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ALI, DR. HASHIM AMIR

Dr. Hashim Amir-Ali(Urdu: هاشم أمير على), (b.1903-1987), was a native of Hyderabad, capital of what was the premier princely state in the center of India. He was brought up in the palace of Salar Jung. He received his early college education in his native land and had a degree from University of Bombay, followed by study at the University of Chicago in Education and Sociology at graduate level (1927-28) and mainly at Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Rural Sociology (1929), his thesis being: "Social change in the Hyderabad state in India as affected by the influence of Western culture."

Dr. Ali led led a varied and distinguished career in academia and government, including three years of association with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. He was Private Secretary to the Chief minister of Hyderabad, Rt. Hon'ble Sir Akbar Hydari, and he served as Trustee of some of H.E.H. the Nizam's Private and Religious Trusts (1967) established by the last hereditary ruler of Hyderabad. He was dean of agriculture at Osmania University, Hyderabad-Deccan, India.

In 1938 Dr. Ali came under the influence of Mirza Abul Fazl Allahabadi, and took deep interest in the study of the Qur`an and was aware of the significance of the chronological order of the Qur`an. He translated the Qur`an into English and arranged it according to chronological order.

Dr. Ali was an active advocate of calendar reform for about ten years. He was a leading Moslem authority on calendar matters. He returned to America in 1953 under a fellowship from the Fulbright and Ford Foundation. He initiated in Hyderabad a movement to synchronize the dates of the Fasli months with the Gregorian calendar, and finally succeeded, in 1946, in persuading the Nizam to authorize the proposed reform. His success in this far-reaching revision emboldened him, as a liberal Moslem, to analyze the problem of introducing effectively The World Calendar in the realm of the Crescent.

Between 1926 and 1969 he travelled U.S.A. Australia, Egypt, Tehran, Baghdad, Beirut, Istanbul and Japan.

Publications by Dr. Hashim Amir-Ali :

• The Student's Quran : An Introduction. (1961) • The Message of the Qur'an. Presented in Perspective. (1974) • The Meos of Mewat; old neighbours of New Delhi. • The Environs of Tagore - Then and Now. (1961) • Facts and Fancies - A book of essays. (1947) • The Bengal peasants from Time to Time. • Upstream Downstream : Reconstruction of Islamic Chronology. (1978)

FAZL, DR. MIRZA ABUL

Mirza Abul Fazl (Urdu: ميرزا أبوالفضل),(d. 1375/1956), was a native of Allahabad, India. Among the contemporary Muslim scholars Dr. Mirza Abul Fazl was a pioneer who took interest in the study of the chronological order of the Qur`an and invited the attention of Muslim scholars towards its importance. He was the first Muslim to present a translation of the Qur'an in to English along with the original Arabic text (1910). When he published the English translation of the Qur`an in 1911, he arranged the Surahs according to their chronological order. In this regard he conducted his own research but mostly followed the chronological order determined by Noeldeke, except that in the placement of two Surahs he differed from Noeldeke and because of changing the order of these two Surahs, the arrangement of eight Surahs had to be changed.

Publication by Mirza Abul Fazl :

1. The Qur'an, Arabic Text and English Translation Arranged Chronologically with an Abstract (Allahabad, 1911).

2. "Muhammad in the Hadees, or Sayings of the Prophet Mohammad". (Abbas Manzil Library, 195-.)

Md. Nasireddin Ghani (talk) 05:21, 6 September 2009 (UTC)