Hakim Abdul Hameed

Hakim Abdul Hameed (14 September 1908 – 22 July 1999) was an Indian physician of the traditional Unani system of medicine, the founder and chief trustee of Hamdard Laboratories, and the founder chancellor of Jamia Hamdard. ^{1 2} He also served as chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University from 1996 to 1999, and was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1965 and the Padma Bhushan in 1992. ¹ The Urdu article confirms his years, his Delhi birth and his Hamdard roles. ³ No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him, so this entry rests on the English and Urdu articles and Wikidata.

He was born in Delhi, in British India. ¹ The English article records that his ancestors came from Kashgar, in what is now Xinjiang, China, to the Indian subcontinent in the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II; this is family background, recorded as the article gives it. ¹ He was the elder brother of Hakeem Muhammad Saeed, who later led Hamdard in Pakistan. ¹

He was the founder and chief trustee of Hamdard Laboratories, the Unani pharmaceutical house. ¹ To carry his philanthropic work forward he established the Hamdard Charitable Trust in 1948 and the Hamdard National Foundation in 1964. ¹ He established the Majeedia Hospital, whose two successors today are the Hakeem Abdul Hameed Centenary Hospital for modern medicine and the Majeedia Hospital for Unani medicine. ¹

In education he was instrumental in establishing Jamia Hamdard, whose founder chancellor he became, along with the Hamdard Education Society, the Hamdard Study Circle, Hamdard Public School in New Delhi (established in 1993), the Hamdard Institute of Historical Research, the Ghalib Academy, a Centre for South Asian Studies, and a Business and Employment Bureau. ¹ The Urdu article likewise describes him as Jamia Hamdard's founder chancellor; it describes his Aligarh Muslim University office as vice-chancellor, where the English article gives chancellor from 1996 to 1999, and the English reading is followed here. ^{3 1}

The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian award, in 1965, and the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest, in 1992. ¹ He received the Avicenna Award in 1983, and in 2000, after his death, the IRCICA Award for patronage in the preservation of cultural heritage and the promotion of scholarship. ¹

He died on 22 July 1999; the English article's lead and Wikidata agree on the date, while the article's infobox template carries inconsistent parameters, a conflict the museum's data records openly. ^{1 2} No consulted source names a religion or school for him, and the museum records his affiliation as unknown.