Muhammed Amin Andrabi

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Muhammad Amin Andrabi (1940 in Srinagar, Kashmir - 2001 in Srinagar, India) is a member of the prominent Andrabi Sayyed family. His father was a revered sufi shaykh and a religious scholar.

Andrabi was schooled at the Islamia High School, Kashmir's first modern school. He had an early proclivity for languages and learned English, Arabic, Persian and Urdu in school. He earned his doctorate in Urdu from the University of Kashmir, studying under one of South Asia's most eminent 20th-century Urdu scholar, Aal-e-Ahmad Suroor. He was also instructed in Islamic history, law and philosophy by his father, Mir Ahmad.

Andrabi began his career as a teacher in the Islamia College of Science and Commerce in Srinagar where he taught Urdu literature. In 1980 he joined the University of Kashmir as a professor. From the mid-1980s until his death he headed the university's Iqbal Institute, a research center where scholars pursue doctoral studies. There, Andrabi supervised and guided doctoral research in literature, criticism, philosophy, linguitics, history and comparative religion.

He was an authority on Urdu literature and is remembered for his contributions to literary criticism, comparative religion and Islamic philosophy. He authored two books and has been published in several literary journals worldwide.

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Name	Andrabi, Muhammed Amin
Alternative names
Short description	sufi shaykh and a religious scholar
Date of birth	1940
Place of birth	Srinagar, Kashmir
Date of death	2001
Place of death	Srinagar, India

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