The Department of Cultural Studies &
Alam Khundmiri Foundation
Invite you all to a Public Lecture by
DR. SAFOORA RAZEQ HAQUE
Liberal Islam and Maulana Azad's Understanding of Universal Man
On January 9th, 2015 (FRIDAY) at 4 pm
In Room no. 4, Ground Floor, New Academic Block, EFLU
The ideas that Maulana Azad developed as a political thinker were bold and consciously transformative as an intellectual project. By weaving tradition with modernity he charted out for his community the path towards progress, unity and freedom. Azad's ingenuity lay in his attempt to use the Islamic tradition and the authority of the Holy Qur'an to formulate a political theory for Indian Muslims, with a view of constructing a modernist theory of resistance against the oppressive colonial regime. The struggle for freedom and the need for a nation state, to Azad, were associated with the complex issues of establishing justice, equality, fraternity, humanity and the long overdue progress which were all retarded by colonialism. Azad made an effort to locate these modern concepts associated with Western enlightenment within the threshold of Islamic tradition and religion and formulated his theory of resistance within an Islamic ideational context.
Dr. Safoora Razeq Haque has done her Ph.D from Calcutta University. She is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Aliah University, Kolkata. Her research focuses on Islam and an understanding of Muslim nationalism in India with a special emphasis on the religion and politics of Maulana Azad. She has been working on a book on new educational policy of Independent India and the contribution of Azad. She is also working on a project with MAKAIAS on Maulana Azad and the labour movement in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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