Deobandi movement
Deobandi is a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam, adhering to the Hanafi school of law,
formed in the late 19th century around the Darul Uloom Madrassa in Deoband, India, from which the name derives,
by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi ...
, which originated in Deoband, India in the mid-19th century. The movement emphasizes a strict adherence to
Islamic law
Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the ...
and traditional Islamic scholarship, particularly in the areas of hadith and fiqh.
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Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi
Abdul Hayy Lucknawi Firangi Mahali (1264 - 1304 A.H./1848 - 1886 C.E) was an Indian Islamic scholar of Hanafi school of Islamic thought.
Lineage
Abdul Hayy was born in Banda, India, in 1847. He was a descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari.
Early ...
Abdul Haq Akorwi
Abdul Haq ( ur, , ps, عبدالحق; 11 January 19127 September 1988) of Akora Khattak, Pakistan, sometimes referred to as Abdul Haq Akorwi was a Pashtun Islamic scholar and the founder, chancellor, and Shaykh al-Hadith of the Islamic se ...
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Abdul Haq Azmi
Abdul Haq Azmi (1928 – 30 December 2016) was an Indian Muslim scholar who was a senior professor of hadith at the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Mau and Darul Uloom Deoband. His students included Mahmood Madani, Mohamm ...
Anwar Shah Kashmiri
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Anwar-ul-Haq Haqqani
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Anzar Shah Kashmiri
Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927-2008) was an Indian Islamic scholar who established the Jamia Imam Anwar Shah and co-founded the Darul Uloom Waqf in Deoband.
Shah was an alumnus of the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was youngest son of Hanafi scholar An ...
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Abdul Hai Arifi
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Abdul Wahid Bengali
ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Bengālī ( bn, আব্দুল ওয়াহেদ বাঙ্গালী; c. 1850—1905) was a 19th-century Muslim theologian, teacher and social reformer. He was one of the initiators of the Deobandi movement into Beng ...
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Athar Ali Bengali
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Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi
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Abdul Ghani Azhari
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Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani
Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani (also written as Azizur Rahman Usmani) (died 1928) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as first Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband. He is best known for his ''Fatawa Darul Uloom Deoband''. His brother was Shabbir ...
Abdur Rahman Chatgami
Abdur Rahman Chatgami ( bn, আব্দুর রহমান চাটগামী; 1920–2015), also known as Faqihul Millat, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school. He was born in Imam Nagar, Fatikchhari, Chittagong, in ...
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Abdus Salam Chatgami
Abdus Salam Chatgami ( bn, আব্দুস সালাম চাটগামী, ur, ; 1943 – 8 September 2021) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, educator, writer and researcher. He was considered one of the prominent Islamic scholars o ...
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Abdul Haleem Chishti
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Abdul Jalil Choudhury
ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Aṣghar Choudhury al-Badarfūrī ( ar, عبد الجليل بن أصغر تشودهري البدرفوري; 19 December 1989), or simply Abdul Jalil Choudhury Badarpuri ( bn, আব্দুল জলিল চৌধুরী ...
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Abdul Majid Daryabadi
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Abdul Matin Chowdhury
Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1 May 1921 – 24 June 1981) was a Bangladeshi academic and physicist. He served as the 14th Vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
Education
Chowdhury passed entrance examination from Arunchandra High School in No ...
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Abdul Rashid Ghazi
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Abdul Ghafoor Haideri
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Abdul Malek Halim
Maulana Abdul Malek Halim ( bn, আল্লামা আব্দুল মালেক হালিম) is a prominent Islamic scholar of Bangladesh and ''Nayeb-e Ameer'' of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh. Abdul Malek Halim is the pioneer of ''Qawm ...
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Abdul Salam Hanafi
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Azizul Haq
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Early life and educa ...
A F M Khalid Hossain
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Asrarul Haq Qasmi
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Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi
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Abdul Hamid Madarshahi
Fakhr al-Islām ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Rustam ʿAlī al-Madārshāhī ( ar, فخر الإسلام عبد الحميد بن رستم علي المدارشاهي; 1869–31 March 1920), commonly known as Abdul Hamid Madarshahi ( bn, আব্দ ...
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Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi
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Abdul Majeed Ludhianvi
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Abdul Momin Imambari
Abdul Momin Shaykh-e-Imambari ( bn, আব্দুল মোমিন শায়খে ইমামবাড়ী; 1930 – 8 April 2020) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, teacher and politician. He was a former president of Jamiat Ulema-e-I ...
