Asghar ali engineer autobiography example
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Asghar Ali Engineer: Faith and Reason
By Lyla Bavadam
The autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer fryst vatten a perceptive commentary on society written with unassuming scholarliness.
WHEN Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari released Asghar Ali Engineer's autobiography, A Living Faith, he described the author as a modern-day Spinoza. Comparisons of the two thinkers march side by side. Both are radical and free thinkers, grounded in moral philosophy and steeped in democratic political thought. Like the 17th century Dutch philosopher, Engineer has offered logisk critiques of formalised religion.
Asked about his work, Engineer said, “People have asked me why I wrote this autobiography. My only answer fryst vatten that inom felt like sharing my experiences, and I wanted to reach out to people who matter and who are concerned. inom have three aims in life – peace and communal harmony, social reform, and gender justice.
“Sixty-three years after Independence we are still lagging far behind in a
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Islamic scholar launches autobiography
Sep 06, AM IST
In the 71 years of his life, Islamic scholar Asghar Ali Engineer has spearheaded a reformist movement in his Dawoodi Bohra community, held awareness workshops on communal harmony, investigated various instances of communal violence in India and also received the Right Livelihood international award for this work.
In the 71 years of his life, Islamic scholar Asghar Ali Engineer has spearheaded a reformist movement in his Dawoodi Bohra community, held awareness workshops on communal harmony, investigated various instances of communal violence in India and also received the Right Livelihood international award for this work.
However, as he launched his autobiography, A Living Faith, on Monday, he rued the fact that his dreams of seeing communal peace and gender equality in the country are still far from being realised.
"It pains me to see that 64 years after independence, something as basic as women's equality is s
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An Engineer and a Reformist: The Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer
Review by Zarin Ahmad
A Living Faith: My Quest for Peace Harmony and Social Change, New Delhi, Orient BlackSwan,
Most people in India are familiar with the name Asghar Ali Engineer – a reformist, writer and activist based in Mumbai. He is well known in South Asia and beyond for his work on or rather against communal violence in India and his revolutionary activism against the Dawoodi Bohra (a Shia sect) clergy. Engineer has authored more than fifty books and written innumerable articles in books, journals and newspapers and been at the forefront of civil society movements.
However not many of us are aware of the fact that Asghar Ali is an engineer by training. He graduated in civil engineering from Vikram University, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh and has worked with the Bombay Municipal Corporation for nearly twenty years. Asghar Ali remained active and interested in various social issues while working a