KARACHI, Oct 18: Dr Yusuf Abbas Hashmi, former dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Karachi and teacher of Shariah law to LLM classes at SM Law College, died on Friday. He was 82.

Born in Shikwabad in 1921, Dr Hashmi was educated at Aligarh. He earned his PhD from Hamburg University in Germany and did his postdoctorate research at Harvard University (US) in Islamic studies. He enjoyed DAAD and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung scholarship. He read a paper at the first world conference on Muslim education held at Makkah and attended the 2nd Islamic Universities at Rabat in 1976 besides other conferences on Islam in the United States, Canada and India.

Dr Hashmi’s publications include “Haj and Umrah”, “Kitabur Rasul”, “International implications of Hudaibiyah”, “Successors of Mahmud Ghazna”, “Muhammad the Ummi Nabi” and “Western ethical norms and Quranic responses”. Four PhD students received their degrees under his guidance.

Dr Hashmi is survived by two sons and a daughter.