标题：Marc Gaborieau, Le Mahdi incompris. Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi (1786-1831) et le millénarisme en Inde (The Misunderstood Mahdi, Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi, (1786-1831) and Millenarianism in India)
期刊名称：South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
印刷版ISSN：1960-6060
出版年度：2012
卷号：6
出版社：Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
摘要：The life of Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi (1786-1931) was short, since he died in his jihadist attempt against the Sikhs at the age of forty-five. However, this Mahdi left behind him a puzzle to which Marc Gaborieau dedicated his energy for more than four decades before finally solving it. The work that Gaborieau, a director of studies at the EHESS, devoted to this illustrious figure in Indian history at the dawn of the colonial period is proof that painstaking scholarship always pays off in the end, as long as it is tackled with patience. The book’s first, but by no means only quality, is that it enables us to follow the progress of this long process of both historical and ethnographical research, which advanced not only through the comparison of contradictory sources but also scientific intuition. It necessitated the invention of a specific ‘narrative form’, the only one capable of translating the complexity of the plot that Gaborieau has managed to unravel.
