Khursheed Kamal Aziz - Wikipedia
Khursheed Kamal Aziz - Wikipedia
Khursheed Kamal Aziz - Wikipedia
Aziz
K. K. Aziz
Nationality Pakistani
He worked briefly, in the early 1970s, as an advisor to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and was
the chairman of the 'National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research' but
he later fell out with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and his regime and left that position.[3]
Some years later, he returned his "Sitara-i-Imtiaz" Award awarded by the President
of Pakistan in protest of his treatment by the Martial Law authorities after General
Zia-ul-Haq took over power in 1977 and was forced to leave the country. He lived
many years abroad as an exile and taught at many universities abroad.[1] He
began to collect his research material for his many famous books while he was
teaching in Germany.[3] His research material was enriched by the experiences he
had while living in many different countries abroad.[1]
He died in Lahore, Pakistan at the age of 81, on 15 July 2009.[1] K. K. Aziz had
returned from abroad to Lahore, Pakistan only in 2008, a year before his death.[3]
His wife, Zarina Aziz, said in an interview to a Pakistani newspaper, after his death,
that he had been somewhat sick for about last 5 years but had continued to work
for 10 hours daily to write and finish his books. He had written over 50 history
books in his lifetime and used to say to her that his books were his children and
would keep his name alive.[1] In 2014, per a major Pakistani newspaper columnist,
some young Pakistanis are starting to give K. K. Aziz credit for helping them have
a balanced view of Pakistan's history. Now, at least, they got a chance to look at
the history of Pakistan from a point of view other than the 'only slanted view laced
with extreme ideological narratives' in the text books they studied at school and
college. Pakistani people themselves and also the world at large, have the ability
to sort out the truth, on individual basis, after reading many and different points of
view on the history of Pakistan. Since the mid 1990s, some historians and
intellectuals in Pakistan have slowly and surely tried to develop a more rational
and balanced view of Pakistani history.[3] .
Literary works
Aziz had a profound love for words and writing. He authored 44 valuable books on
the modern history of the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. He had a unique
style of writing that stimulated readers' thought process. He wrote on many
significant issues related to Pakistan and also came up with volumes of
significant details on important dignitaries who helped in shaping the history of
the Indian subcontinent.
Bibliography
See also
Mubarak Ali
Ayesha Siddiqa
Sulaiman Nadvi
Mahmud Hussain
Ayesha Jalal
Tariq Rahman
References
3. Nadeem F. Paracha (27 April 2014). "K. K. Aziz: Murder he wrote" (https://www.dawn.com/n
ews/1101992) . Dawn. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
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