Fazlur Rahman Malik
Fazlur Rahman (Arabic فضل الرحمان, DMG Fadl al-Rahman ) (* September 21, 1919, † 26 July 1988) was a Pakistani philosopher and liberal Islamic thinker who from 1969 until his death as a university lecturer at the University of Chicago worked.
Born in British India in the field, which today belongs to Pakistan, he studied at the University of the Punjab, Lahore ( Master in Arabic Language, 1942 ) and then at Oxford University, where he received his doctorate in 1949. From 1950 to 1958 he worked as a Lecturer in Persian Studies and Islamic philosophy at Durham University, 1958-1961 Associate Professor in the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He received international attention for the first time in 1952 with his book, Avicenna 's Psychology, in which he worked out the influence of the Muslim philosopher Ibn Sina on Thomas Aquinas.
In 1961, he returned to Pakistan to conduct there, the state Central Institute of Islamic Research in Karachi. During this time he wrote his book on the history of the Islamic textual hermeneutics Islamic Methodology in History. Fazlur Rahman's attempts to mobilize the Central Institute for the fight against traditionalist and radical Muslims, but failed. Particularly controversial was his critical position to the hadith traditions, for which he was denounced by his opponents as a " destroyer of hadiths ."
1969 Fazlur Rahman was appointed Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago. In this position, he wrote, among other things, his book Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition, in which he called for a historical and critical examination of the Islamic heritage.
Among the students Fazlur Rahman Mustafa Cerić heard 1993-2012 Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina.