The Disowned Genius tells the story of Inayatullah Khan Al-Mashriqi (1888-1963) whose book Tazkirah, when first published in 1924, was described as a "monumental work" by the Royal Society of Arts and who started the revolutionary Khaksar Tehreek "to revive Islamic virtues of discipline, service, sacrifice, simple living and unity". Syed Shabbir Hussain tells us of the close relations Inayatullah Khan's father had with Muslim thinkers of the time, including Syed Jamaluddin Al-Afghani and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. We meet young Inayatullah who was home schooled till the age of nine, who did his M.A. in mathematics from Punjab University in first class in a mere nine months and who, at Cambridge University, became the first student ever to do four Triposes in five years. We find out how the study of mathematics at Christ's College, Cambridge, helped Mashriqi to arrive at "the Great Truth of the Quran", as he himself put it. (Islamic Scholar/Political Theorist)

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