Atiq Ullah or Atiqullah (

Srinagar Srinagar (English: , ) is the largest city and the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It lies in the Kashmir Valley on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus, and Dal and Anchar lakes. The city is known for its natu ...

1291-1381H, 1872-1962 CE) was acting

Mirwaiz Mirwaiz ( ur, , from ''mir'', chief and ''waiz'', preacher) is a hereditary institution of head priests that is unique to the Kashmir Valley. The traditional role of mirwaizes is to provide religious education in the shrines and mosques. Over time, ...

Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

during the 1950s. His nephew,

Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah Mirwaiz Muhammad Yusuf Shah (19 February 1894 – 12 December 1968) was a mirwaiz of Kashmir. He also served as a President of Azad Kashmir. Early life Yusuf Shah was born on 19 February 1894 (13 Shaban 1311 Hijri) at Rajauri kadal to Ghulam ...

, was the official

mirwaiz Mirwaiz ( ur, , from ''mir'', chief and ''waiz'', preacher) is a hereditary institution of head priests that is unique to the Kashmir Valley. The traditional role of mirwaizes is to provide religious education in the shrines and mosques. Over time, ...

, but had been exiled away to Pakistan by the Indian government during the

partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the Partition (politics), change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: ...

. His brother Ahmed Ullah or Ahmadullah of Jama Masjid was also a traditionalist Muslim leader. They were known for opposition to the Ahmadiya Movement.Muslim Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, ''Religious Trends in Kashmir in Modern Times'' (1997), p. 26: "Thus Mirwaiz of Kashmir, his brother Maulavi Atiqullah and Mirza Ghulam Mustafa and their close associates took an attitude of animosity against Ahmadiya Movement and pronounced them to be outside the pale of Islam."

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