separate Muslim state, i. e. the division of British India into the two independent states of Pakistan and India. This paper, utilizing the related materials from the Aqeel Collection, tries to trace the political activities of two contending Muslim leaders, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad as one of the most prominent nationalist Muslims and Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the Quaid-i-Azam (great leader) of the Pakistan movement respectively, leading to the partition of British India and to appraise their contrasting legacies to nation building in each of the newly born states.
著者
東長 靖 山根 聡
出版者
京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科附属イスラーム地域研究センター
雑誌
イスラーム世界研究 (ISSN:18818323)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.9, pp.113-117, 2016-03

After it received funding from the university-wide fund (provision of a large collection) in 2012, the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, purchased Dr. Moinuddin Aqeel's Collection of Urdu Literature (hereunder, "Aqeel Collection"). Since then, the school has been continually working on registering the collection. It expects to have inputted almost all of the content onto OPAC by March, 2016. The collection represents a treasure trove for the field of South Asian Islam, which still has not made sufficient headway in Japan. The collection has been utilized in an inter-regional joint research promotion undertaking by NIHU [National Institutes for the Humanities] "South Asia and Islam" and the Grant-in-Aid Research project (Kakenhi) "General Research on the Publication and Transmission of Islamic Books in the South Asian Languages" (research representative: Tonaga Yasushi; Co-researchers: Kosugi Yasushi, Tanabe Akio, Matsumura Takamitsu, Yamane So, Inoue Aeka, and Imamatsu Yasushi). One outcome of this research is the opening of a comprehensive database on the collection http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ kias/aqeel_db/. In the process of the research, we invited the original owner of the collection, Dr. Moinuddin Aqeel (former Professor at the University of Karachi), in the framework of the Kyoto University Asian Studies Unit (KUASU) a couple of times, received suggestions from him, and conducted joint research in connection with its research project "Forming an Educational Research Base for the World Leading Contemporary Asian and Japanese Studies: Kyoto University Asian Studies Cluster and International Affiliated Graduate School Program."