By TCN News,
New Delhi: Vice President of India, Mohd. Hamid Ansai on Wednesday released an autobiography of eminent scholar and columnist Asghar Ali Engineer entitled “A Living Faith – My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social Change” at a function here in the National Capital.
Mr Engineer is currently Chairperson, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, and Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai.
Vice President, Mohd. Hamid Ansari releasing “A Living Faith: My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social Change – An Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer”, in New Delhi on July 20, 2011.
Addressing on the occasion, the Vice President said that the services of Mr Asghar Ali Engineer in building an inclusive society is praiseworthy and his rise as a leader of social and religious reform is exemplary.
The book is an extensive autobiographical account of Mr Asghar Ali Engineer’s commitment to building an inclusive society and his interpretation of Islam as a modernist. Through the reminiscences of a life that has been lived for truth, the book depicts 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.