Intellectual Modernism of Shibli Nu’mani (An Exposition of His Religious and Political Ideas)

DETAILS: 

• Publisher: KITAB BHAVAN
  
• Author: Mrs. Mehr Afroz Murad
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 170
  
• Cover: Hardcover
  
• Weight 340 gm
  
• Edition: 2009
  
• ISBN: 817151216X

ABOUT THE BOOK

n this book the learned authoress has studied Shibli Nu’mani at length in relation particularly to his religious and political writings, and has tried to bring to light, or rather to life, certain moribund aspects of Shibli’s manifold intellectual personality. In the process she has been able to present a vastly modified picture especially of Shibli’s religious thinking, and has generally shown that Shibli had a much more modern mind than he is usually credited with.

“The debt of the scholarly community to the author,” says Charles J. Adams in his Foreword to the book, “is due not only for the first full-length study in English of a compelling personality and for the care and thoroughness with which the work has been done, but also for the liveliness of the style in which the whole is presented. Mrs. Murad has achieved a compact presentation of her subject in language that is clear, forceful and readable, making her book a pleasure to read.”