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Muhammad Hamidullah, (February 9, 1908 - Dccember 17, 2002) D. Phil., D. Litt., HI, was a Muliaddith, Faqih, scholar of Islamic law and an academic author with over 450 books cited in WorldCat.org, the world's largest bibliographic database. He earned two doctorates; he received his first doctorate (1932) from Bonn University, Germany and later his Doctor of Letters (1934) from Sorbonne University, France. A prolific writer, his extensive works on Islamic Science, History and Culture have been published in several languages and many thousands of articles in learned journals. His scholarship is regarded by many as unparalleled in the last century. A polymath, lit was fluent in 22 lan-guages including Urdu (his mother tongue), Persian, Arabic, French, English, German, Turkish etc. He learned Thai at the age of 84.