Political letters of Shāh Walīullāh Dehlavī translated by Rohit Sahasrabudhe - Book Review

In the 1750s, as Mughal power crumbled and Maratha armies pushed deeper into Hindustan, a Delhi theologian named Shāh Walīullāh sat down to write letters — not to fight the coming storm, but to direct it. In this episode, we open a newly translated collection of his political correspondence, Political Letters of Shāh Walīullāh Dehlavī: "Most Systematic Theory of Jihād," translated by Rohit Sahasrabudhe, and ask what forty-two letters written to nobles, regional rulers, and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shāh Abdālī can tell us about the ideological currents beneath the collapse of Mughal India — and why historians still trace a line from these letters to Islamic revivalist and jihādī movements two and a half centuries later. We compare Walīullāh's instrument, the pen and the fatwā, to Aurangzeb's, the army and the treasury, and ask whether two very different eighteenth-century Muslim figures were, in fact, working toward the same end. And we look at why a figure invoked by everyone from Deobandi seminarians to modernist reformers like Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad remains, for most readers, almost entirely unknown.

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