Muhammad Hamidullah

Portrait of Muhammad Hamidullah

Muhammad Hamidullah (born February 19, 1908 in Hyderabad , India , † December 17, 2002 in Jacksonville , Florida ) was an Indian Islamic scholar.

Life

Hamidullah grew up as the youngest of eight children. After receiving his first education from his Islamic scholarly family, he began schooling at Daru'l Ulum Madrasa and Jamia Nizamia in Hyderabad. Hamidullah then studied international law at Osmania University . He later took a closer look at books on Islamic international law such as those in the libraries of the Hijas, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Turkey. Hamidullah wrote his doctoral thesis in 1933 in Bonn at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität on the same subject, in order to then conduct further research in Paris. Hamidullah received a doctorate (D.ès.L.) at the Sorbonne ( Paris ) in 1935. Hamidullah also used many North African libraries. After returning to India, he was able to take up his work at Osmania University. While he was appointed professor there in 1948 and was temporarily abroad for professional reasons, the state of Hyderabad was occupied by the Indian government. Hamidullah decided not to return to Hyderabad, but to settle in France as a political refugee.

Hamidullah gave lectures and organized conferences at many universities in France, Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. In 1952 he began to work at the University of Istanbul, where he worked for several years as a professor at the Faculty of Literature at the Institute for Islamic Research and in Erzurum at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Ataturk University . He also wrote scientific articles for many theological journals. He was also a member of the French National Research Organization ( CNRS ).

Works

• Why fast A study of fasting in Islam from a spiritual and material point of view (= series of the Islamic Center Geneva, No. 2). Islamic Center , Geneva and Indo-Oriental Publishing, Zurich. 3. Completely revised and supplemented new edition by Dâr-us-Salâm , Garching near Munich 2003. ISBN 3-932129-11-3 .
• The islam. History, religion, culture . 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Islamisches Zentrum , Aachen and Center Culturel Islam, Paris 1983. 3rd, improved and supplemented edition by Islamisches Zentrum, Aachen 1995. ISBN 3-923861-01-X . Also published as No. 19 in the series of the Islamic Center in Munich . 1st edition. Islamic Center , Munich 1991. ISBN 3-89263-019-4 .
• The history of Islam (= Hamidullah series . Volume 1). Kitap Kulübü, Cologne 2007.
• The teaching of Islam (= Hamidullah series . Volume 2). Kitap Kulübü, Cologne 2007.
• The practice of faith in Islam (= Hamidullah series . Volume 3). Kitap Kulübü, Cologne 2007.
• Everyday life in Islam (= Hamidullah series . Volume 4). Kitap Kulübü, Cologne 2007.
• The sources of Islam (= Hamidullah series . Volume 5). Kitap Kulübü, Cologne 2007.
• Politics, economics and science in Islam (= Hamidullah series . Volume 6). Kitap Kulübü, Cologne 2007.
• The legal understanding of Islam (= Hamidullah series . Volume 7). Kitap Kulübü, Cologne 2007.
• Muhammad - Prophet of Islam. His life, his work (= Le Prophète de l'Islam)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le document qui établit officiellement, sous la cote CAC20020476 / 240 parmi les thèses de Doctorat ès Lettres, la soutenance de celle de Muhammad Hamidullah à la date de 1935. ( Memento of the original of January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. & Catalog SUDOC, n0 055208835, SF; thèse: état, "Muhammad Hamidullah diplomatie". 

Web links

• Literature by and about Muhammad Hamidullah in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Muhammad Hamidullah in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)