Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani Siddiqui: A
MAULANA SHAH AHMED NOORANI SIDDIQUI: A POLITICAL STUDY ZAHID AHMED DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY QUAID-I-AZAM UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD SPRING 2015 MAULANA SHAH AHMED NOORANI SIDDIQUI: A POLITICAL STUDY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY BY ZAHID AHMED ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN SPRING 2015 To My Parents and Wife ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost I offer my sincerest gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Razia Sultana, who has supported me though out my thesis with her patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and knowledge whilst allowing me the room to work in my own way. Her guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. Her insightful comments, hard questions and constructive criticisms at different stages of my research were thought-provoking and they helped me focus my ideas. My sincere thanks to Maulana Younas Noshahi, Maulana Jameel Ahmed Naeemi, Late Maulana Ishaq Naziri, Zaid Sarwar, Hassan Nawaz and Dr.Arshad Bashir Mirza for helping me in material collection and giving free access to their personal collections. I am thankful to all my teachers particularly Prof. Dr. Sikandar Hayat, Prof. Dr. Aslam Syed, and Prof. Masood Akther, for their help and guidance. I especially thank Shah Muhmmad Anas Noorani, Shah Muhmmad Owais Noorani, Azhar Iqbal, Khalil Ahmed Rana, Noor Alam Shah, Shabbir Chishti, Mahboobur Rasool for helping me in identification of resources. I am grateful to the staff of National Archives of Pakistan, National Library of Pakistan, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, Institute of Policy Studies, Heavy Industry Taxila Education City Religious Education Library, Dr.
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