Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India c5.s3.30

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16 Anwar Shaikh, *Islam, The Arab National Movement*, 1995. It may be pertinent to mention here that Anwar Shaikh (born 1928) is living in Britain since 1956 under a *fatwa* of death (April 1994) because he has candidly written much that is unpalatable to Muslims. He is safe because he is settled in England and also because the assassins feel that killing him would draw attention to his ideas and writings more pointedly. However, a campaign against him is on, For example, Arshad Ali Khan in *Daily Jang*, London, April 30, 1995, calls on Muslim scholars of *all sects of Islam* to rebut Anwar Shaikh's views to *save Islam*.