عناية المحدِّثين بالجامع الصَّحيح للبخاري في شبه القارة الهنديَّة

This study deals with a historical overview of the entry of Islam to the Indian subcontinent and the contribution of the companions, successor, and their followers in spreading the Prophetic Sunnah in it. Moreover, It contains a brief historical overview of the emergence of hadīth science، its weakness, renaissance, development, and flourishing, and a study of the attention of Muhaddithūn to the Sahih al-Bukhārī by writing its Shuruh, Taliqāt، Hawāshī, and Tarājim in the Indian subcontinent. It has been proven from the study of the history of hadīth science that after the entry of the Ghaznavids and the Ghurids to this region, the science of hadīth weakened due to the interest of the locals in rational sciences until Sultān Ala’ud-Dīn al-Khiljī (d. 716/1316) period. The scholars began to pay attention to the compilations of hadīth in general and Sahih al-Bukhārī in particular, and the first Sharh of Sahih al-Bukhārī appeared by Sheikh al-Hassan b. Muhammad al-Saghānī al-Lāhourī (d. 1252/650). It was revealed from a historical study of Sahih al-Bukhārī’s related studies in the Indian subcontinent that all were written in three stages. The first stage was the era of the renaissance of hadīth science and the emergence of Sahih al-Bukhari’s Shuruh and Hawāshī in the Arabic language. The second stage was the era of the development of hadīth sciences and the emergence of Sahih al-Bukhari’s Shuruh and Tarājim in the Arabic and Persian languages. Besides, the study proved that it was the era of translation and authorship in the Persian language, which was one of the most widespread languages، understanding, and delivered in the scientific community of the Indian subcontinent. As for the third stage, it is the flourishing of hadīth science and the emergence of a diversity of books about the Sahih al-Bukhārī in Arabic, Urdu, and Pashto. It was discovered from the study that the Urdu language took the place of Persian in the dissemination of legal sciences and the authorship of Sahih al-Bukhārī.

Studying the Local Historical Narratives of Lahore: Partition, Cross-Migration, Regenration, 1947-1961

This dissertation attempts to contribute to the burgeoning scholarship on Partition of India. The study examines the locality of Lahore that how partition had interrupted and rearranged the internal frames in the city of Lahore. The study addresses questions such as how do violence and absolute abhorrence to the non-Muslims had accompanied the partition process in the city of Lahore. Followed by dismal affairs would be another phenomenal feature of post partition Lahore. How are they fraught with the localrefugees milieu in terms of influential actors in the locality of Lahore. Moreover, that particular transition had altered the economics of the industrial and financial situations in Lahore. In that particular backdrop, the main argument study the evolution of the lower middle class. It is obviously about the mob psychology, the dispersed crowd of Lahore had manifested during and after partition in Lahore. The sense of ownership of the city even after the departure of the non-Muslims shows the level of their socio-political desperation, which consequently assisted them to go for the filling up of that social space in multidimensional way. Those downtrodden class of Muslims of Lahore had capitalized that transition in order to acquire social space in the locality of Lahore. That resultant changes had come up with some parallel manifestations. Such as the emergence of the middle class in the next immediate period in the locality of Lahore. Many small-scale traders had a leap chance to move into large-scale industrialist within short time. That leap along with the perpetuation of the small-scale industrial worker-body was the major hallmark of the post partition complexion of Lahore. The ideological services of that class dispensed by the fresh rise of the Urdu print capitalism. Thus, the main thrust of our study is about the space acquiring in the city of Lahore by the local-refugee milieu. The reshaping due to that social space acquiring was not a sudden outcome owing to the transition; partition of India had brought out. Rather the much-rationalized reason behind that ultimate transformation imbibed in the long drawn out background of the communal and financial positioning in the city of Lahore throughout its colonial period.