Explanation:

• Option (b) is correct:
• The militantly nationalist Ahrar movement was founded under the leadership of Maulana Mohammed Ali, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Hasan Imam, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, and Mazhar-ul-Haq.
• These young men disliked the loyalist politics of the Aligarh school and the big nawabs and zamindars. Moved by modern ideas of self-government, they advocated active participation in the militant nationalist movement. Similar nationalist sentiments were arising among a section of the traditional Muslim scholars led by the Deoband School.
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a prominent scholar of this school. Maulana Mohammed Ali and Azad preached a message of courage and fearlessness and said that there was no -conflict between Islam and nationalism.