Quaid e Azam: a charismatic leader
South Asian Studies
A Research Journal of South Asian Studies
Vol. 28, No. 1, January – June 2013, pp.261-263
BOOK REVIEW
The Charismatic Leader: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the
Creation of Pakistan
Sikandar Hayat
Oxford University Press, Karachi
Reviewed By Muhammad Iqbal Chawla
University of the Punjab, Lahore
Introduction
The figure and personality of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah is a fertile area for researchers, for he played a key role in the creation of Pakistan which altered the political map of South Asia and ushered in a new era of freedom struggle in the Muslim world particularly and the world at large. Professor Dr.
Sikandar Hayat, an eminent researcher and scholar has written extensively, in national and international research journals, on the Muslim struggle for
Independence and especially on the role of Jinnah in the making of Pakistan. The book under review is his recent discourse on the Quaid worth reading and fills the gap in the existing historical research material.
The author has applied Max Weber’s theory of the ‘Charismatic leader’ to
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s leadership of the struggle for the creation of Pakistan. He has tried to prove that Jinnah’s personality was comprised of all the main characteristics of a charismatic leader, particularly the ‘personality and situation factor’, which thereby enabled him to achieve his goal. The author answers several questions concerning the process through which Mr. Jinnah was able to get the popular support of an overwhelming majority of the Muslims of
India in a very short period of time for his cause.
The author, while dealing with the early and the middle phase of Jinnah’s political career, has tried to prove that Jinnah on his part used all available resources to achieve the goal of Hindu-Muslim unity, and in his early career he was very successful in this and was, thereafter, referred to by the honorific title,
‘Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity’. However, the Hindu
A Research Journal of South Asian Studies
Vol. 28, No. 1, January – June 2013, pp.261-263
BOOK REVIEW
The Charismatic Leader: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the
Creation of Pakistan
Sikandar Hayat
Oxford University Press, Karachi
Reviewed By Muhammad Iqbal Chawla
University of the Punjab, Lahore
Introduction
The figure and personality of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah is a fertile area for researchers, for he played a key role in the creation of Pakistan which altered the political map of South Asia and ushered in a new era of freedom struggle in the Muslim world particularly and the world at large. Professor Dr.
Sikandar Hayat, an eminent researcher and scholar has written extensively, in national and international research journals, on the Muslim struggle for
Independence and especially on the role of Jinnah in the making of Pakistan. The book under review is his recent discourse on the Quaid worth reading and fills the gap in the existing historical research material.
The author has applied Max Weber’s theory of the ‘Charismatic leader’ to
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s leadership of the struggle for the creation of Pakistan. He has tried to prove that Jinnah’s personality was comprised of all the main characteristics of a charismatic leader, particularly the ‘personality and situation factor’, which thereby enabled him to achieve his goal. The author answers several questions concerning the process through which Mr. Jinnah was able to get the popular support of an overwhelming majority of the Muslims of
India in a very short period of time for his cause.
The author, while dealing with the early and the middle phase of Jinnah’s political career, has tried to prove that Jinnah on his part used all available resources to achieve the goal of Hindu-Muslim unity, and in his early career he was very successful in this and was, thereafter, referred to by the honorific title,
‘Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity’. However, the Hindu