A 

History 

of 

Muslim Philosophy

 Notes on Contributors

Arranged by Contributor

Edited and Introduced by 

M. M. SHARIF 

Director of the Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore (Pakistan) 

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTORS

1. I. I. Kazi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sind (Chairman)

2. The Educational Advisor and Secretary to the Government of Pakistan

3. Mumtaz Hasan, Secretary Finance, Government of Pakistan

4. Khalifah Abdul Hakim, Director, , Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore

5. Serajul Haque, Professor and Chairman, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Dacca

6. M. Abdul Hye, Vice-Principal, Government College, Rajshahi

7. M. Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor, Rajshahi University

8. M. M. Sharif, President, Pakistan Philosophical Congress (Secretary and Editor) 

A

• Syed Abid Ali Abid, M.A., Formerly, Principal, Dyal Singh College, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 37: Political Theory of the Shi'ties
  • Chapter 59: Minor Arts  

• Khalifah Abdul Hakim, M. A., Ph. D., Director, Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 42: Jalal al-Din Rumi
  • Chapter 82: Renaissance in Indo-Pakistan (Continued): Iqbal   

• A. E. Affifi, Ph.D., Member of the Higher Council of Arts and Social Sciences in Cairo, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University (Egypt)
  • Chapter 20: Ibn 'Arabi  

• Abdul Shakoor Ahsan, M. A. LL. B. Senior Lecturer in Persian, University of the Panjab, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 40: Fall of the 'Abbasid Caliphate  
  •  Chapter 77: Renaissance in Iran: General

• Nafis Ahmad, M. A., Ph. D., F. R. G. S., F.A.G.S., Professor and Chairman, Department of Geography, University of Dacca (Bangladesh)
  • Chapter 62: Geography  

• M. Ajmal, Bureau of National Reconstruction, Rawalpindi (Pakistan) 
  • Chapter 56: Painting

• A. K. M. Ayyub Ali, M.A., Ph.D., Principal, Government Rajshahi Madrasah, Rajshahi (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 12: Tahawism 
  • Chapter 13: Maturdism 

• Osman Amin, D. Litt., Professor and Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Cairo University (Egypt).
  • Chapter 74: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani  
  • Chapter 75: Renaissance in Egypt: Muhammad Abdu and His School

• S. M. Abdullah, M. A. , M.O.L., D. Litt., Professor and Chairman, Department of Urdu, University of the Punjab; Principal, Oriental College, Lahore (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 71: The Silver Lining: Development of the Urdu Language, Grammar, and Literature  

B

• Abdurrahman Badawi, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Ein-Shams University (Egypt)
  • Chapter 22: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
  • Chapter 24: Miskawaih  

• Alessandro Bausani, Ph.D., Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Naples (Italy)
  • Chapter 3: Pre-Islamic Iranian Thought

• Niazie Berkes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University (Canada)
  • Chapter 76: Renaissance in Turkey: Zia Gokalp and His School

• Leonard Binder, Ph.D. Institute for Administrative affairs, Faculty of Law, Tehran University, Tehran (Iran).
  • Chapter 39: Al-Ghazali  

C

• K. A. C. Creswell, F. S. A., Hons., A.R. I. B. A., School of Oriental Studies, The American University, Cairo (Egypt)
  • Chapter 55: A. The First Three Centuries of Muslim Architecture

D

• B. A. Dar, fellow at the Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 8: Ethical Teachings of the Qur'an 
  • Chapter 17:  A.  Sufis before Hallaj  
  • Chapter 18: 'Abd al-Qadir Jilani and Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi
  • Chapter 43: Mahmud Shabistari, al-Jili and Jami 
  • Chapter 81: Renaissance in Indo-Pakistan (Continued): Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan as a Religio-Philosopical Thinker 

• Howard F. Didsbury, Jr., M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Newark State College, Union, New Jersey and Adjunct Professor at American University, Washington D.C. (USA)
  • Chapter 2: Pre-Islamic Chinese thought 

E

• Ahmed Fouad El-Ehwany, Ph.D., Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University (Egypt)
  • Chapter 21: Al-Kindi
  • Chapter 28: Ibn Rushd  

