Tahira syed biography of william

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Acknowledgements

az pa-e dīdan-e ruḳhat hamchū ṣabā futādah-am
ḳhānah bah ḳhānah dar bah dar kūchah bah kūchah kū bah kū
In search of your countenance, I have scoured through like the morning breeze
From house to house, from door to door, from street to street, from alley to alley
Qurrat ul-ʿAin T̤āhirah

This book springs from the first meeting I had with Qurratulain Hyder in September 2003¹ at her home in Noida, the satellite city of Delhi. She was generous with her time then and in the following year, despite her poor health. Even though I long had admired her writing, I was even more awed by her in person, especially her ability to encompass so many interconnected generations and intertwined geographies within a few hours of conversation. She was witty, quick, concise, and hospitable. I do not remember her saying anything without locating it within broader relations, families, and dynamic international networks. Three women facilitated my access to Hyder, all of whom I consider my mentors: Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, Shohini Ghosh, and Gail Minault. This book is a tribute to Hyder, along with the three other women mentioned here, and their shared passions for reading and women’s empowerment.

I am grateful for my formal and

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A Philosopher's Rejection of Islam

Irfan Ahmad Khawaja (Pakistan)

I was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1969 to Sunni Muslim parents who had come to the United States from Lahore, Pakistan, a few years earlier. My parents initially came to the United States intending merely to get their medical training here and go back, but circumstances conspired to keep them here, despite a few half-hearted attempts at return. They were (and are) certainly devout believers in Islam, but had had little religious education apart from the obligatory Islamiat required of students in Pakistan at the time. My mother is the more religious of the two, keeping most of the prayers and most of the fasts; she eventually performed umra (the lesser pilgrimage) in Mecca in 1996. My father is less overtly religious than my mother, and even toyed for a while with agnosticism, but is ultimately as devoted to Islam as she is. They were both great aficionados of the standard Islamic (or perhaps "Islamicate") prohibitions-against alcohol, pork, pre-marital sex, mingling of the sexes, intermarriage-and I'd go so far as to say that Islam's prohibitions constituted the core of its meaning for them.

I received my religious education from both my mother and my maternal grandmother. My grandmother pl

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Nazir Ahmed, Power Ahmed

British statesman (born 1957)

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