Abul Kalam Azad — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Maulana Azad (Abul Kalam Azad, 1888–1958); used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth in Mecca on 11 November 1888, his private formation in the four schools of fiqh, his journal Al-Hilal, his Ranchi internment, his Congress presidencies of 1923 and 1940–1946, his opposition to partition, his tenure as India's first Minister of Education (1947–1958), his books including Tarjuman-ul-Quran and Ghubar-e-Khatir, and his death at Delhi on 22 February 1958.