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Artistically produced and beautifully designed Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
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About the Author
Liaquat H. Merchant is a lawyer by profession who qualified in Bombay (India) and has been practising law since 1964. He is a barrister from Gray's Inn and has the distinction of being one of Pakistan's reputed civil lawyers.
Liaquat Merchant has been responsible for various publications on Jinnah including
Jinnah a Judicial Verdict, The Jinnah Anthology, M.A. Jinnah CD ROM Project and
Quotes from the Quaid. In recognition of the services rendered by Liaquat Merchant in the field of education and health and propagation of the ideals, principles and vision of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah by his various publications and for establishing and managing various Jinnah related institutions involving public services, the President of Pakistan conferred Sitara-i-Imtiaz on him in the year 2008.
BProfessor Sharif Al Mujahid, Distinguished National Professor, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan, is a renowned scholar of the Pakistan Movement and the founder of Pakistan, M.A. Jinnah. He was educated at Madras, Stanford, McGill and Syracuse universities. He was a Fulbright-Hays scholar at Stanford (1951-52), Research Fellow at McGill (1952-54), an Asia Foundation Grantee at Syracuse (1967-70), an American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) Lecture Series awardee (1978) at several universities in the US and Canada. He worked in various editorial positions in newspapers and feature syndicates in India, Pakistan, Canada, and the US. Professor Mujahid's publications include six major works, ten edited works, co-authored works, and twenty-two works (original/translated) in Urdu, Arabic, French, Portuguese and other languages. One of his works,
Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah: Studies in Interpretation (1981; two editions. In Pakistan and two 'pirated' reprints in India), was the only work among all those on Pakistan's founder published since 1940 to qualify for the President's Award on Best Books on Quaid-i-Azam. He has recently co-edited Unesco's
History of Humanity, vol. VI, and edited
In Quest of Jinnah (2007), the only oral history on Pakistan's founding father. His other works include
Ideology of Pakistan (2001);
Ideological Foundations of Pakistan (1999);
Muslim League Documents, Vol. I: 1900-1908 (1990);
Quaid-i-Azam and His Times: A Compendium, Vol. I: 1876-1937 (1990); and
Indian Secularism: A Case Study of Muslim Minority (1970).
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