Author Description

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 involvingpublic services, the President of Pakistan conferred Sitara-i-Imtiaz on him in the year 2008. Professor 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 atStanford (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 featuresyndicates 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 inInterpretation (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, andedited 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). Product Description This volume is a panoramic view of the complex figure of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. It aims to re-emphasize Jinnah's vision and principals as they related to a variety of things including democracy, justice, equality, integrity, honesty, supremacy of the rule of law, and therights of women and minorities. Featuring a collection of previously published and new articles by well-known academics, historians and analysts, as well as various speeches delivered by Jinnah between 1911 and 1947, it creates a documentary history of the Quaid's life, work and achievements.