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Mahmoud Kamal Muftić (born ca. 1925/1926 in Sarajevo,〔Branimir Jelić, ''Političke uspomene i rad Dra Branimira Jelića'', p. 412, Izdavač M. Šamija, 1982〕 died September 1971 in London; also spelled ''Mahmud Kemal'' or ''Mahmut Kemal'', sometimes known as ''Mahmoud K.S. Muftić'') was a Bosniak medical doctor, scientist and scholar. His scientific work focused on the two distinct fields of 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 of Said Ramadan. He was assassinated in London in 1971. ==Career and scholarship== Muftić, a 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 in Cairo and Gaza City in Egypt and at the Royal Hospital in Basra, at the Middle Euphrat Hospital in Kufa, and at King Faisal Hospital in Nasiriyah in Iraq. He participated as a volunteer 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.〔 In 1962 he became a researcher at the Tuberculosis Research Institute (currently the Research Center Borstel) 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, and also held a secondary appointment at the Biochemical Laboratory at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.〔''The Islamic Review & Arab Affairs'', January 1968, p. 2〕 He moved to Geneva in the late 1960s. 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 microbiology and hypnosis. He was also a co-inventor of several patents held by Schering. He also wrote articles on political issues including Balkan 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 esoterical and parapsychological topics and 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.〔Conference Proceedings, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Electrical Research Association, 1978, p. 21〕 Muftić discovered and named a species of yeastlike fungus, ''blastomyces cerolytica''.〔(Blastomyces cerolytica ), MycoBank〕 He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Hypnosis, an institution founded by his "long time personal and professional friend"〔 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 () 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.'"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahmoud K. Muftić」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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