Asghar Ali Engineer
Asghar Ali Engineer was born on March 10, 1939. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Asghar Ali Engineer
Asghar Ali Engineer (10 March 1939 – 14 May 2013) was an academic, Indian reformist writer and social activist. Internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, he led the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement. The focus of his work was on communalism and communal and ethnic violence in India and South Asia. He was a votary of peace and non-violence and lectured all over world on communal harmony. Engineer also served as head of the Indian Institute of Islamic Studies Mumbai, and the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), both of which he founded in 1980 and 1993…