Pakistani historian, journalist, author, and professor (1926?2020)
Sharif al Mujahid
(1 July 1926 – 27 January 2020) was a Pakistani journalist, historian, author, and professor.
Education and career
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Al Mujahid was born on 1 July 1926 in
Madras
,
India
(modern day
Chennai
). After finishing his BA degree in 1949, he went on to complete a master's degree in Islamic History at
Madras University
in 1951. He completed additional MA degrees in journalism in 1952 from
Stanford University
, and in Islamic Studies from
McGill University
in 1959.
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Al Mujahid joined
Karachi University
as a lecturer in 1955 and later became a professor on 3 July 1972.
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He was a founding member of the journalism department (now the department of mass communications) at the same university where he mentored a lot of students in journalism including the noted journalist
Muhammad Ali Siddiqui
.
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In 1976, he established the
Quaid-i-Azam Academy
, where he was the founding director. He served as director at the Quaid-i-Azam Academy until 1989.
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As a journalist, before the
independence of Pakistan
in 1947, Sharif al Mujahid participated as an active journalist, starting in 1945, in favor of
Pakistan Movement
and frequently wrote newspaper articles expressing his views on the topic.
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In Pakistan, he contributed his newspaper columns to Dawn newspaper for about six decades.
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Mujahid won a
Fulbright-Hays
scholarship at
Stanford University
, was a Research Fellow at
Mcgill University
and a Fellow at the
British Council
.
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Awards and recognition
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Death and legacy
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Al Mujahid died of old age on 27 January 2020 at age 93 at his home in
North Nazimabad
, Karachi and was later buried ay
Karachi University
Graveyard. Among his survivors are his four daughters.
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His collected papers are held by the
Sindh Archives
.
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Books
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Al Mujahid wrote several books.
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- Quaid-i-Azam and His Times
- Quotes of the Quaid
- In Quest of Jinnah
- The Jinnah Anthology
- A Compendium of Muslim League Documents
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- Indian Secularism: A Case Study of the Muslim Minority
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- Ideological Foundations of Pakistan
- Ideological Orientation of Pakistan
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- Ideology of Pakistan
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