Introduction of

Professor Dr. Syed Zafrul  Hasan

 


Dr. Syed Zafarul Hasan (Born February 14, 1885) was a Philosophy student (Oxford, United Kingdom & Erlangen, Germany). He got two Doctorates (from Oxford University, UK & Erlangen University, Germany). His Doctoral thesis in German language, Monismus Spinoza, was written in 1922. Dr Zafarul Hasan was the first Muslim Scholar of the Indian sub-continent to secure a PhD from Oxford in Philosophy. His doctoral thesis Realism is a classic on the subject. Prominent philosophers and educationists lauded his work, among them, his teacher Prof. John Alaxander Smith (1863–1930).

 This illustrious son of Islam was one of the greatest acknowledged philosophical thinkers of this age. The first Asiatic to get D. Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford, his great work on "Realism" (published by the Cambridge University Press) was hailed as a classic on the subject unsurpassed to this day. In that book he founded a new school of Philosophy in conformity with Islamic norms, which he later developed in his book on Philosophy of Religion completed shortly before his demise in Pakistan in 1948. He was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the Aligarh Muslim University for decades and also held the honours of being Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy there. He was also one of the inspirers of the World Federation of Islamic Missions.

The Research Work of Prof. Dr. S. Z. Hasan

• Descartes’ Dualism, 1912

• Monismus Spinozas, 1922

• Realism (translated into Urdu), 1927

• Philosophy and Education, 1927

• Realism – An Attempt To Trace Its Origin And Development In Its Chief Representatives (Cambridge University Press, London, 1928)

• Philosophy and Its Advantages, 1931

• Realism is not Metaphysics, 1931

• The Problem, 1933

• Revelation and Apostle, 1937

• Message of Iqbal, 1938

• Philosophy of Religion

• Philosophy of Islam

• Philosophy of Kant

• PHILOSOPHY – A Critique (Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore, 1988)

 


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