Asghar Ali Engineer: 8 books

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’,...

The book considers some of the stereotypes regarding Islamic and Quranic injunctions and re-examines them in the light of verses from the Quran and the Sharia. Some of these are Islamic views on non-muslim communities, tolerance, family planning, etc. For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar...

This book presents a new and representative outlook of Indian polity, society, culture, Islamic terrorism, human rights, women’s right vis-a-vis Muslim clergy, Islamic conversions in India, and communal riots. Author is quite liberal in giving expression to his view on issues related to Islam and Muslims.

This book is a compilation of articles, editorial, investigative reports, surveys, memoranda and other significant material on the Gujarat carnage. The final report of the Human Rights Commission (that took a direct interest for the first time, of its own accord, in communal violence) is included in...

Islam basically is religion of peace, compassion and justice.There are enough verses in the Quran to prove this. Violenceis allowed only for defence, never for aggression. Moreover,it is incidental, not ideological

This is a rejoinder to suppressed histories. The role of minorities in india`s struggle for freedom has been praise-worthy in every sense of the term. They played an immensely important role there. Unfortunately, however, that brillaint role does not occupy any meaningful space in our historical discourses.The...

Sufism is a very effective means of promoting love & peace . This Volume is collected papers red in one such seminar held in Mumbai some time ago . The papers show that sufis believe in universal love and their love transcends all religious, national,linguistic and ethnic boundaries as their very basic doctrine is sulh-i-kul (total peace, peace with all).

The present book offers the researches of some of these enterprisingscholars. All the major religions in south Asia , namely hinduism ,Islam ,Buddhism and Christianity have been covered here.