"In the important work, Separatism Among Indian Muslims, Francis Robinson ascribes Maulana Abdul Bari’s protestations on cows, etc., to an altogether less estimable reason. There had been talk, the book recounts, of a Shaikh-ul-Islam, the leader or head of Islam for all of India. Maulana Abdul Bari coveted this post, and it was to bag it that he offered Gandhiji a bargain.... The boost which the Khilafat agitation gave to the ulema, their increasingly aggressive role, the continuing conversions by force, fraud and allurement gave an urgency to the Hindu Sangathan movement. ‘Abdul Bari, the erstwhile apostle of Hindu-Muslim unity, came to the fore again,’ writes Robinson. ‘Now he spoke the language of the zealot. He urged Muslims to sacrifice cows without regard for Hindu feelings...’"
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Separatism Among Indian Muslims, Francis Robinson quoted in Arun Shourie - The World of Fatwas Or The Sharia in Action (2012, Harper Collins)
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Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali
Maulana Abdul Bari 'Firangi Mahali (Urdu: مولانا عبد الباری فرنگی محلی), (b. 1878 – d.1926) was a Firangi Mahal scholar.
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