Mohammad Mujeeb

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| birth_date = 1902

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| death_date = 1985 (aged 83)

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| occupation = Writer
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Scholar

| yearsactive = 1926–1985

| known for = Jamia Millia Islamia

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| awards = Padma Bhushan

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Mohammad Mujeeb (1902–1985) was an Indian writer of English and Urdu literature, educationist, scholar and the vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.{{cite book|author=Sean Oliver-Dee|title=Muslim Minorities and Citizenship: Authority, Islamic Communities and Shari'a Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwjFCjLLYsQC&pg=PA124|date=15 September 2012|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84885-388-1|pages=124–}}{{cite book|author=Yasmin Khan|title=The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan|url=https://archive.org/details/greatpartitionma00khan|url-access=registration|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-12078-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/greatpartitionma00khan/page/21 21]–}}

Early life and education

Mujeeb was born in 1902{{cite book|author=Shan Muhammad|title=Education and Politics: From Sir Syed to the Present Day : the Aligarh School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7BCcgC0kvsC&pg=PA88|year=2002|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-275-2|pages=88–}} to Mohammad Naseem, a wealthy barrister from Lucknow.

Mujeeb studied history at Oxford University. He was a close friend and associate of Zakir Hussain, the third president of India, and Abid Husain.{{cite web | url=http://urdufigures.blogspot.ae/2010/12/bapus-effort-to-get-allowance-for-jmi.html | title=Bapu's effort to get allowance for Prof Mujeeb | publisher=Urdu Figures | date=5 December 2010 | access-date=14 July 2016}} Later, he did advanced training in printing in Germany before returning to India to join Jamia Millia Islamia in 1926 as a faculty member, along with Zakir Hussain and Abid Hussain.{{cite web | url=http://jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/profile/history/Past_Vice_Chancellors_Profile-16/Prof_Mohammad_Mujeeb-2156 | title=Prof Mohammad Mujeeb | publisher=Jamia Millia Islamia | date=2016 | access-date=14 July 2016}}

Career

He was a scholar of History and was involved in the cultural and educational milieu of post-independent India.

Literary works

=English=

A Glimpse of New China {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=A Glimpse of New China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3XoAAAAIAAJ|date=1952|publisher=Maktaba Jamia}}
Ordeal 1857: A Historical Play {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Ordeal 1857: A Historical Play|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr5HAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Asia Publishing House}}
World history, our heritage {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=World history, our heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3VkiAAAAMAAJ|year=1961|publisher=Asia Pub. House}}
Education and Traditional values {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Education and Traditional Values|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84kkJgAQ0ekC|year=1965|publisher=Meenakshi Prakashan}}
Social reform among Indian Muslims {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Social Reform Among Indian Muslims|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1blIAAAAYAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Delhi School of Social Work, University of Delhi}}
Akbar {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Akbar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNMURAAACAAJ|year=1969|publisher=National Council of Educational Research and Training|isbn=978-0-88253-350-6}}
Ghalib {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Ghalib|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcvxUKpliocC|year=1969|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-708-8}}
Dr Zakir Hussain: a biography {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Dr. Zakir Husain: a biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hz86AQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=National Book Trust, India; [chief stockists in India: India Book House, Bombay}}
Islamic Influence on Indian Society {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Islamic Influence on Indian Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8MKAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Meenakshi Prakashan}}
The Indian Muslims {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=The Indian Muslims|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PYQuAAAACAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal|isbn=978-81-215-0027-2}}
Education, Literature and Islam {{cite book|author1=Mohammad Mujeeb|author2=Akhtarul Wasey|author3=Farḥat Iḥsās (Z̲ākir Ḥusain Insṭīṭiyūṭ āf Islāmik Isṭaḍīz)|title=Education, literature, and Islam: writings by Mohammad Mujeeb|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glYOAQAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2008|publisher=Shipra Publications|isbn=978-81-7541-395-5}}
Three Plays {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Three Plays by M. Mujeeb|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3FpjwEACAAJ|year=2015}}

=Urdu=

Dunya Ki Kahani {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Dunyā kī kahānī|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tiw_AAAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Maktabah-i Jāmiʻa}}
Azma’ish {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Āzmāʼish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6dzAAAAIAAJ|year=1965}}
Gazaliyat-e-Ghalib {{cite book|author1=Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib|author2=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Gazaliat E Galib: Galib's Selected Gazals in Roman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypQzAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Muslim Progressive Group; distributors: Galib Academy}}
Tarikh Falsafa-e-Siyasiyat {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Tārīḵẖ-i falsafah-yi siyāsiyāt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EsUtAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Naishnal Buk Ṭrasṭ}}
Nigarishat {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Nigārishāt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-S3AAAAIAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Maktabah-yi Jāmiʻah}}
Rusi Adab {{cite book|author=Mohammad Mujeeb|title=Rūsī adab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zkqenQEACAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Maktabah-yi Jāmiʻah}}

Awards

Padma Bhushan (1965) for his contributions to literature and education.{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}

Death and legacy

Mujeeb died in 1985, at the age of 83.{{cite web | url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50013042/ | title=Mujeeb, M. (Mohammad) 1902-1985 | publisher=WorldCat | date=2016 | access-date=14 July 2016}} Jamia Millia Islamia has instituted an annual oration, Professor Mohammad Mujeeb Memorial Lecture, in Mujeeb's honour.{{cite web | url=http://jmi.ac.in/bulletinboard/press-releases/archives/Professor_Mohammad_Mujeeb_Memorial_Lecture2015_on_Reconstruction_of_Islamic_Thought_in_the_Perspective_of_the_Seerah_of_the_Holy_Prophet_SAWat_Jamia-2986 | title=Professor Mohammad Mujeeb Memorial Lecture | publisher=Jamia Millia Islamia | date=2016 | access-date=14 July 2016}}

References

External links

{{cite web | url=http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=4292617960 | title=Profile on Toronto Public Library | publisher=Toronto Public Library | date=2016 | access-date=14 July 2016}}

Category:1902 births

Category:1985 deaths

Category:20th-century Indian writers

Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists

Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford

Category:English-language writers from India

Category:Historians of South Asia

Category:Indian Marxist historians

Category:20th-century Indian historians

Category:20th-century Indian Muslims

Category:Scholars from Lucknow

Category:Urdu-language writers from India