Mahmoud K. Muftić

Mahmoud Kamal Muftić
MD, FAIH
Born Ca. 1925/1926
Sarajevo
Died September 1971
London
Residence Bosnia
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
West Germany
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Citizenship Yugoslavia
Croatia
Unknown
Fields Medical microbiology, hypnosis
Institutions
Author abbrev. (botany) Muftic

Mahmoud Kamal Muftić (born ca. 1925/1926 in Sarajevo,[1] died September 1971[2] in London; also spelled Mahmud Kemal or Mahmut Kemal, sometimes known as Mahmoud K.S. Muftić) was a Bosniak medical doctor, scientist, Muslim religious scholar and activist. His scientific work focused on the two distinct fields of medical microbiology and hypnosis, and he also wrote on political and religious issues. He was involved in Croatian émigré politics and CIA-sponsored activities in the intersection of pan-Islamism and anti-communism during the Cold War, and was a key member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a close associate and ally of Said Ramadan. He lived for many years in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq before moving to West Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in the 1960s. He was assassinated in London in 1971.

Career and scholarship

Muftić, a keenly religious[3] Bosnian Muslim, grew up in Sarajevo in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, he worked as a physician and researcher in several countries of the Middle East. He worked in Cairo (AMA Laboratories) and Gaza City in Egypt, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia (Biological Laboratories of Saudi Arabia), and Basra (Royal Hospital), Kufa (Middle Euphrat Hospital) and Nasiriyah (King Faisal Hospital) in Iraq. He participated as a volunteer physician on the Arab side in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He was allegedly at one point accused of being a Russian spy when living in Iraq, and was later described as having ties to several intelligence services.[1]

In 1962 he became a researcher at the Tuberculosis Research Institute in Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He then became a researcher at Schering AG in West Berlin, where he eventually became director of the Department of Medical Microbiology in the late 1960s, and also held a secondary appointment at the Biochemical Laboratory at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.[4] He moved to Geneva in the late 1960s, and alternately lived in London.[1] At the time of his death he was affiliated with the Biochemistry Department at Trinity College, Dublin.

He has published around 40 papers in medical journals. His major research interests were medical microbiology and hypnosis. He was also a co-inventor of several patents held by Schering. He also wrote articles on political issues, including Yugoslav politics and the Middle East conflict, such as Israel's development of a biological warfare program, and on Islamic theology and religious matters. He was also interested in experimental or parapsychological topics; building upon the work of Walter John Kilner and under the sponsorship of the Metaphysical Research Group of the United Kingdom, he published a book on aura phenomena, based on research he carried out in the 1950s on the human energy field with a device utilizing a semiconductor and an electroluminescent panel called an optron.[5]

Muftić discovered and named a species of yeastlike fungus, blastomyces cerolytica.[6][7] His author abbreviation in botany is "Muftic."[8]

He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Hypnosis, an institution founded by his "long time personal and professional friend"[2] William Joseph Bryan, whose work notably found use in psychological warfare during the Cold War. According to Bryan, Muftić was "a true scientist in every way [who] always looked for physical and chemical explanations of psychological problems. He frequently took as his motto Gerard's famous statement, 'there can be no twisted thought without a twisted molecule.'"[2]

Religious and political activity

In the postwar era, he was involved in CIA-sponsored anti-communist and pan-Islamic circles, and was a close associate and ally of Said Ramadan, a major figure of the Muslim Brotherhood and the most important CIA intelligence asset among Muslim leaders in the 1950s and 1960s.[9] He was also highly active in Croatian émigré politics from around 1960 to around 1966;[1] in 1960 he was elected to the executive of the largest Croatian émigré organisation, the Croatian National Resistance, and due to his connections in the Muslim world, he became their foremost campaigner in relation to Muslim countries.[10] He was the Yugoslav delegate to the World Muslim Congress in 1962.[11] In the late 1960s, he became disillusioned with Croatian nationalism over the issue of Croat–Bosniak relations, and left the Croatian émigré political scene, while associating himself more closely with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Death

He was assassinated in London in 1971, when he was found poisoned in a hotel, supposedly because his killers suspected him of being a Mossad agent.

