Muhammad Hamidullah

Muhammad Hamidullah

Full name	Muhammad Hamidullah
Born	February 09, 1908 Hyderabad Deccan
Died	December 17, 2002 Jacksonville, USA
Era	Modern era
Region	Islamic scholar
Main interests	Islamic law, International Law, Quranic Tafsir and Hadith
Notable ideas	Evolution of Islamic International Law
Influenced by Maulana Manazir Ahsan Gilani and others
Influenced Islamic law, International Law, Contemporary Islamic philosophy

Muhammad Hamidullah (Urdu: محمد حمیداللہ), (February 9, 1908 – December 17, 2002) D. Phil., D. Litt., HI, was a Muhaddith, Faqih, scholar of Islamic law and an academic author (over 450 books cited in WorldCat.org - world's largest bibliographic database). Born in Hyderabad Deccan (now Hyderabad, India).

He hails from a family of scholars, jurists, writers and administrators. He is known for contributions to the research of Hadith history, translations of the Qur'an into multiple languages and in particular into French language (first by a Muslim scholar) and for the the monumental biography of the Prophet Muhammad in French. Hamidullah was the last remaining citizen of the erstwhile state of Hyderabad (now capital of Andhra Pradesh, India) and never obtain the citizenship of any other nation and was classed as a Refugee of Hyderabad by the French Government who allowed him to stay in Paris, exiled from his homeland after its annexation by the Indian Government in 1948.

Books

A prolific writer, his extensive works on Islamic science, history and culture number more than 450 and many thousands of articles in learned journals in seven languages.

• The Muslim Conduct of State by Muhammad Hamidullah (1941)
• Introduction to Islam by Muhammad Hamidullah (1969)
• Battlefields of the Prophet Muhammad by Muhammad Hamidullah (1992)
• Die Rezeption Europaischen Rechts in Haiderabad by Muhammad Hamidullah (1953)
• Emergence of Islam (Publication) by Muhammad Hamidullah (1993)
• Islam in a Nutshell by Muhammad Hamidullah (1996)
• Le Coran - Et la traduction française du sens de ses versets by Muhammad Hamidullah (2001)
• Le Saint Coran: Traduction Et Commentaire de Muhammad Hamidullah Avec La Collaboration de M. Leturmy by Muhammad Hamidullah (1989)
• Embassy of Queen Bertha of Rome to Caliph al-Muktafi Billah in Baghdad by Muhammad Hamidullah (1953)
• The First Written Constitution in the World by Muhammad Hamidullah (1986)
• The first written constitution in the world;: An important document of the time of the Holy Prophet by Muhammad Hamidullah (1975)
• Introduction to Islam by Muhammad Hamidullah (1969)
• Islamic notion of conflict of laws by Muhammad Hamidullah (1945)
• Islam, a General Picture by Muhammad Hamidullah (1980)
• Islam, Philosophy and Science: Four Public Lectures Organized By Unesco June 1980 by Muhammad Hamidullah (editor)(1981)
• Kur'ân-¸ Ker¸m tarihi: Bir deneme (Ilmi eserler) by Muhammad Hamidullah (1991)
• Le "Livre Des Genenalogies" [D'al-Baladuriy by al-Baladuri] by Muhammad Hamidullah [Ahmad Ibn Yahya] (1954)
• The life and work of the Prophet of Islam by Muhammad Hamidullah (1998)
• Muhammad Ibn Ishaq, the biographer of the Holy Prophet (Pakistan Historical Society. Publication) by Muhammad Hamidullah (1967)
• Muhammad Rasulullah: A concise survey of the life and work of the founder of Islam by Muhammad Hamidullah (1979)
• Muslim conduct of state: Being a treatise on Siyar (Siyar), general introduction by Muhammad Hamidullah (1953)
• The prophet of Islam: Prophet of migration by Muhammad Hamidullah (1989)
• The Prophet's establishing a state and his succession by Muhammad Hamidullah (1988)
• Why Fast?: Spiritual & Temporal Study of Fast in Islam (Centre Culturel Islamique Paris Series) by Muhammad Hamidullah (1982)

See also

• Contemporary Islamic philosophy
• Islamism
• Jamia Nizamia

External links

• Online Quran Project includes the French Qur'an translation by Muhammad Hamidullah.
• Website about Muhammad Hamidullah
• Hamidullah: Great Scholar, Simple Man
• A slightly edited excerpt from Introduction to Islam by Muhammad Hamidullah
• Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah (1909-2002) bio by Prof. Dr A.R. Momin
• Remembering Muhammad Hamidullah
• Remembering Dr. Hamidullah
• Obituary: Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah
• Greatest living Islamic scholar Dr. Hamidullah passes away