Muhammad 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]

Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari
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ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
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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
  1. Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari (R.A). caribbeanmuslims.com
  2. Dr Hafiz Muhammad Fazlur Rehman Ansari Al Qadri (ra). World Federation of Islamic Missions
  3. Dr Maulana Fazlur Rahman Ansari, His Life, Works and Thoughts. archive.org
  4. Islamic Order, vol. 1, p. 110
  5. 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.
  6. Syed Ali Ashraf in Muslim Education Quarterly, vol. 2, p. 82
  7. Profile on WorldCat
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