A living faith : my quest for peace, harmony, and social change / an autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer with a foreword by Mushirul Hasan.
By: Engineer, Asghar Ali [author.].
Publisher: New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2011Description: xi, 345p.ISBN: 9788125041979.Subject(s): Social reformers -- India -- Biography | Muslim scholars -- India -- BiographyDDC classification: 823.92008297 Summary: For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar Ali Engineer has been a tireless soldier to the cause of national integration and communal harmony. Well-known today as a reformist, an activist and Islamic scholar, Asghar Ali Engineer received the Right Livelihood, or the Alternative Nobel , award in 2004 . . . for promoting over many years in South Asia the values of religious and communal co-existence, tolerance and mutual understanding . Written with the simplicity that perhaps describes the man himself, is an extensive autobiographical account of Asghar Ali Engineer s commitment to building an inclusive society and his inter-pretation of Islam as a modernist. It chronicles the personal, social and political events that shaped his life and views, his struggle against the orthodox Bohra priesthood and his rise as a leader of social and religious reform. It also documents his interactions with religious and political leaders of various hues across the world in the attempt to create a society that embraces all faiths. Through the reminiscences of a life that has been lived for truth, depicts a journey from violence to peace, from prejudice to acceptance, from politics of power and religion to the power of humanity one that continues unheeded, against all odds.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar Ali Engineer has been a tireless soldier to the cause of national integration and communal harmony. Well-known today as a reformist, an activist and Islamic scholar, Asghar Ali Engineer received the Right Livelihood, or the Alternative Nobel , award in 2004 . . . for promoting over many years in South Asia the values of religious and communal co-existence, tolerance and mutual understanding .
Written with the simplicity that perhaps describes the man himself, is an extensive autobiographical account of Asghar Ali Engineer s commitment to building an inclusive society and his inter-pretation of Islam as a modernist. It chronicles the personal, social and political events that shaped his life and views, his struggle against the orthodox Bohra priesthood and his rise as a leader of social and religious reform. It also documents his interactions with religious and political leaders of various hues across the world in the attempt to create a society that embraces all faiths.
Through the reminiscences of a life that has been lived for truth, depicts a journey from violence to peace, from prejudice to acceptance, from politics of power and religion to the power of humanity one that continues unheeded, against all odds.
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