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Abdul Hamid AbuSulayman
Islamic scholar (1936–2021)
Abdul Hamid Ahmad AbuSulayman (Arabic: عبد الحميد أحمد أبو سليمان) 1936 – 18 August 2021)[1][2] was an internationally renowned Islamic scholar, thinker, educationist and author of many books and articles on the subject of Islam and Islamic reform, especially in the fields of thought and education. He was Chairman of the International Institute of Islamic Thought[3] (IIIT) and was the Founding President of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) between 1989 and 1999.
Educational background
[edit]AbuSulayman obtained degrees of Bachelor of Arts in Commerce and Master of Arts in Political Science in 1959 and 1963 respectively; both were from the Cairo University. Ten years later, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.[4] His doctoral thesis entitled "Towards an Islamic Theory of International Relations: New Directions for Islamic Methodology and Thought", was published in the form of a book by IIIT.
Career
[edit]AbuSulayman started his career as a lecturer at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he chaired Department of Political Science from 1982 to 1984. He then moved
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The pandemic years, beginning in 2020 and still continuing as I write this in 2022, have provided little reprieve from the reality of hardship and pain in the face of loss. I have lost far too many of my friends and colleagues over the last few years, a period which has felt more like a decade or longer. Few losses were felt with such anguish as that of my dear friend Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr. AbdulHamid Ahmad AbuSulayman, the internationally renowned Islamic scholar, thinker, educationist and author of numerous books and articles, who passed away on 18 August 2021.
We were two men of different worlds, geographically, culturally, linguistically, and even generationally separate. Only a miracle could explain how I, a boy from a kampong (Malay village) in Penang would build a lifelong friendship with a man from Makkah. The turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s was as good a milieu as any for Dr. AbdulHamid and myself to be thrown together during the heyday of an Islamic revival movement, with hope growing out of the ashes of the colonial era. Dr. Ahmad Totonji, a master networker and doyen of public relations, instigated our many early meetings and developed our bond, which grew quickly due to our shared feelings on faith and intellectual rigor. At the time, conferences and int
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Remembering Prof. Old Dato’ Abdul Hamid A. Abu Sulayman
By Ssemuddu Imran
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