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This is what the website dedicated to Abdul Hai Habibi says. It does not sow he ever attained a degree in anything or was qualified as a scholar of anything.Very strange.
Education
Like other members of his family Habibi was absorbed in his studies from an early age. His education started in the mosques of Kandahar city. Afghanistan attained its independence from Britain in 1919 and it was during this period that schools were established in different parts of the country. Habibi joined the Shalamar primary school and at the age of 11 and at 15 was accepted as a teacher in the same primary school in Kandahar.
Beside his learning experience at school Habibi studied books which were left behind by his father. His father’s library contained collections of Seraj-al-Akhbar of Mahmud Tarzi and Calcutta’s Hub-ul-Mutayen newspaper.
From his youth he avidly studied the Masnavi (spiritual poetry) of Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi, the divan of Khwaja Hafez and Saadi’s collection of poems, Gulistan and Bostan. During this time he took lessons in mathematics, Islamic studies, grammar, logic and the style of poetry writing from his elder cousin, Maulawi Abdul Wasa’e. His cousin was a keen scholar and versatile writer in his own right and a fiery orator. He participated in the writing of laws for the government of the time. When Habibullah, famous as Bacha-e Saqao (son of water carrier), took over the reigns of government in 1929, he executed Abdul Wasa’e by blowing him with a cannon. The late Maulawi Abdul Wasa’e had a short and precise method of teaching and within one year he was able to train Habibi in various subjects.
Habibi’s other teacher was Maulawi Abulwafa Kandahari, who taught at the Nezamia Madrassa of Dakan in India. This learned personality lived in the Habibi family mosque at the time. He was also a erudite and Habibi learned literary and writing skills from this cultured teacher.
At the time when Habibi was studying Euclidean sciences and Socrate’s philosophy he was also engaged in the study of sciences such as geography, biology, mathematics and physics. He also avidly read the Kawa, Iran Shahr, Armaghan and Al-Hellal literary journals.
Habibi continued with his studies when he started working and in his early career he learned English and Urdu and studied books in these languages. He mastered how to conduct historical research from Cambridge History of India, and by studying the works of Indian and Egyptian scholars such as Jarji Zaidan, Shebli Neghmani and Sayed Suleiman Nadwi, the Kawa journal of Berlin and the beneficial works of Mohammad Qazwini.
Bestowed with intelligence, a keen student of arts and sciences, and always on the lookout for knowledge, Abdul Hai adopted Habibi as his family name, which means progeny of Habibi and is linked to the name of his great grandfather, Habibullah Kandahari. Habibi became a versatile writer and keen scholar and wrote many books and several hundred articles and was considered an eminent researcher in the region.
Like other members of his family Habibi was absorbed in his studies from an early age. His education started in the mosques of Kandahar city. Afghanistan attained its independence from Britain in 1919 and it was during this period that schools were established in different parts of the country. Habibi joined the Shalamar primary school and at the age of 11 and at 15 was accepted as a teacher in the same primary school in Kandahar.
Beside his learning experience at school Habibi studied books which were left behind by his father. His father’s library contained collections of Seraj-al-Akhbar of Mahmud Tarzi and Calcutta’s Hub-ul-Mutayen newspaper.
From his youth he avidly studied the Masnavi (spiritual poetry) of Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi, the divan of Khwaja Hafez and Saadi’s collection of poems, Gulistan and Bostan. During this time he took lessons in mathematics, Islamic studies, grammar, logic and the style of poetry writing from his elder cousin, Maulawi Abdul Wasa’e. His cousin was a keen scholar and versatile writer in his own right and a fiery orator. He participated in the writing of laws for the government of the time. When Habibullah, famous as Bacha-e Saqao (son of water carrier), took over the reigns of government in 1929, he executed Abdul Wasa’e by blowing him with a cannon. The late Maulawi Abdul Wasa’e had a short and precise method of teaching and within one year he was able to train Habibi in various subjects.
Habibi’s other teacher was Maulawi Abulwafa Kandahari, who taught at the Nezamia Madrassa of Dakan in India. This learned personality lived in the Habibi family mosque at the time. He was also a erudite and Habibi learned literary and writing skills from this cultured teacher.
At the time when Habibi was studying Euclidean sciences and Socrate’s philosophy he was also engaged in the study of sciences such as geography, biology, mathematics and physics. He also avidly read the Kawa, Iran Shahr, Armaghan and Al-Hellal literary journals.
Habibi continued with his studies when he started working and in his early career he learned English and Urdu and studied books in these languages. He mastered how to conduct historical research from Cambridge History of India, and by studying the works of Indian and Egyptian scholars such as Jarji Zaidan, Shebli Neghmani and Sayed Suleiman Nadwi, the Kawa journal of Berlin and the beneficial works of Mohammad Qazwini.
Bestowed with intelligence, a keen student of arts and sciences, and always on the lookout for knowledge, Abdul Hai adopted Habibi as his family name, which means progeny of Habibi and is linked to the name of his great grandfather, Habibullah Kandahari. Habibi became a versatile writer and keen scholar and wrote many books and several hundred articles and was considered an eminent researcher in the region.
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