- Born in Mohalla Feelkhana in the old town of Hyderabad, State of Hyderabad.The youngest child in a family of three brothers and five sisters. Father, Abu Muhammad Khalilullah, was Madadgar Mu’tamid Malguzari (Assistant Revenue Secretary).
- 1909-13 Taught at home.
- 1913-28 Formal Islamic education: Maulvi Kamil and Darse Nizami from Dar-al-‘Uloom, Hyderabad.
Mother, Bibi Sultan, dies, 1928. - 1930 MA and LLB degrees from Osmania University in International Law.
- 1933 D Phil from University of Bonn, Germany. Also European correspondent for the Quarterly Journal Islamic Culture.
- 1935 D Litt from Sorbonne, Paris.
First publication in German: Die Neutralitat in is/amischen Volkerrecht. - 1936 Father dies a few months before his return from Paris.
- 1936-46 Joins faculty of International Law, at Osmania University, rising to professorship.
- 1948 Travels to Paris as Constitutional Adviser to the Hyderabad state delegation to the UN Security Council; decides not to return home, and stays in Paris after the State is invaded and occupied by India.
- 1948-67 Founds the Hyderabad Liberation Society to win the freedom of Hyderabad.
- 1949-50 Joins the Board of Talimat-i-lslamia, Pakistan, established to advise the Pakistan Constituent Assembly but returns to Paris within a year.
- 1954-78 Research Fellow at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and Visiting Professor, at Turkish and Malaysian Universities.
- 1985 Awarded Pakistan’s International Hijrah Award; he accepts the Award but donates the million rupees cash award to the Islamic Research Institute,
Islamabad. - 1988 Illness leads to nearly total loss of hearing.
- 1992 Learns a new language, Thai, at the age of 84.
- January 1996 Hospitalised [in Paris] for hypothermia.
- October 1996 Arrives in Florida, USA for medical treatment.
- December 2002 Died on the 17th,
(Source: Sadida Athaullah in Islamic Horizon, Plainfield, IN, USA, July- August 1999, and Rashid Shakeeb in Mujalla Osmania Quarterly, Karachi, April-June 1997).
