Zafarul-Islam Khan (born 12 March 1948) is an Indian scholar. He studied in Indian madrasas, Al\u2011Azhar and Cairo universities in Egypt and the UK, where he obtained his PhD from Manchester University in Isl\u0101mic Studies in 1987. He\u00a0worked as a translator-editor with the Libyan Foreign Ministry during 1973-1979. Later, he served as a senior research fellow at The Muslim Institute, London, during 1979-1992. He is the director of the Institute of Isl\u0101mic & Arab Studies, New Delhi. He was the editor of Muslim & Arab Perspectives and Majallah al-Tar\u012bkh Al-Isl\u0101m\u012b\/Journal of Isl\u0101mic History. He is the author and translator of over 50 books in Arabic, English, and Urdu. He has contributed eight articles to the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Isl\u0101m (Leiden) on Indo-Muslim subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This collection of documents, being published separately in Urdu and English, covers the work of the first 50 years of the history of the Indian Muslim common platform, the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat whose triumphs, trials and travails are the same as that of the Indian Muslim community, the largest Muslim concentration in the world after Indonesia. Each volume in this collection includes the records that could be found in English or Urdu. It shows that not much changed for the community over these years. Yet this collection has a lot for us in terms of lessons, hope and apprehension for the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[20,56,40,182,9,174],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharosmedia.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}