Abdul Rauf Azhar
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Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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Abdur Razzaq Iskander
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Abu Taher Misbah
Abū Ṭāher ibn Miṣbāḥ al-Ḥaqq al-Kumillāʾī ( ar, أبو طاهر بن مصباح الحق الكملائي; born 6 March 1956), commonly known as Abu Taher Misbah bn, আবু তাহের মিসবাহ) or Adib Huzur ( bn, ...
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Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq
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Early life
Riyadh ul Haq was born in the village of Nani Naroli, Gujarat, India in 1971 ...
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Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
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Abul Hasan Jashori
Abul Hasan Jashori ( bn, আবুল হাসান যশোরী; 1918 – 8 July 1993) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, author, teacher and freedom fighter. He was the founding principal and Shaykh al-Hadith of the Jamia Eza ...
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Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad
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Ahmed Ali Lahori
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Biography
Wasaya born in 1945 to Malik Muhammad Ramzan in Garwan, Bahawalpur. H ...
Arshad Madani
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Ashraf Ali Thanwi
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Cassim Sema
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Deen Muhammad Khan
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Ebrahim Desai
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Farid Uddin Masood
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Fazlul Haque Amini
Faḍl al-Ḥaqq ibn Wājid ad-Dīn al-Amīnī ( ar, فضل الحق بن واجد الدين الأميني; 194512 December 2012), or simply Fazlul Hoque Amini ( bn, ফজলুল হক আমিনী) was an Islamic scholar and politician ...
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Fazlur Rahman Usmani
Fazlur Rahmān Usmāni (1831 – 15 June 1907) was an Indian Muslim scholar and poet who co-founded the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was father of the scholars, Aziz-ur-Rahman Usmani and Shabbir Ahmad Usmani. His grandson Atiqur Rahman Usmani was th ...
Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri
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Ghulam Muhammad Din Puri
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Ghulam Nabi Kashmiri
Ghulam Nabi Kashmiri (2 July 1965 – 7 November 2019) was a Kashmir, Kashmiri Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the senior professor of hadith at Darul Uloom Waqf. He also taught hadith at Jamia Ziya al-Uloom and Jamiat al-Tayyibat in Poo ...
Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi
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Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi
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Habibullah Qurayshi
Ḥabībullāh Qurayshī ( bn, হাবিবুল্লাহ কুরাইশি; 1865 – 1943) was a Bengali Islamic scholar and educationist of the Deobandi movement. He was the founding director-general of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum M ...
Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad
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Hafiz Patel
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Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi
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Haji Yunus
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Member of Legislative Assembly (202 ...
Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani
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Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi
Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi (1909 – 16 October 1992) was an Indian Muslim scholar, author and a journalist, who co-founded the Nadwatul Musannifeen and served as the editor of bi-weekly newspaper Madina. He was the son of Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ans ...
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Haq Nawaz Jhangvi
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi ( ur, حق نواز جھنگوی, ''Ḥaq Nawāz Jhangvī''; 1952 – 23 February 1990) was a Pakistani cleric who founded the Anjumane Sipahe Sahaba on 6 September 1986.
Biography
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was born in 1952 i ...
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Harun Babunagari
Harun Babunagari (; 1902–1986; often referred to as Buzurgo Saheb) was a Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, Sufism, Sufi and an exegete of the Quran. He was the founder and first Principal of Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Ba ...
Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi
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Hussain Ahmed Madani
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Ibrahim Chatuli
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Ibrahim Mogra
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Early life
Mogra was born in 1965 into a family of Gujarati Indian origin and emigrated to the UK at the age of 18 to study and s ...
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Ibrahim Ujani
Muhammad Ibrahim of Ujani ( bn, মুহম্মদ ইব্রাহীম উজানী; 1863 – 1943) was a Bengali Deobandi scholar and founder of the Jamia Islamia Ibrahimia. He was a senior disciple of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, and his kh ...
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Ijteba Nadwi
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Nadwi was an alumnus of Darul Uloom ...
Imamuddin Punjabi
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Family background
Imāmuddīn Punjabi's predecessors hailed from t ...
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Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi
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Inamul Hasan was born on 20 February ...
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Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi
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Born in 1964 to ...
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Ishaq Sambhali
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Ismail Ahmed Cachalia
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Izaz Ali Amrohi
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Izharul Islam Chowdhury
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Jalaluddin Haqqani
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Juma Khan
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Juma Khan was an illiterate provincial drug smuggler from southwestern Afghanistan in the 1990s. He suddenly rose to national pro ...
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Junaid Babunagari
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Kaleem Siddiqui
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Khair Muhammad Jalandhari
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Khalid Saifullah Rahmani
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Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri
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Khawaja Khan Muhammad
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Khawaja Khan Muhammad was born in 1920 in Mianwali District to ...
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Kifayatullah Dehlawi
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Mahfuzul Haque
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Mahmood Ahmed Ghazi
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Mahmud Deobandi
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Biography
Mahmud was a fellow of Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi, the ...
