Syed Zafarul Hasan

Syed Zafarul Hasan

Syed Zafarul Hasan (February 14, 1885 - June 19, 1949) was a prominent twentieth-century Muslim philosopher.

Biography

His father was Khan Sahib Syed Diwan Mohammad.

Hasan was educated at Allahabad (M.A., LL. B.) and obtained doctorates from the universities of Erlangen and Heidelberg, Germany, and Oxford University. His doctoral thesis "Realism" is a classic on the subject. Prominent philosophers and educationists lauded his work, among them, his teacher Prof. J [ohn] A [lexander] Smith (1863-1930), and Allama Mohammad Iqbal.

He started teaching at the Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 1911. In 1913, he became professor of philosophy at Islamia College, Pehawar. From 1924 to 1945 he was professor of philosophy at the Muslim University, Aligarh - where he also served as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. There, in 1939, he put forward the 'Aligarh Scheme' along with Muhammad Afzal Husain. They published a scheme ("The Problem of Indian Muslims") proposing three independent States.

From 1945 until the partition of the sub-continent, Dr Hasan was Emeritus Professor at Aligarh. In August 1947, he migrated to Lahore, Pakistan. He started work on a book that he could not complete due to his death in 1949. Only one volume ("PHILOSOPHY - A Critique") was ready, which was published from Lahore in 1988.

He received honours and served on a number of bodies: Member of Court, Member of Executive Council, Finance Co., Com. of Advanced Studies, Aligarh Muslim Univ.; Dir., Jamiat-ut-Tamaddunil-Islami, Bombay; Member, International Academy of Philosophy, Erlangen. Pres., Islami Jamaat, Aligarh. Member: Education Committee, All-India Muslim League; Kant Gesellscaft (Germany); Mind Assn. (England); Philosophical Congress (India); Academic Council of Muslim Univ. at Aligarh.

Works

* "Realism - An Attempt To Trace Its Origin And Development In Its Chief Representatives" (Cambridge University Press, London, 1928)
* "Realism" (translated into Urdu), 1927
* "Monismus Spinozas", 1922
* "Descartes' Dualism", 1912
* "Philosophy and Education", 1927
* "Philosophy and Its Advantages", 1931
* "Realism is not Metaphysics", 1931
* "Islamics", 1936
* "The Problem", 1933
* "Revelation and Apostle", 1937
* "Message of Iqbal", 1938
* "Philosophy of Religion"
* " Philosophy of Islam"
* "Philosophy of Kant"
* "PHILOSOPHY - A Critique" (Lahore, 1988)

ources

* "WORLD BIOGRAPHY", FOURTH EDITION of the BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD [INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOGRAPHY, (Incorporated in 1934), 296 Broadway NEW YORK 7, N.Y.] , page 2183).


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