F - G

• Muhammad Farman, M. A. Professor of Philosophy, Zamindara College, Gujarat (Pakistan) 
  • Chapter 44: Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi  

• H. G. Farmer, M. A., Ph.D., D. Litt., D. Mus., Assistant Librarian (in charge of Music), Glasgow University Library; Vice-President, Glasgow University Oriental Society (U. K.) 
  • Chapter 57: Music
  • Chapter 58: Music (Continued)

• Omar A. Farrukh, Ph.D., Member of the Arab academy, Damascus (Syria)
  • Chapter 14: Zahirism 
  • Chapter 15: Ikhawan al-Safa

H

• Abdul Hamid, M. A. Ph.D., Professor of History, Government College, Lahore (Pakistan). 
  • Chapter 80: Renaissance in Indo-Pakistan (Continued): Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan as a Politician, Historian and Reformist  

• M. Hamidullah, M.A., Ph.D., D. Litt., 4, Rue de Tournon, Paris (France).
  • Chapter 61: Jurisprudence

• M. Hamiduddin, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Professor and Chairman, Department of Philosophy and Psychology, Government College, Lahore (Pakistan). 
  • Chapter 16: Early Sufis: Doctrine

• Serajul Haque, M. A., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Dacca (Bangladesh)
  • Chapter 41: Ibn Taimiyah  

• M. Rukunuddin Hassan, Chairman, Department of Political Science, Urdu College, Karachi, (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 38: Nizam al-Mulk Tusi  

• S. Sibte Hasan, M.A., Formerly, Lecturer in Jefferson School of Social Sciences, New York; Editor, Pakistan Review, Lahore (Pakistan)  and M. Abdullah Chaghatai, D. Litt, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 55: B. Muslim Architecture in Later Centuries  

•  M. Abdul Hye, M.A., Professor of Philosophy, Government College, Rajshahi (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 11: Ash'arism

I - J

• Shaikh Inayatullah, M.A., Ph.D., formerly Professor of Arabic, University of the Panjab, Lahore (Pakistan). 
  • Chapter 6: Pre-Islamic Arabian Thought 

K - L

• Abdul Khaliq, , M.A., Professor of Philosophy, Islamia College, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 31: Al-Ghazali (continued): B.  Ethics (html)

• Muhammad Qamaruddin Khan, M.A., Lecturer in Islamics, , University of the Punjab, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 36: Al-Mawardi  

• M. Khalaf-allah, M. A., Dean, Faculty of Arts, and Chairman, Department of Arabic and Oriental Studies, Alexandria University (Egypt)
  • Chapter 52: Arabic Literature: Theories of Literary Criticism

• Muhammad Abdur Rahman Khan, B. Sc., A.R.C.S., F.R.A.S., Principal and Chairman, Department of Physics, Osmania University College; President, Hyderabad Academy, Hyderabad Deccan (India)
  • Chapter 64: Physics and Mineralogy

• Muhammad Khalil, LL.B., LL.D., Bar-at-Law, Advocate, Amman (Jordan)
  • Chapter 73: Renaissance in North Africa: The Sanusiyah Movement

M

• Ibrahim Madkour, Ph.D. Member of the Arabic Academy, Cairo formerly Professor of Philosophy, Cairo University (Egypt)
  •  Chapter 23: Al-Farabi

• Muhsin Mahdi, Professor of Arabic, University of Chicago, currently on a Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University.
  • Chapter 46: Ibn Khaldun  
  • Chapter 49: Ibn Khaldun  (Part 6: POLITICAL THOUGHT)

• S. Mahdihassan, Ph.D., F.I.I.Sc., F.R.I.C., Chairman, Bio-chemical Division, Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Karachi (Pakistan).