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Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
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Malik Ishaq
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Mamunul Haque
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Manazir Ahsan Gilani
Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1 October 1892 – 5 June 1956) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar and former Dean of The Faculty of Theology in Osmania University. He wrote ''Tadwin-e-Hadith'', ''Muqaddama Tadwin-e-Fiqh'' and ''Sawanih Qasmi''. Muhammad ...
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Manzoor Mengal
Manzoor Ahmad Mengal (born 1973), is a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar and a supporter of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F).
Education and career
Mengal received his early education from a government school. Then in 1973 he joined the madrassa in hi ...
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Manzoor Nomani
Muḥammad Manz̤oor Nomānī ( 15 December 1905 – 4 May 1997) was an Indian Islamic scholar. Prominent among his written works are ''Maariful Hadith'', ''Islam Kya Hai?'', and ''Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution''.
He graduated from Darul ...
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Maqsudullah
Maqṣūd Ullāh ibn Thanāʾ Ullāh ibn Ḥijr Ullāh al-Ghāzī ( ar, مقصود الله بن ثناء الله بن حجر الله الغازي; 1883–1961), or simply Maqsudullah ( bn, মকসুদুল্লাহ), was a Bengali Deo ...
Masihullah Khan
Muhammad Masihullah Khan Sherwani Jalalabadi ( ur, , ''Muḥammad Masīhu’llāh Khān Shīrwānī Jalāl ābādī''; 1911/1912 – 12 November 1992) was an Indian Deobandi Islamic scholar known as an authority in Sufism. He ...
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Masood Azhar
Mohammad Masood Azhar Alvi is a radical Islamist and terrorist, being the founder and leader of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, active mainly in the Pakistani-administered portion of the Kashmir region. His actions a ...
Mazhar Nanautawi
Muḥammad Mazhar Nanautawi (1821–1885) was an Indian Muslim scholar and a freedom struggle activist who played a crucial role in the development Mazahir Uloom. He participated in the Battle of Shamli.
Biography
Muḥammad Mazhar was born in ...
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Minnatullah Rahmani
Minnatullah Rahmani (7 April 1913 – 20 March 1991) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as the first General Secretary of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama and Darul Uloom Deoband, and ...
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Mizanur Rahman Sayed
Mizanur Rahman Sayed ( bn, মিজানুর রহমান সাঈদ) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar. He was one of the five scholars selected by Islamic Foundation Bangladesh as Fatwa interpreters.
Education
Rahman attended Al-Jamia ...
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Moavia Azam Tariq
Mawlānā Moavia Azam Tariq ( ur, ) is a Pakistani far-right politician who has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since August 2018.
Early life
Hw was born on 28 August 1983 in Chichawatni and in 2006, He obtained the ...
Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi
Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi Sambhali is an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar who established Al-Noor Public School, Sambhal. He is an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband, Delhi University and the Jamia Millia Islamia. He has authored ''Dars-e-Hadith'', ''Dars-e ...
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Mufti Abdul Razzaq
Mufti Abdul Razzaq (also known as Abdul Razzaque Khan; 13 August 1925 – 26 May 2021) was an Indian Muslim scholar, mufti and an activist of the Indian independence movement, who served as the ninth general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. ...
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Mufti Mehmood
Mufti Mehmood ( ur, ; 1919–1980) was a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who was one of the founding members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI).Mufti Muhammad Naeem
Mufti Muhammad Naeem (1958 – 20 June 2020) was a Pakistani cleric and Islamic scholar who served as Chancellor of Jamia Binoria.
Biography Family background
His paternal family came from Surat in Indian Gujarat. His grandfather was born a P ...
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Muhammad Abdul Wahhab
Haji Muhammad Abdul Wahhab ( ur, , ''Ḥājī Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Wahhāb'' (1 January 1923 – 18 November 2018) was an Islamic preacher and the emir of Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan.
Early years and education
Muhammad Abdul Wahhab was born i ...
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Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi
Mawlānā Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi ( ur, – 17 October 1998) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar who served as Chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee and as the first Imam of Lal Masjid, and founded Faridia University and Jamia Hafsa.
He Grad ...
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Muhammad Adil Khan
Muḥammad Adil Khan (or Adil Khān; 195710 October 2020) was a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar who served as the rector of Jamia Farooqia. He was seen as an influential scholar in Pakistan.
Khan was an alumnus of the Jamia Farooqia and the Uni ...
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Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi
Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi ( ur, ) is the current Sarparast-e-Aala of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at (ASWJ), a proscribed group in Pakistan. Ludhianvi became the head of ASWJ (then knows as Sipah-e Sahaba) upon the death of the previous chief, Ali ...