Works

Books
  • Mahmoud K. Muftic: Researches on the Aura Phenomena, Metaphysical Research Group, 1960, second ed. 1970, Hastings, Society of Metaphysicians, ISBN 0-900684-14-3
Articles
  • Muftic MK (1951). L'isolation de microbes cérolytiques. Experientia (= Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences), 7(6):219–220.
  • Muftic MK (1951). [Radical tonsillectomy with diathermocoagulation of the tonsillar arteries]. Les Annales D'oto-laryngologie, 68(8–9):716–721.
  • Muftic MK (1955). Demonstration of fat peroxides in Mycobacteria tuberculosis treated by cerase. Enzymologia. 15;17(4):222-4.
  • Muftic MK, and Loutfi SD (1955). A Case of Large Diverticulum of the Eustachian Tube. Br Med J. Apr 23, 1955; 1(4920): 1010.
  • Muftic MK (1956). Cerase : A wax-decomposing enzyme in experimental tuberculosis. British Journal of Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 356–358.
  • Atia, IM and Muftic, MK (1957). Hypnosis in the psychosomatic investigation of female homosexuality. Brit. J. Med. Hypnot. pp. 41–46.
  • Muftic MK (1957). Mutation of mycobacteria to proactinomyces by radioactive cobalt. Mycopathologia et mycologia applicata, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 121–126.
  • Muftic MK (1957). Isolation properties of the cerase. Enzymologia. 1957 Jan 30;18(1):9–13
  • Muftic MK (1957). Relation between iron content and peroxidase activity of cerase. Enzymologia 18(1):18-21
  • Muftic MK (1957). Mechanism of cerase action. Enzymologia. 30;18(1):14–7
  • Muftic MK (1958). A psychokinetic theory of hypnotism. Brit. J. Med. Hypnot. 10: 11–23.
  • Muftic MK (1958). Mycostatin in Treatment of Otomycoses. Mycoses Volume 1, Issue 5, pp. 156–161.
  • Muftic MK (1958). Prevention of Hemorrhages in E. N. T. Surgery by Interstitial Application of Thromboplastin. AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 67(5):542–545. doi:10.1001/archotol.1958.00730010556007.
  • Muftic MK (1958). Eustachian tube biopsy cannula. The Laryngoscope Volume 68, Issue 2, pp. 131–132.
  • Muftic MK (1958). Advances in the pharmacological study of cerase—A new anti-tuberculous agent. British Journal of Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest, Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 308–312. DOI: 10.1016/S0366-0869(58)80007-6.
  • Muftic MK (1959). Investigation of resistance of mycobacteria to decolorization. Tubercle Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 50–53
  • Muftic MK (1959). Advances in Pathogenesis and Treatment of Otosclerosis. Acta Otolaryngol. 50(1):3–12.
  • Muftic MK (1960). Genus Blastomycoides As A Mykological Entity. Mycoses Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 16–25
  • Muftic MK (1960). The genus Blastomycoides as a mycological entity. Mycopathologia et mycologia applicata, Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 265–277
  • Muftic MK (1960). Treatment of Chronic Otitis Media By Chloromycetin and Streptomycin. Journal of Laryngology & Otology, Vol. 74, Issue 02, pp. 100–105
  • Muftic MK (1961). Studies on cell-wall chemistry of Mycobacteria. Japanese Journal of Tuberculosis 9:11–7.
  • Muftic MK (1962). Isolation and purification of the penicillinase from mycobacteria. Experientia, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp 17–18
  • Muftic MK (1962). Middlebrook-Dubos neutral red test in Mycobacterium tuberculosis treated by cerase. Indian Journal of Medical Sciences, 16:230–236.
  • Muftic MK (1963). Polypeptidyl Tuberculins. Pathologia et Microbiologia 26:494–503. DOI:10.1159/000161403.
  • Muftic MK (1963). The mechanism of mycobacterial pathogenicity. British Journal of Diseases of the Chest, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 1963, pp. 22–29. DOI: 10.1016/S0007-0971(63)80004-2.
  • Muftic MK (1963). Die Klassifizierung der verschiedenen Arten der Gattung Candida mit der „Amid-Reihe“ nach Bönicke. Hefepilze als Krankheitserreger bei Mensch und Tier 1963, pp 9–11
  • Muftic MK (1963). Study of Amide Metabolism in Candida. Pathologia et Microbiologia 1963;26:250–253. DOI:10.1159/000161371
  • Muftic MK (1964). A New Phenol–Hypochlorite Reaction for Ammonia. Nature 201:622–623
  • Muftic MK (1964). N-acetyl-naphthylamine esterase activity as a virulence test in Mycobacteria. Zentralbl Bakt Prasitenk Infektionskrankh Hyg: 353–357.
  • Muftic MK, and Roch-Ramel F (1964). Pharmacological study of a peptide obtained during a tuberculin skin reaction. Arzneimittelforschung. 14:1012–4.
  • Muftic MK, and Tuncman SZ (1964). Quantitative analysis of neutral red test in mycobacteria. British Journal of Diseases of the Chest, Volume 58, Issue 2, pp. 85–89. DOI: 10.1016/S0007-0971(64)80037-1.
  • Muftić, M. (1964). Dr Karlo Marchesi: trideset-godišnji jubilej znanstvenog rada. Hrvatska revija, 14, 51–53.
  • Muftic MK (1969). Characteristic changes in mycobacterium tuberculosis induced by some tensides (surface-active agents). Tubercle, Volume 50, Issue 3, pp. 305–312. DOI: 10.1016/0041-3879(69)90056-7.
  • Muftic MK, and Atia IM (1969). A new induction method: electrohypnosis. Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry & Medicine 1969;16(2):40-6.
  • Muftic MK (1971). Influence of subcutaneous application of trans-3-methyl-2-hexanoic acid on induction of hypnosis. Journal of the American Institute of Hypnosis. 12(3):118–119, 140.
  • Muftic MK (1971). Are the catecholamines precursors of the catatonine? Journal of the American Institute of Hypnosis, 12(1):29–32.
  • Muftic MK (1971). Psychological crusades of the modern time. Nigerian Journal of Islam, 1:2 (1971), pp. 23–28.
Patents

