Fazlur Rahman Ansari
Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari (14 August 1914 – 3 June 1974) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and philosopher.
He was the founder of the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies and Founder President of the World Federation of Islamic Missions.[1]
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| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
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Early life
Muhammad was born in Saharanpur, British India, on 14 August 1914. At the age of six and a half years, he memorised the Quran at the Madrassah Islamiah of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.[2]
Education
In 1933, Ansari enrolled for his BA degree at the Aligarh Muslim University, and majored in Philosophy, English and Arabic.[3] He eventually earned a PhD in Philosophy.[4]
Later life and death
Having migrated to Pakistan in 1947, on the advice of his father-in-law, the scholar Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi, he worked with him specially in Guyana to defend Sunni Barelvi practices and traditions such as Mawlid and Ziarah.[5] he passed away in Karachi in 1974, at the age of 60, during his last days being a teacher of Islamic studies at the Karachi University.[6]
Books and booklets
His books and booklets include:[7]
- The Qurʼanic foundations and structure of Muslim society in 2 volumes
- Islam and Christianity in the modern world; being an exposition of the Qurʼanic view of Christianity in the light of modern research
- Islam to the modern mind : lectures in South Africa, 1970 & 1972
- Foundations of faith : a commonsense exposition
- Through science and philosophy to religion : being a treatise on the necessity of divine revelation
- Islam versus Marxism; being an essay written for the Muslim - Christian convention held in Lebanon in 1954
References
- ^ Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari (R.A). caribbeanmuslims.com
- ^ Dr Hafiz Muhammad Fazlur Rehman Ansari Al Qadri (ra). World Federation of Islamic Missions
- ^ Dr Maulana Fazlur Rahman Ansari, His Life, Works and Thoughts. archive.org
- ^ Islamic Order, vol. 1, p. 110
- ^ Maurits S. Hassankhan; Goolam Vahed; Lomarsh Roopnarine (10 November 2016). Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora: Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies. Taylor & Francis. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-1-351-98686-1.
- ^ Syed Ali Ashraf in Muslim Education Quarterly, vol. 2, p. 82
- ^ Profile on WorldCat
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