Understanding Islam is a translation of Ijtihad (Striving) written in Urdu by Nazir Ahmad (18361912) a leading Urdu writer, social and religious reformer.
The original work grew out of a response to the question, Why am I a Muslim? which had obsessed the author.
Nazir Ahmad critically examines questions that he felt had perhaps been inadequately understood by his co-religionists, and suggested areas where a change in their outlook might be conducive ...
The Repentance of Nussooh (1884) is a translation of Taubat-al-Nasuh (1874) by Nazir Ahmad, one of the stalwarts of the Aligarh Movement and a younger contemporary of Syed Ahmad Khan. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's The Family Instructor, the Urdu novel far surpasses its English model in bringing alive, through incident and dialogue, a crisis of values among members of an elite Muslim family in Delhi soon after the Great Rebellion of 1857. Though didactic in purpose, ...