Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi

Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi

I. I. Kazi
Born (1886-04-18)18 April 1886
Village Paat (now Dadu District), Bombay Presidency, British India
Died 13 April 1968(1968-04-13) (aged 81)
Hyderabad, Pakistan (buried at Jamshoro)
Spouse(s) Elsa Kazi[1]
(m. 1910 – wid. 1967) her death

Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi (Sindhi: علامه آء آء قاضي‎) (b. 1886 – d.1968), also known as Imdad Ali Kazi, the son of Kazi Imam Ali Ansari, was a scholar, philosopher, jurist, and educationist. He is considered to be a founding father of the University of Sindh at its present location at Jamshoro.[2] He published works of Sindhi art, literature, mysticism, education and history. Along with his wife Elsa, he wrote a book on comparative religion, The Adventures of the Brown Girl in her Search for God, which was published by Arthur H Stockwell Ltd., England, in 1933.[3] They also worked on a translation of the verses of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

Education and early life

Kazi was the second son of the second wife of Kazi Imam Ali Ansari, the District Magistrate of Hyderabad, and was born on 18 April 1886, at Hyderabad. [4]

Career

The British offered the young barrister the post of Civil Judge of Tando Mohammad Khan.[5]


Inscriptions on the dome of the last resting place of Mr and Mrs I I Kazi in Sindh University, Jamshoro

Legacy

Several books and articles and have been written on Kazi and tributes are paid to him annually on the anniversary of his death[6][7][8][9][10]

Allama I.I. Kazi Central Library at University of Sindh was named in honour of Kazi.[11]

References

  1. ↑ PakistanNews, One. "Allama I I Qazi Remembered".
  2. ↑ http://www.dawn.com/news/869179/bab-i-allama-i-i-kazi
  3. ↑ A catalogue of The Adventures of the Brown Girl in her search for God
  4. ↑ "I.I. Kazi remembered". DAWN. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Mushtaq Ali, Justice (1994). Allama I.I. Kazi. Karachi: Royal book company. p. 18.
  6. ↑ Management – The life of Allama I I Kazi
  7. ↑ Allama I I Kazi – a few glimpses from his life by Dr Ghulam Nabi Kazi
  8. ↑ Tributes paid to noted Sindh intellectual Allama Kazi
  9. ↑ I. I. Kazi's services for education eulogized
  10. ↑ A tribute to Allama I I Kazi
  11. ↑ Jamshoro, Sindh University. "Allam I.I. Kazi central library at University of Sindh". Retrieved 11 November 2013.
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