Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar
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]
Early life and education
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]
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]
He was later trained by Abdul Aleem Siddiqi, his future father-in-law, in the mid-1930s as the Resident-Missionary and Editor of Genuine Islam.
Later life and death
He migrated to Pakistan in 1947, on the advice of his father-in-law, the scholar Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi, he worked with him to defend Sunni-Barelvi practices and traditions such as Mawlid and Ziarah.[5]
He died in Karachi in 1974, few weeks before turning 60, during his last years 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
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