MM Sharif

Mian Mohammad Sharif ( Urdu : مياں محمد شريف; born 1893 in Lahore , British India ; died 1965 in Islamabad , Pakistan ), known as MM Sharif , was an influential philosopher , university professor, and a personality of Islam in Pakistan.

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MM Sharif was born in Lahore in 1893 . He studied at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College) and at the University of Allahabad philosophy and continued his studies in England at GE Moore and Bertrand Russell , where he at the University of Cambridge doctorate. After his return from England he took a short time to the religious-political Pakistan Movement ( Pakistan Movement in part).

He distinguished himself for his remarkable work in analytical philosophy and as a pioneer of the idea of a Muslim philosophy . He is the editor of a well-known history of Muslim philosophy ( A History of Muslim philosophy. With short accounts of other disciplines and the modern renaissance in Muslim lands ), the first comprehensive study of Muslim thought, Muslim philosophy from the first century of Islam through to the present, on which numerous renowned scholars and personalities of Islam in Pakistan have contributed. According to Sharif, Muslim philosophy is expressed in three forms: dogmatism (either rationalist or traditionalist); Sufism ( tasawwuf ); Rationalism.

He was politically active in the Muslim League and advocated the establishment of a separate state, i.e. H. Pakistan, in British India . He was an important member of the Islamic Ideology Council ( Islamic Ideology Council ). He is a founding member of the Pakistan Philosophical Congress ( Pakistan Philosophical Congress ) and was its president was from the founding in 1954 until his death in 1965. From 1959 to 1965 he director of financed by the Government of Pakistan Institute of Islamic Culture (IIC). He was a professor at Punjab University in Lahore and taught at Islamia College until the end of his life.

MM Sharif died in Islamabad in 1965.

Publications

MM Sharif (eds.): A History of Muslim Philosophy ( History of Muslim Philosophy ). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1963, 1966 - available online: Volume I (1963), Volume II (1966).

Collected papers. Lahore: Institute of Islamic Culture (several volumes)

Muslim thought: its origin andachievements (first published in 1951 in Lahore, Pakistan) ( Online )

References and footnotes

↑ Available online: Volume 1 Volume 2 .
^ CA Qadir: Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World. 1990, p. 42.

literature

CA Qadir (Ed.): The World of Philosophy: Studies Prepared in Honor of Professor MM Sharif. (1 ed.). Lahore: Sharif Presentation Volume Committee (Pakistan Philosophical Congress) 1965. (in particular the contributions: BA Dar, “MM Sharif”; CA Qadir, “Preface”; BA Dar, “His Dialectical Monadism”)
CA Qadir : Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World (Croom Helm, 1988, Reprinted by Routledge, 1990), pp. 171-3

Web links

“A biographical sketch of MM Sharif” (with a list of his works, including translations and editions)

personal data
SURNAME	Sharif, MM
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sharif, Mian Mohammad; Sharīf, Miyān Muḥammad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pakistani philosopher, university professor, personality of Islam in Pakistan
DATE OF BIRTH	1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lahore , British India
DATE OF DEATH	1965
Place of death	Islamabad , Pakistan

[1] Available online: Volume 1 Volume 2 .

[2] CA Qadir: Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World. 1990, p. 42.