Muhammad Zafrullah Khan

Sir Chaudri Muhammad Zafrullah Khan

Al-Hajj Chaudri Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan , KCSI ( Urdu محمد ضفر ﷲ خان DMG Muḥammad Ḍafr Allāh Ḫān ; * February 6, 1893 in Sialkot , British India ; † September 1, 1985 in Lahore ) was the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan and later President of the UN General Assembly and then President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague . He joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on September 16, 1907 .

Life

He studied law at King's College London (1911-1914) and was a professor at Law College in Lahore (1919-1924). In 1926 he was elected a member of the Punjab Legislative Council . He took part in the "Round Table Conferences" that preceded India's independence from 1930 to 1932. From 1935 to 1941 he was a member of the Executive Council of the British Viceroy (in the rank of minister).

Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan represented India at the League of Nations in 1939. From September 1941 to 1947 - until the division of the Indian subcontinent - he was a judge at the Supreme Court of India. In July 1947, shortly before the partition of India, he presented the “Radcliffe Border Commission” with the Muslim League's position in favor of Pakistan and advocated a just demarcation of borders.

From December 1947 on, Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan represented Pakistan at the United Nations . Together with Muhammad Ali Jinnah , he was one of the founding fathers of this new state. From 1947 he served as Pakistan's first foreign minister for seven years until his election to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. From 1958 to 1961 he was Vice-President and from 1970 to 1973 President of the International Court of Justice, at which he also served as an ad hoc judge in three cases. 1962/63 he was President of the UN General Assembly.

Works

• Judaism, Christianity and Islam . Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Der Islam, 1985. ISBN 3-921458-09-9 .
• Principles of Islamic culture . Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Der Islam, 1991. ISBN 3-921458-49-8 .
• Islam and international relations . 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Der Islam, 1992. ISBN 3-921458-76-5 .
• Islam and Human Rights ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 295 kB) Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-932244-10-9 .
• Gardens of the Righteous: Riyadh As-Salihin of Imam Nawawi . Curzon Press; Islam International Publications, London 1975, ISBN 0-7007-0073-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Muhammad Zafrullah Khan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Images of Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community website.
• Muhammad Zafrullah Khan