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Branimir Jelić, Političke uspomene i rad Dra Branimira Jelića, p. 412, Izdavač M. Šamija, 1982
  2. 1 2 3 Bryan, William Joseph (1971). "In memoriam: Mahmud K. Muftic". Journal of the American Institute of Hypnosis. 12–13: 196.
  3. ↑ The Islamic Review & Arab Affairs, vol. 57 (1969), p. 178
  4. ↑ The Islamic Review & Arab Affairs, January 1968, p. 2
  5. ↑ Conference Proceedings, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Electrical Research Association, 1978, p. 21
  6. ↑ Muftic, Mahmoud K. S. (1957). "Blastomyces cerolytica (sp. n.) and its relation to Coccidioides". Mycopathologia 8 (1): 18–26. doi:10.1007/BF02053115.
  7. ↑ Blastomyces cerolytica, MycoBank
  8. ↑ Index of Botanists, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries
  9. ↑ Ian Johnson, A Mosque in Munich, p. 163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, ISBN 0547488688
  10. ↑ Bošnjačka ideja, p. 104
  11. ↑ "Intellektuelle und Gelehrte im Kalten Krieg," in Reinhard Schulze, Islamischer Internationalismus im 20. Jahrhundert, p. 164, BRILL, 1990, ISBN 9004082867
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