Born in Hazara region of North Western Pakistan in 1953, M. Ashraf Adeel is a philosopher, poet, playwright and a novelist. He was educated in his native region at Gandhian and Baffa schools, Islamia College Peshawar, University of Peshawar, and, University of Hawaii from where he obtained his PhD with distinction under the supervision of famous logician Irving M. Copi.

Adeel's philosophical interests include contemporary philosophy of language and science as well as modern Islamic thought. His recent book Epistemology of the Quran: Elements of a Virtue Approach to Knowledge and Understanding came out from Springer in 2019. This book is the first systematic book on the virtue epistemology of the Quran and covers all epistemic contexts of the Quran. His book on language and underdetermination in Quine and Davidson has been published under the title: How Do We Deal with Different World Views If They Are Based on The Same Evidence: The Philosophical Problem of Underdetermination in Quine and Davidson. The book is a sustained defense of underdetemination and possibility of alternative conceptual schemes or world views both in science and in general. 

Adeel's Urdu poetry has been publishing in the leading literary journals for over 30 years now. His anthologies Hawa kay Hath khaali Hain and Sumundar Raqs Karta Hay have been published by Mithaal Publications, Faisal abad, Pakistan. His long poem "Prindon ki Hijrat" was written during the tragic events of Bosnia Herzegovina.

Plays written by Adeel in Urdu and Hindko have been produced and telecast by Pakistan Television. Shakhsaar, Paharoan kay Dukh, and Jagday Khab are particularly worth mentioning.

This novel Love Across Wars, Adeel’s first, grapples with the tragic gulf created between cultures by the catastrophic events of 9/11.

Currently Professor and Chair of Philosophy Department at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Adeel has held a Professorship in Philosophy at University of Peshawar and worked as the founding Vice-Chancellor of Hazara University in Pakistan. He was a senior Visiting Fellow at Linacre College Oxford in 1999 and has also served as President of Pakistan's Philosophical Congress (the country's premier association of philosophers) as well as Federation of all Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Associations.