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Muhammad Ali Jalandhari
Muhammad Ali Jalandhari (1895 - 21 April 1971) was a prominent Ahrari leader, Islamic scholar. He served as president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Punjab during Khatm-e-Nubuwwat movement in 1953. He was also served Emir and General secretary of Aa ...
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Muhammad Ali Mungeri
Muḥammad Ali Mungeri (28 July 1846 – 13 September 1927) was an Indian Muslim scholar who was the founder Nadwatul Ulama and first chancellor of its Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Darul Uloom, a major Islamic seminary in Lucknow. He extensively ...
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Muhammad Faizullah
Muḥammad Fayḍ Allāh ibn Hidāyat ʿAlī al-Islāmābādī ( ar, محمد فيض الله بن هداية علي الإسلام آبادي, 1890–1976), popularly known as Mufti Faizullah ( bn, মুফতি ফয়জুল্লাহ) ...
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Muhammad Hanif Jalandhari
Muhammad Hanif Jalandhari (born; 8 November 1963) (مولانا محمد حنیف جالندھری) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar, incumbent General Secretary of Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan the rector of Jamia Khairul Madaris since 19 ...
Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi
Muḥammad Idrīs ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī ( ur, ; 20 August 189928 July 1974) was a Deobandi Islamic scholar particularly known as a scholar of hadith and tafsir (exegesis of the Qur'an). He held the post of Sha ...
Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari
Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (1884 – 11 January 1946) ( ur, ), (10 March 1884 – 11 January 1946) was a leader and a political activist of the Indian independence movement. He was a grandson of Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, one of the foun ...
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Muhammad Miyan Deobandi
Muhammad Miyan Deobandi (4 October 1903 - 24 October 1975) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar, academic, historian, freedom struggle activist, who served as the fifth general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He wrote books such as ''Ase ...
Muhammad Mustafa Azmi
Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami (1930 – 20 December 2017) was an Indian-born Saudi Arabian contemporary hadith scholar best known for his critical investigation of the theories of fellow Islamic scholars Ignác Goldziher, David Margoliouth, and ...
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Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi
Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (1832 – 15 April 1880) () was an Indian Sunni Hanafi Maturidi Islamic Scholar
In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; fe ...
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Muhammad Rafi Usmani
Muhammad Rafi Usmani ( ur, محمد رفیع عثمانی; 21 July 1936 – 18 November 2022) was a Pakistani Muslim scholar, jurist and author who served as the President of Darul Uloom Karachi. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband, Univer ...
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Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi
Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi (born 10 May 1965) is an Indian Muslim scholar and preacher. He is the great-grandson of the Tablighi Jamat founder Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi. He heads one faction of the Tablighi Jamat.
Early life
Saad Kandhlawi was b ...
Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri
Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri (died 1948) was an Indian Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the fifth Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband.
Biography
Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri was born in Puraini, Bhagalpur, in a Muslim family that claimed desc ...
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Muhammad Salim Qasmi
Muhammad Salim Qasmi Siddiqi (8 January 1926 — 14 April 2018) was an Indian Muslim scholar who co-founded the Darul Uloom Waqf in Deoband and served as its first rector. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. He received the fourth Shah Wa ...
Muhammad Shafi Deobandi
Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī ( ur, ; ar, محمد شفيع بن محمد ياسين العثماني الديوبندي, ''Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn al-‘Uthmānī ad-Diyūbandī''; ...
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Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi
Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi Siddiqi is an Indian people, Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and current rector of Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband.
Biography
Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi was born on 26 September 1954 into the Siddiqi family of Nanauta. His father Muhamma ...
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Muhammad Taqi Amini
Muhammad Taqi Amīni ( 5 May 1926 – 21 January 1991) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, Urdu author and the dean of Theology faculty of Aligarh Muslim University. He is known for his works on Islamic jurisprudence, and his book ' ...
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Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi
Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi (known as Qari Muhammad Tayyib) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar who served as Vice Chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband for more than half a century. He was grandson of Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, the founder of the Darul ...
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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance ...
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Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri
Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri (2 October 1937 – 11 July 2017) was an Indian people, Indian Islamic hadith scholar who served as the senior professor of hadith at the Mazahir Uloom in Saharanpur. He was one of the senior students and disciples of Mu ...
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Muhammadullah Hafezzi
Muḥammadullāh ibn Idrīs ibn Akram ad-Dīn al-Miyānjī ( ar, محمد الله بن إدريس بن أكرم الدين الميانجي; 1895 - 6 May 1987), commonly known as Hafezzī Huzūr ( ar, حافظجي حضور, bn, হাফেজ ...
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