TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engineer,Asghar Ali
TI  - A living faith: my quest for peace, harmony, and social change 
SN  - 9788125041979
U1  - 823.92008297 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Orient BlackSwan
KW  - Social reformers
KW  - India
KW  - Biography
KW  - Muslim scholars
N2  - 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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