ڈاکٹرمحمدحمیداللہ کے چند خطوط:پیش کش وتوضیح

Some Letters of Muhammad Hamidullah: An Annotated Presentation

Abstract

Muhammad Hamidullah was a famous Muslim polymath of the twentieth century. He contributed to different Islamic disciplines in the Urdu, Arabic, English, French, and German languages. Besides books and papers, he penned down a great number of letters, which contain a wealth of information. Because of this, many scholars have collected and published his letters, which he wrote to them or other people. Raḥīm Bakhsh Shāhīn is one of them. He was an expert in Iqbal studies and headed the Department of Iqbal Studies at Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad. This article presents four unpublished letters of Muhammad Hamidullah. Two of these letters were addressed to Shāhīn while the other two were addressed to the editor of a London-based fortnightly journal, Impact International. They are in the collection of Shāhīn. The article reproduces the original text of these letters along with the necessary translation and explanatory notes.