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| Fazlur Rahman, 1919-1988 | ||||||||
| Fazlur Rahman was born September 21, 1919, in what is today Pakistan. His early education was in Islamic schools followed by an M.A. degree from Punjab University, Lahore, in 1942, with a First Class in Arabic. He was awarded the D. Phil. degree by Oxford University in 1949 for his thesis, Avecenna's Psychology. | ||||||||
| He was lecturer in Persian Studies and Islamic Philosophy at Durham University from 1950-1958. In 1958, he was appointed Associate Professor in the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University in Montreal, where he remained until 1961. In 1962, he was named Director of the Central Institute of Islamic Research in Pakistan and continued in that capacity until 1968. | ||||||||
| In 1969, he was appointed Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago and in 1987 the University made him Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in recognition of his contributions to scholarship. | ||||||||
| The author of ten books and hundreds of articles, he was the ninth recipient of the Levi Delia Vida award for Islamic scholarship presented by UCLA. | ||||||||
| Professor Rahman passed away on July 26, 1988, due to complications of heart surgery. He was 68 years old. | ||||||||