Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958) was an Islamic scholar, freedom fighter, freethinker, journalist, and independent India's first education minister.
S. Irfan Habib is a widely published historian of science and modern political history. He was the Maulana Azad Chair at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. He is the author of To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades and editor of Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings.
