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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