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Muhammad Hamidullah

BornFebruary 09, 1908

Hyderabad Deccan

DiedDecember 17, 2002

Jacksonville,USA

Nationality Hyderabad State

Era Modern era

Region Islamic scholar

Religion Islam

Main interestsIslamic law,International Law,

QuranicTafsirandHadith

Alma mater

Jamia Nizamia,Osmania UniversityBonn University,Sorbonne

University

Notable ideasEvolution ofIslamicInternational

Law

Influenced by[show]Influenced[show]

Muhammad Hamidullah(Urdu: ), (February 9, 1908December 17, 2002)D. Phil.,D. Litt.,HI, was aMuhaddith,Faqih,scholarofIslamic lawand an academicauthorwith over

450 books[1]

cited inWorldCat.org, the world's largest bibliographic database. A double

doctorate, received his first doctorate (1933) from Bonn University, Germany and later hisDoctor of Letters (1934) from Sorbonne University, France. A prolific writer, his extensive

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works on Islamic science, history and culture have been published in several languages and

many thousands of articles in learned journals.[2]

His scholarship is regarded by many as

unparalleled in the last century. Apolymath, he was fluent in 22 languages including Urdu (hismother tongue),Persian, Arabic, French, English, German, Turkish etc. He learned Thai at the

age of 84.[3]

Hamidullah was from theDeccanarea ofBritish Indiaand was born in Hyderabad, capital city of

thenHyderabad State, (nowHyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India), and hails from a family of

scholars. The youngest amongst three brothers and five sisters, His ancestral roots belong to theNawayathcommunity, his ancestors belonging to the famed Meccan tribe, the Bani' Hashim,

some of whom migrated to India, settling first inMadrasfew centuries ago and were eminent

scholars in their own right. In 1948, Hamidullah was appointed by theNizamas part of the

delegation sent to London and theUnited Nationsin New York to seek support against theinvasion of the Nizam's territories by Indian Forces.

[4]Subsequently he moved to Pakistan and

was involved in writing ofPakistan's constitution, but did not to settle there as he did found the

cultural environment not to his liking. Nevertheless in 1985, he was awarded theHilal-e-Imtiaz,

the highest civilian award of Pakistan. The award included a substantial money amount but thiswas donated by him to the Islamic Research Academy, Islamabad.[5]

In 1948 he returned to France, living there for the rest of his life, apart from travel to teaching

posts he held in Turkey for a number of years. He also held a post withFrench National Centre

for Scientific Researchfrom 1954, which ended in 1978.

Hamidullah was the last remaining citizen of the erstwhileHyderabad State(which following

1956 reorganisation was divided into 3 on linguistic basis, and absorbed into other states of

India, most being in Andhra Pradesh) and never obtained the citizenship of any other nation.Classed as aRefugee of Hyderabadby the French Government, which allowed him to stay in

Paris, he remained exiled from his homeland after its annexation by theIndian Governmentin1948. Hamidullah devoted his whole life to scholarship and did not marry.[6]

His ancestors and extended family comprise ofjurists,writersandadministrators. His great

grandfather Maulvi Mohammed Ghauth Sharful-Mulk (d. 1822 CE) was scholar of Islamicsciences, writing over 30 books in Arabic, Persian and Urdu, including a seven volume exegesis

of the Qur'an. His maternal grandfatherQadiMohammed Sibghatullah was a jurist and an

scholar of repute writing an exegesis of the Holy Qu'ran as well as other books. He was alsoappointed Chief Judge ofMadrasin 1855 CE.

[7]

Hamidullah's father Mufti Abu Mohammed Khalilullah, was also scholar of Islamicjurisprudence, a director of revenue in the government ofNizamof Hyderabad, and the pioneer

in establishing an interest-free banking system in Hyderabad.[8]

Hamidullah is known for contributions to the research ofHadithhistory, translations of the

Qur'aninto multiple languages and in particular intoFrench language(first by a Muslim scholar)

and for the monumental biography of theProphet Muhammadin French. He is also famous fordiscovering a missing work on Prophet Muhammad regarded as one of his great contributions to

theHadithliterature. The earliest Hadith manuscript still extant today, Sahifa Hammam bin

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Munabbah, was discovered in a Damascus library. Hammam bin Munabbah being a disciple of

Abu Huraira one of theSahaba.[9]

It proved, that the earliest manuscripts had been absorbed into

the much bigger later compilations.

Contents

1 Books 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Books

The Muslim Conduct of State (1941) Introduction to Islam (1957)

Battlefields of the Prophet Muhammad(1992) Die Rezeption Europaischen Rechts in Haiderabad(1953) Emergence of Islam (1993) Islam in a Nutshell(1996) Le CoranEt la traduction franaise du sens de ses versets (2001) Le Saint Coran: Traduction Et Commentaire de Muhammad Hamidullah Avec La

Collaboration de M. Leturmy (from 1959 onwards)

Embassy of Queen Bertha of Rome to Caliph al-Muktafi Billah in Baghdad(1953) The First Written Constitution in the World(1975 and 1986) Introduction to Islam (1969) Islamic notion of conflict of laws (1945)

Islam: a General Picture (1980) Islam, Philosophy and Science: Four Public Lectures Organized By Unesco June 1980

(editor) (1981)

Kurn- Kerm tarihi: Bir deneme (Ilmi eserler) (1991) Le "Livre Des Genenalogies" [D'al-Baladuriy by al-Baladuri] (1954) The life and work of the Prophet of Islam (1998) Muhammad Ibn Ishaq, the biographer of the Holy Prophet(Pakistan Historical Society.

Publication) (1967)

Muhammad Rasulullah: A concise survey of the life and work of the founder of Islam(1979)

Muslim conduct of state: Being a treatise on Siyar (Siyar), general introduction (1953) The prophet of Islam: Prophet of migration (1989) The Prophet's establishing a state and his succession (1988) Why Fast?: Spiritual & Temporal Study of Fast in Islam (Centre Culturel Islamique

Paris Series) (1982)

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