<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling . You can assist by editing it . (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling . You can assist by editing it . (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Azad was born on 11 November 1888 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia . His real name was Abul Kalaam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed who eventually became known as Maulana Azad . Azad's father was a scholar . He lived in Delhi with his maternal grandfather, as his father had died at a very young age . Maulana Azad, in his magnum opus book India Wins Freedom revealed his Afghan or Pashtun ancestry by stating that his ancestors had migrated to India from Herat, Afghanistan, in the days of Babar . During Sepoy Mutiny he left India and settled in Mecca . Maulana Muhammad Khairuddin, authored a dozen of books and had thousands of disciples, while his mother was the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Zaher Watri, himself a scholar from Medina whose reputation extended outside Arabia . In Mecca, where Maulana Azad was born, but returned to Calcutta with his family in 1890 . Azad began to master several languages, including Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Bengali, Arabic, and English . He was also trained in the Mazahibs of Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali fiqh, Shariat, mathematics, philosophy, world history and science by reputed tutors hired by his family . An avid and determined student, the precocious Azad was running a library, a reading room, a debating society before he was twelve, wanted to write on the life of Ghazali at twelve, was contributing learned articles to Makhzan (A literary magazine) at fourteen, was teaching a class of students, most of whom were twice his age, when he was merely fifteen and succeeded in completing the traditional course of study at the young age of sixteen, nine years ahead of his contemporaries, and brought out a magazine at the same age . In fact, in the field of journalism, he was publishing a poetical journal (Nairang - e-Aalam) and was already an editor of a weekly (Al - Misbah), in 1900, at the age of twelve and, in 1903, brought out a monthly journal, Lissan - us - Sidq, which soon gained popularity . At the age of thirteen, he was married to a young Muslim girl, Zulaikha Begum . Azad compiled many treatises interpreting the Qur'an, the Hadis, and the principles of Fiqh and Kalam . </P> <P> Azad developed political views considered radical for most Akbad Muslims of the time and became a full - fledged Indian nationalist . He fiercely criticised the British for racial discrimination and ignoring the needs of common people across India . He also criticised Muslim politicians for focusing on communal issues before the national interest and rejected the All India Muslim League's communal separatism . Azad developed curiosity and interest in the pan-Islamic doctrines of Jamal al - Din al - Afghani and visited Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Turkey . But his views changed considerably when he met revolutionary activists in Iraq and was influenced by their fervent anti-imperialism and nationalism . Against common Muslim opinion of the time, Azad opposed the partition of Bengal in 1905 and became increasingly active in revolutionary activities, to which he was introduced by the prominent Hindu revolutionaries Aurobindo Ghosh and Shyam Sundar Chakravarty . Azad initially evoked surprise from other revolutionaries, but Azad won their praise and confidence by working secretly to organise revolutionaries activities and meetings in Bengal, Bihar and Bombay (now called Mumbai). </P>

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