Education, Literature and Islam : Writings by Mohammad Mujeeb

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Speaking for myself. 2. My schooldays. 3. Right and wrong in education. 4. Textbooks: new ideals and responsibilities. 5. Education and traditional values. 6. Culture. 7. Conscience. 8. When the world is too much with us. 9. Secularism. 10. Sufism in India. 11. Indo-Iranian synthesis in literature. 12. The Perso-Arabic script. 13. Amir Khusrau. 14. Ghalib: the poetic tradition. 15. Ghalib as poet. 16. Iqbal. 17. Umrao Jan Ada. 18. What Shakespeare Means to me. 19. Glories of Indian art. 20. The Red Fort. 21. The Qutub complex as a social document. 22. The status of the individual conscience in Islam. 23. Freedom and obligation: the Islamic view. 24. Islamic influence on Indian Society. 25. The Indian Muslims after Independence. 26. Gandhi and the Muslim masses. 27. Guru Nanak through Muslim eyes. 28. The discovery of India. 29. Approach to the study of medieval Indian history. 30. The meaning of Indian history. 31. The middle ages (ad 900-1450). 32. The religious world-state (ad 200-900). 33. A century of revolutions (1750-1850). 34. Profiles of some great cultures. Index.

"Prof. Mujeeb was one of the most brilliant stars of the firmament of new ideas that the group led by Dr. Zakir Husain spread out over the Jamia Millia Islamia, which was both the birth-ground of a new educational philosophy and practice and a battle ground of new ideas necessary to lead the Indian Muslim into a future of intellectual and spiritual freedom, a happy balance of faith and rationalism and a constructive synthesis of core Islamic and Indian civilizational values. This book represents all the shades and hues of the astonishingly diverse intellectual and academic expressions and achievements that Prof. Mujeeb was known for." (jacket)