M a yousuf ali biography books
M a yousuf ali biography books
M a biography of abdullah yusuf ali by m.
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Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Abstract
Searching for Solace consists of two parts, two appendixes, and a section
displaying documents and photos of Yusuf Ali and those with whom he had
contact.
The author devotes the first part to A.
Yusuf Ali's life and his service to
the British. He was born in in Surat, western India, into the Bohra mercantile
community, whose members trace their Muslim ancestry to the effons
of preachers sent by the FaJimid caliphs in Cairo.
Ali was sent to Bombay for
his education. While there, he attended the new school of the Anjuman-e-Islam
and, subsequently, a missionary school named after its founder, John Wilson.
He was barely eight or nine years old when he left home.
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Classes were taught
in both Urdu and English. When he was fifteen, Ali left Wilson's school and
entered its senior section, Wilson College, which was affiliated to the University
of Bombay. Sherif thinks that Ali's education in the Anjuman school
helped him resist the cultu