Hertha marks ayrton biography of mahatma

Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion

Postby Tees-Exe Line »

Thanks for all these comments, and sorry I'm replying a bit late. (I was running around all day yesterday with no time at my desk.)

A couple of things before I address the criticism above. First, I'd like to recognize Will Alston and Kirk Jing for a very high-quality submission from inexperienced writers. Though their packet was a bit dominated by pet subjects, the clues were universally interesting, relevant, and well-researched (mostly from reliable sources), and for the most part they targeted the right difficulty for the field. I personally really liked the Douglas MacArthur question that focused on the politics of the American occupation. Second, like I said above, I thought people's submissions in social history and historiography were on the whole excellent, and that is what gave me the confidence to reserve part of the Cane Ridge Revival distribution especially for that. (More on that below.)

I'm sorry that people were frustrated by the bonus difficulty at this tournament. Bentley's comment somewhere above is correct that I ended up doing more of making submitted bonus parts harder than easier, and play-testing generally turned up around two bonuses per packet that would have been at home in ACF

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Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam

AZAD, MAULANA ABUL KALAM (1888–1958), president of Indian National Congress (1923, 1940–1946), India's first minister of education (1947–1958). Mohiuddin Ahmad, known as Abul Kalam "Azad" (the free) was born in Makkah in 1888. His mother was an Arab who died in Calcutta (Kolkata) when his father, Khairuddin Dehlavi, returned to India after several years in Makkah. Azad was educated by his father, a Sufi, learning religious sciences as well as classical Arabic, Persian, and Urdu at home. Azad wrote mostly in Urdu, the language of his passion and to which he made a lasting contribution through his commentary of the Qurʾan. Azad was also interested in learning other systems of knowledge beyond his training in the traditional Islamic learning. He was open to Western knowledge and values that seemed to be in accord with Islamic ethical teachings. Intellectually, Azad saw himself following in the footsteps of such Indian scholars as Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), a reformer of Indian Islam who is mostly remembered for his opposition to a kind of Sufism that appeared to be closer to Hindu monistic philosophy than to Islamic orthodoxy. Another intellectual and reformer whom Azad lauds in his writings is Sayyid Ahmed Khan (d. 1898).

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