By TCN News,
New Delhi: PM Salih, Secretary General of Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) expressed his condolence at the demise of Dr. Abdul Haq Ansari. “His passing away is a loss of intellectual treasure and guidance to the Islamic Movement as well as Indian society,” he said.
Dr. Abdul Haq Ansari, the former President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, was a chief patron of SIO and an eminent Islamic scholar in contemporary India. He breathed his last on October 3, 2012. Salih called him a ‘guide and advisor’ of the SIO.
Dr. Ansari played a vital contribution in the ideological development to the Islamic movement in India, who concerned about academic and moral upliftment of students and youths, he added.
Dr. Ansari served as Professor and Head of the Department of Arabic, Persian and Islamic Studies at the Vishwa Bharti University from 1965 to 1978. He also taught Islamic Studies at Sudan University (1978-1981), Dhahran University (1982 -1985), and at Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University, Riyadh (1985 to 1995).
He joined the Jamaat at the very early stage of his academic career. He was elected member of Jamaat’s Central Council of Representatives and Central Advisory Council for many terms and served the organisation at its Ameer from 2003 to 2007. He had been Director of Islami Academy since 2005.
Dr. Ansari has more than a dozen books in Urdu and English to his credit. His books include Tasawwuf and Shari’ah and Learning the Language of the Qur’ān. He also participated in and presided over many national and international conferences, and had been on board of many international journals.
Born on September 1, 1931 at Tamkohi in district Deoaria of Uttar Pradesh, Dr. Ansari did Alimiyat from Darsgah Islami, Rampur in 1953, B.A. (Arabic) in 1957, M.A. in Philosophy in 1959 and Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1962 from Aligarh Muslim University, and M.T.S in Comparative Religion and Theology from Harvard University, U.S.A in 1972.