Khalifa Abdul Hakim

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Khalifa Abdul Hakim ( Urdu خلیفہ عبدالحکیم; born 1896 in Lahore , British India ; died 1959 in Lahore, Pakistan ) was a Muslim intellectual, philosopher, and poet and a personality of Islam in Pakistan . He was the founding director of the Institute of Islamic Culture in Lahore.

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Khalifa Abdul Hakim was born in Lahore, British India, the ancient capital of the Punjab Province, in 1896 . He studied at Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College) in Aligarh and at St Stephen's College in Delhi . He received his doctorate in philosophy from Heidelberg University in Germany . He taught philosophy, among others at Osmania University in Hyderabad ( Dekkan ). After the partition of India in 1947, he went to Pakistan, where he headed the Institute of Islamic Culture (IIC) in Lahore from 1949 to 1959 . Khalifa Abdul Hakim wrote in Urdu , English and Persian and translated from Persian. He is known as the author of a work on the metaphysics of the Persian mystical poet Rumi (1207–1273), with which he received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1933 . For the two-volume history of Muslim philosophy ( A History of Muslim Philosophy ) edited by MM Sharif , he also contributed a contribution about Rumi (chapter 42) and a poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) who is considered the spiritual father of Pakistan. (Chapter 82: Renaissance in Indo-Pakistan: Iqbal). In his honor, a Khalifa Abdul Hakim Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Islamic Culture takes place every year in the auditorium of the Quaid-e-Azam Library .

With Iqbal and his views on the west Khalifa Abdul Hakim took a critical view:

“This tendency to criticize the West is so deeply embedded in Iqbal's thoughts that in so many of his poems, even if it is completely out of place, he will insert one odd critical strike to the West. (Eng. This tendency to criticize the West is so deeply embedded in Iqbal's thoughts that - even if this is completely out of place - in many of his poems, he inserts a strangely critical swipe at the West.) "

When his most famous work is considered Islamic ideology: The fundamental beliefs and principles of Islam and Their application to practical life ( Islamic ideology: the fundamental beliefs and principles of Islam and its application to practical life ), which has been widely reprinted.

He died in Lahore, Pakistan in 1959.

Quote

"If Marxism is the antithesis of the capitalist thesis, then Islam stands opposite the two as a dialectical synthesis".

Publications (selection)

  • The metaphysics of Rumi (a critical and historical sketch). Lahore: Ripon Press, 1933. Zugl .: Heidelberg Univ., Diss., 1933
  • Islamic ideology: The fundamental beliefs and principles of Islam and their application to practical life. Institute of Islamic Culture Lahore, Tenth edition 2006 ( digitized version )
  • Islam & Communism. Lahore: Institute of Islamic Culture, 1953
  • Fikr-e-Iqbal [Iqbal's thinking] (Lahore: Bazm-e-Iqbal, 1988)
  • "Hikmat e Rumi" (Lahore: Idara Saqaafat e Islamia, 1955)

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ The year of birth is also given as 1893 and 1894.
  2. ↑ khalifaabdulhakim.com: Institute of Islamic Culture  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "The main objective for its creation was research and publication of books related to progressive aspects of Islamic ideology and culture." (Eng. The main goal for its creation was the research and publication of books related to progressive aspects of Islamic ideas and culture. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / khalifaabdulhakim.com  
  3. ↑ khalifaabdulhakim.com
  4. ↑ Available online: Volume I (1963), Volume II (1966).
  5. ↑ quoted from: Masood Ashraf Raja: “Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, the West, and the Quest for a Modern Muslim Identity”, The International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association ( Online , p. 38 f.) - there after: Khalifa Abdul Hakim , Fikr-e-Iqbal [Iqbal's Thought] (Lahore: Bazm-e Iqbal, 1988).
  6. ↑ According to Annemarie Schimmel : Islam in the Indian subcontinent. WBG, Darmstadt 1983, p. 135.

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SURNAME Abdul Hakim, Khalifa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ʿAbd-al-Ḥakīm, H̱alīfah; Khalifah Abdul Hakim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani intellectual, philosopher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahore
DATE OF DEATH 1959
Place of death Lahore