A magnificent biography We should be grateful to Stanley Wolpert for a book that combines meticulous research and scholarship with a lively and interesting style. He is one of the rare species: a scholar who can and will - write well.Norman D. Palmer, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

The first scholarly biography of one of the most important political figures of the modern world. Beautifully written, insightful, and dispassionate, it brings to life this complex, brilliant, and ambitious leader who did more than anyone else to bring to realization the seemingly chimerical dream of the founding a Muslim majority state in the Indian subcontinent. All readers interested in the contemporary history can profit greatly from reading this book.Nikki Keddie, Past President, Middle East studies Association of North America