Abstract
This article reproduces 28 unpublished letters of Prof. Maulavi
Muhammad Shafi, the founder chairman of the editorial board of the Urdu
Encyclopedia of Islam and his successors (Dr. Muhammad Wahid Mirza,
Allama Alauddin Siddiqui, Prof. Hamid Ahmad Khan and Dr. Sayyid
Abdullah), addressed to Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah (1908-2002). The
project of compilation of Encyclopedia of Islam in Urdu was launched in
1950 by the University of the Punjab and Prof. Maulavi Muhammad Shafi
(1883-1963), the former Principal of the Punjab University Oriental
College(1936-1942), was appointed as the chairman of the editorial board.
For the compilation of this Encyclopaedia, a foreign editorial board was
constituted and Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah, residing in Paris, was
appointed as honorary secretary. During the years 1951-1963, an intensive
correspondence between Prof. Shafi and Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah took
place. During that period, Dr. Hamidullah made a remarkable contribution
to this project. To seek scholarly contribution, Prof. Shafi's successors at the
Department of Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam also corresponded with Dr.
Hamidullah, though its scale was gradually reduced.This collection of
letters is quite interesting, as it sheds light on the daunting and tremendous
task of the compilation of Urdu Encyclopedia of Islam and the contribution of
Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah, to this encyclopedia.
Muhammad Arshad. (2018) معاروف نامے بانم ڈاکٹر محمدحمید اللہ , Bazyaft, Vol 33, Issue 2.
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