Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad pronunciation was an Indian scholar, Islamic theologian, independence activist, and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He rose to prominence through his work as a journalist, publishing works critical of the British Raj and espousing the causes of Indian nationalism. Azad was one of the main organizers of the Dharasana Satyagraha in 1931. He served as Congress president from 1940 to 1945, during which the Quit India rebellion was launched.
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Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad pronunciation was an Indian scholar, Islamic theologian, independence activist, and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; the word Maulana is an honorific meaning ‘Our Master’ and he had adopted Azad as his pen name. His contribution to establishing the education foundation in India is recognised by celebrating his birthday as National Education Day across India. He rose to prominence through his work as a journalist, publishing works critical of the British Raj and espousing the causes of Indian nationalism. Azad was one of the main organizers of the Dharasana Satyagraha in 1931. He served as Congress president from 1940 to 1945, during which the Quit India rebellion was launched. The main gate to the main campus of the university is named after him. He was married to Zulaikha Begum, a young Muslim Muslim girl, who he married to at the age of 13. He died of cancer in 1946, aged 80, and was buried in a private ceremony in Calcutta. He had a son, who died in 2007, and two daughters, both of whom are now in their thirties. He also had a daughter, who is now in her fifties, and has a son and daughter-in-law, who are both in their seventies. His great-great-grandson is Indian politician and former Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
His grandson is former Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who served as President of India between 1998 and 2002. He has a daughter and a son who is in his seventies, who was a member of the House of Representatives from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He wrote a book on Hindu-Muslim unity, and published a number of books on Islamic theology and philosophy. His son is also a well-known author, and his grandson is the author of a book about the life of Al-Ghazali, the founder of Makhzan, and also a professor at the University of Madhya Pradesh. The son and grandson have two children, who were born in India and Pakistan respectively. The father was a Bengali Muslim scholar of Afghan ancestry, who lived in Delhi with his maternal grandfather, as his father had died at a very young age. His mother was Sheikha Alia bint Mohammad, the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad bin Zaher AlWatri, himself a reputed scholar from Medina who had a reputation that extended even outside of Arabia. His father Muhammad Kh airudin bin Ahmed Al Hussaini wrote twelve books, had thousands of disciples, and claimed noble ancestry. He left India and settled in Mecca in 1857, and went on to become a prominent Muslim scholar in India. His daughter was born in 1890, and she is now the wife of Indian politician Ravi Agrawal.
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