Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains, 2nd Edition

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The progeny of a Muslim tribe steeped in a tradition of blood revenge, Badshah Khan (Bacha Khan) raised history’s first nonviolent army and joined Mahatma Gandhi in civil disobedience to British rule in India. His story of hard-won victory offers inspiration for nonviolent solutions to today’s world struggles.

Abdul Ghaffar Khan didn’t have to struggle. Having been born into wealth and privilege, he could have cooperated with the British colonialists and lived the good life. But the violence endemic to his Pathan society, in which honor demanded that no fallacious go unavenged, drove him to are seeking for an alternative that could express the true spirit of Islam. Ghaffar Khan found this path in Gandhi’s movement of nonviolence, and in probably the most remarkable social transformations in history, he turned a people known for their fierceness into the largest army of nonviolent soldiers the world has every seen. The Khudai Khitmatgar (servants of God, or Red Shirts, as the British referred to as them) united in the reason for nonviolent revolution, fighting the British with passive resistance and noncooperation. Despite the fact that the price they paid under savage British suppression was once enormous, they never buckled. They won the honor of all India, and Ghaffar Khan became referred to as the Frontier Gandhi. Ghaffar Khan also paid an enormous personal price, in the end spending over half of his life in prison, first under the British and then under the Pakistanis, who squelched his call for a free Pathan homeland. Nonviolent Soldier of Islam a biography by the great spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran, keeps Ghaffar Khan’s spirit alive, a beacon for all who imagine in freedom, dignity, and peace. –Brian Bruya

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