Background
Fyzee was born on 10 April 1899 to the Tyabji-Fyzee family of Sulaymani Ismaili Bohra in the Matheran town of Maharashtra.
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Fyzee was born on 10 April 1899 to the Tyabji-Fyzee family of Sulaymani Ismaili Bohra in the Matheran town of Maharashtra.
He took his initial education in Mumbai and completed his Bachelor of Laws degree at Saint Xavier"s College, Mumbai. In 1922 he went to England and studied at Street John"s College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he also studied Arabic and Persian under eminent orientalist Reynold A. Nicholson.
He also served as India"s first ambassador to Egypt from 1949 to 1952, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu and Kashmir from 1957 to 1960. His best-known literary work is Outlines of Muhammadan law, which states that "in order to understand Islamic law, one has to be familiar with historic and cultural background of the law". In 1925, at the age of 26, he became a barrister-at-law and started his career as an advocate in the Bombay High Court from 1926 to 1938.
From 1938 to 1947, Fyzee was Principal and Perry Professor of Jurisprudence in Government Law College, Mumbai.
After the partition of India, he remained in that country and served as the first Indian ambassador to Egypt from 1949 to 1951. He also held the position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu and Kashmir from 1957 to 1960.
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In 1952 he was appointed as a member of the Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi. In 1956 Fyzee was elected as a corresponding member of the Arab Academy of Damascus. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society.
He was a member of the Indian delegation to the Third General Conference of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, held in Beirut in November 1948.