<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 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>
who is the author of ' india wins freedom '
who is the author of ' india wins freedom '
Maulana Azad
Maulana Azad