Syed Nomanul Haq (Nu'man al-Haqq) (; born February 15, 1948 in

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) is a

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scholar and historian specialised in the fields of

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and

Islamic philosophy Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition. Two terms traditionally used in the Islamic world are sometimes translated as philosophy—''falsafa'' (), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, mathematics, and p ...

. He is currently a visiting distinguished professor at the Habib University, Karachi.

Life and career

Nomanul Haq was born in Pakistan, but spent most of his early life in England and the USA. At

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he received an undergraduate degree in

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and at

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he studied the history of science and philosophy. In his career spanning twenty years, Nomanul Haq has produced publications and editorial and research work on the

history and philosophy of science The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. Although many scholars in the field are trained primarily as either historians or as philosophers, there ...

postmodern philosophy Postmodern philosophy is a philosophy, philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in Modernism#Origins, modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identit ...

history of religion The history of religion is the written record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BCE). The Prehistoric religion, prehistory of reli ...

history of art The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetics ...

and

history of literature The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pie ...

. Nomanul Haq has published a number of books and newspaper articles. He writes both in English and in Urdu. In 2009, he contributed to a seminar at the Metanexus Institute. Noman has extended family in Pakistan, but his immediate family resides in the

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. Noman was married at the early age of 18.

Bibliography

* ''Names, Natures, and Things: The Alchemist Jaabir ibn Hayyaan and his Kitaab al-Ahjaar (Book of Stones)''. Dordrecht/London/ Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993 (Cloth). Paperback Edition, 1995. * With Ted Peters and Muzaffar Iqbal, ''God, Life, and the Cosmos: Theistic Perspectives.'' Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. * '' Harris Khalique, Select Verses, with an Analytical Introduction and Annotation'' (in Urdu). Karachi: Maktaba-e Daniyal, 2006. * ''Refiner’s Fire: Some Reflections on Neville, Postmodernism, and the Tends in Discourses on Islam'' in P. Heltzel and A. Yong eds. ''Theology in a Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Neville.'' New York/London: Continuum, T & T Clark International, 2004. * ''Islam and

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: Toward Retrieval and Reconstruction''. Daedalus. Fall 2001. Vol. 130, No. 4, 141-177. * ''Occult Sciences and Medicine''. New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. 3, Michael Cook ed.-in-chief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

References

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