S. M. Zakir Hussain

S. M. Zakir Hussain, born in a small village in Bangladesh in 1971, is, though young, one of the most influential writers on progressive spirituality in his country with a wide readership in Bangladesh and India. The youngest son of a late Sufi master, he inherited the motivation for writing and thinking from his family tradition, and has been writing since he was only six. He has been writing professionally for the last fourteen years and has published more than 300 books, many of which are best-sellers in his country. He has widely written on English language, management, spirituality, literature, elementary mathematics, philosophy, logic, theology, sociology, linguistics, family psychology, epistemology, creativity, and education. He has an M. Phil. degree from the Dhaka University. He obtained his MBA from the Institute of Business Administration of the Dhaka University in 1996. He has another Masters degree in Applied Linguistics. Besides writing, his professional experience includes management consultancy, teaching, editing, and systems analysis. He is the developer of the first successful English-Bangla AutoTranslator (translation software) and is working with many new ideas. At present, he is Director of ABCL (Ahsania Books for Creative Learning) and AILA (Ahsania Institutue for Language Automation) sponsored by Dhaka Ahsania Mission.