  • Chapter 65: Chemistry

• Muhammad Saghir Hasan al-Ma'sumi, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Dacca (Bangladesh)
  • Chapter 26: Ibn Bajjah
  • Chapter 35: Al-Farabi

• Louis Massignon, Litt. D., Hon. Professor, College de France and Hautes Études, Sorbonne (France) 
  • Chapter 17: Early Sufis: (Continued): Al-Hallaj  

• Meedut Mansuroglu, Ph.D., Professor of Turkish Languages, Istanbul University, (Turkey). 
  • Chapter 54: Turkish literature

• Abul 'Ala Maudoodi, Editor, Tarjuman al-Qur'an, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 9: Economic and Political Teachings of the Qur'an 
  • Chapter 33: Political Thought in Early Islam  
  • Chapter 34: Abu Hanifah and Abu Yusuf

N - P

•  Sa'id Naficy, M. A., Formerly, Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Teheran University, Teheran (Iran).
  • Chapter 53: Persian Literature

• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor of the History of Science and Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tehran University, Tehran (Iran)
  • Chapter 19: Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi al-Maqtul
  • Chapter 32: Fakhr al-Din Razi
  • Chapter 47: The School of Ispahan
  • Chapter 48: Sadr al-Din Shirazi (Mulla Sadra)  
  • Chapter 66: Natural History
  • Chapter 78: Renaissance in Iran: (Continued) Haji Mulla Hadi Sabziwari 

Q

• C. A. Qadir, Professor of Philosophy, Government College, Lahore (Pakistan). 
  • Chapter 1: Pre -Islamic Indian thought
  • Chapter 5: Alexandrio-Syriac thought 
  • Chapter 69: Influence of Muslim Thought on the East  
  • Chapter 70: Decline in the Muslim World  

• I. H. Qureshi, M. A., Ph. D., Director, Central Institute of Islamic Research, Karachi (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 60: Historiography  

R

• Fazulr Rahman, M.A., D. Phil., Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University (Canada)
  • Chapter 25: Ibn Sina  

• Shaikh Abdur Rashid, M.A., Director, Historical Research Institute, University of Punjab, Lahore (Pakistan). 
  • Chapter 83: Renaissance in Indonesia 

S - T

• K. S. Shah, M. B., B.S., D. Sc., D.P.H., D.T.M., Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine, Fatimah Jinnah Medical College, Lahore (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 67: Medicine

• M. M. Sharif, Director of the Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Preface
  • Introduction  
  • Chapter 4: Greek thought 
  • Chapter 7: Philosophical Teachings of the Qur'an 
  • Chapter 68: Influence of Muslim Thought on the West: D. Philosophical Influence from Descartes to Kant 
  • CONCLUSION

• M. Saeed Sheikh, M.A., Professor of Philosophy, Government College, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 30: Al-Ghazali:  Metaphysics   (html)
  • Chapter 31: Al-Ghazali (continued) A. Mysticism (html)
  • Chapter 31: Al-Ghazali (continued) C. Influence (html)

• Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, M. A., Professor of Economics, Islamia College, Lahore; Jt. Editor, Tarjuman al-Qur'an, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 72: Renaissance in Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon: Muhammad Bin 'Abd al-Wahhab and His Movement  
  • Chapter 79: Renaissance in Indo-Pakistan: Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi 

• Bakhtyar Husain Siddiqi, M.A., LL.B., Lecturer in Philosophy, Government College, Lahore (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 27: Ibn Tufail
  • Chapter 29: Nasir al-Din Tusi  
  • Chapter 45: Jalal al-Din Dawwani

• M. R. Siddiqi, M. A., Ph.D., D.Sc., Vice-Chancellor, University of Sind, Hyderabad (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 63: Mathematics and Astronomy  

•  Salimuzzaman Siddiqi, D. Phil, Nat., Dr. Med. h. c., F.R.S., Director, Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Karachi (Pakistan).
  • Chapter 65: Chemistry

U

• H. Z. Ulken, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy and Logic, Ankara University (Turkey)
  • Chapter 68: C. Philosophical Influence before Descartes
  • Chapter 68: D. Philosophical Influence in the Post Kantian period

V - X

• Mir Valiuddin, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Osmania University, Hyderabad Deccan (India)
  • Chapter 10: Mu'tazlilism 

Y - Z

• S. M. Yusuf, M. A., Ph. D., Chairman, Department of Arabic, University of Karachi (Pakistan)
  • Chapter 50: Arabic Literature: Poetic and Prose Forms 
  • Chapter 51: Arabic Literature: Grammar and Lexicography

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  • Chapter 68: Influence of Muslim Thought on the West:
    1. Western Thinkers on Islam in General
    2. Theological Influence

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