John Bagot Glubb
Hussain continued to pursue intellectual activities long after his retirement, remaining active well into his seventies. He was an admirer of Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb Pasha, and considered him to be one of the finest historians of Islam in the English language. He was also a fan of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, and (much to the horror of his religious family, tribe, and the people of his area) he used to follow and preach the religious views of these two scholars.