Syed Zafarul Hasan
Syed Zafarul Hasan (14 February 1885 – 19 June 1949) was a prominent twentieth-century Pakistani
Biography
He was the eldest son of Khan Sahib Syed Diwan Mohammad.
Hasan was educated at Aligarh (M.A., LL. B.) and obtained doctorates from the universities of
He started teaching at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 1911. In 1913, he became professor of philosophy at Islamia College, Peshawar. From 1924 to 1945 he was professor of philosophy at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - where he also served as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. There, in 1939, he put forward the 'Aligarh Scheme' along with Dr Afzaal Hussain Qadri. They published a scheme ("The Problem of Indian Muslims") proposing three independent States.
From 1945 until the partition of the sub-continent, Dr Hasan was
He received honours and served on a number of bodies: Member of Court, Member of Executive Council, Finance Co., Com. of Advanced Studies, Aligarh Muslim Univ.; Dir., Jamiat-ut-Tamaddunil-Islami, Bombay; Member, International Academy of Philosophy, Erlangen. Pres., Islami Jamaat, Aligarh. Member: Education Committee, All-India Muslim League; Kant Gesellscaft (Germany); Mind Assn. (England); Philosophical Congress (India); Academic Council of Muslim Univ. at Aligarh.
Works
- Realism - An Attempt To Trace Its Origin And Development In Its Chief Representatives (Cambridge University Press, London, 1928)
- Realism (translated into Urdu), 1927
- Monismus Spinozas, 1922
- Descartes' Dualism, 1912
- Philosophy and Education, 1927
- Philosophy and Its Advantages, 1931
- Realism is not Metaphysics, 1931
- Islamics, 1936
- 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)
Sources
- World Biography, Fourth Edition of the Biographical Encyclopedia of the World, Institute for Research in Biography, New York, page 2183.
Philosophy - a Critique (by Syed Zafarul Hasan), Lahore, Pakistan: