{"product_id":"a-living-faith-my-quest-for-peace-harmony-and-social-change-an-autobiography-of-asghar-ali-engineer-9788125045724","title":"A Living Faith: My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social Change - An Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dr Asghar Ali Engineer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor most of the seventy-one years of his life, \u003cstrong\u003eAsghar Ali Engineer\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a tireless soldier to the cause of national integration and communal harmony. Well-known today as a reformist, an activist and Islamic scholar, Asghar Ali Engineer received the Right Livelihood, or the ‘Alternative Nobel’, award in 2004 ‘. . . for promoting over many years in South Asia the values of religious and communal co-existence, tolerance and mutual understanding’. [Rightlivelihood.org] \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten with the simplicity that perhaps describes the man himself, is an extensive autobiographical account of Asghar Ali Engineer’s commitment to building an inclusive society and his inter-pretation of Islam as a modernist. It chronicles the personal, social and political events that shaped his life and views, his struggle against the orthodox Bohra priesthood and his rise as a leader of social and religious reform. It also documents his interactions with religious and political leaders of various hues across the world in the attempt to create a society that embraces all faiths.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the reminiscences of a life that has been lived for truth, depicts a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616489955479,"sku":"9788125045724","price":753.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788125045724.webp?v=1769294931","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-living-faith-my-quest-for-peace-harmony-and-social-change-an-autobiography-of-asghar-ali-engineer-9788125045724","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}