PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION INTRODUCTION CHAPTERS 1. THE BACKGROUND 2. SYED AHMAD KHAN 3. HALI 4. MOHSIN-UL-MULK 5. THE BEGINNINGS IN BENGAL The Ruin of Muslim Bengal—Haji Muhammad Mohsin—Nawab Abdul Latif (1828-1893)— Numerical Expansion of Islam—Syed Ameer Ali— Nawab Salim Ullah 6. VIQAR-UL-MULK 7. THE RELIGIOUS GROUPS Deoband—Brelvi Sect—Sufi Orders—Nadva-tuJ-Ulama of Lucknow 8. SHIBLI 9. ABUL KALAM AZAD 10. MAULANA MUHAMMAD ALI 11. IQBAL 12. THE AGA KHAN 13. EMERGENCE OF THE MUSLIM MAJORITY PROVINCES The Punjab—Muslim Anjuman-i Islamia—Anjuman-i Himayat-i Islam—Cultural Developments—Justice Shah Din and Mian M. Shafi—New Hindu Movements and Economic Exploitation of the Muslims—Mian Fizl-i Husain—Sikandar Hayat Khan—Malik Barkat Ali Bengal— Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhry—A.K. Fazl-uI-Haq—Sir Abdul Rahim—Khwajah Nazim-ud-Din—Husain Shaheed Suhrawardy Sind—Hasan Ali Effendi—Struggle for Separation of Sind North-West Frontier Province—Reforms for N.-W.F.P—Sir Abdul Qayum—Congress Government—Referendum 14. QUAID-I AZAM MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH I. The Beginning—II. Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity, A Successful Mission—III. Home Rule League—IV. An Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity, The Failure of a Mission—V. Wanderings in the Wilderness—The Struggle for Pakistan—Governor-General of Pakistan—Jinnah the Man and the Statesman 15. LIAQAT ALI KHAN APPENDICES I. CULTURAL BASIS OF HINDU-MUSLIM SEPARATISM II. QUAID-I AZAM'S OFFER OF A JOINT DEFENCE PACT WITH INDIA AND PRIME MINISTER NEHRU'S REACTION III. LIST OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE ALL-INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Sheikh Muhammad Ikram better known as S. M. Ikram, was a Pakistani historian, biographer, and litterateur. He was member of the Indian Civil Service which he joined in 1931. In 1947, when Pakistan emerged from British India, Ikram opted for Pakistan and served in the Civil Service of Pakistan. On July 1, 1966, he was appointed as Director, Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore, a position he occupied until his death in 1973, at the age of sixty-four.