Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi (13 September 1950 – 26 September 2010) was a Pakistani

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and

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. He was a

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at the

International Islamic University, Islamabad , motto_lang = Arabic , mottoeng = "All those endowed with knowledge have the All-Knowing above them" , established = , closed = , type = Public , affiliation = ...

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at the

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and Federal Minister for Religious Affairs in

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. He completed his

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at the age of 16 and later obtained a PhD in Islamic Studies from Punjab University. He was fluent in Urdu, English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and French. He authored numerous works in Urdu and English, and translated Persian poetry ''Payam-e-Mashriq'' of

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into Arabic.

Birth and education

Ghazi was born on 13 September 1950 in

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. His father Muhammad Ahmad Farooqui was a disciple of

Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi Muḥammad Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Yaḥyá Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī Sahāranpūrī Muhājir Madanī (''Muḥammad Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Yaḥyá aṣ-Ṣiddīqī al-Kāndahlawī as-Sahāranfūrī al-Madanī''; 2 February 189824 May 1982) ...

whilst his mother was niece of Izharul Hasan Kandhlawi. Ghazi started memorizing al-Qur’ân from the madrasa of Mawlâna Siddĭq Ahmad, during stay with his (maternal) grandmother, and completed the Hifz (memorization) after migration to Karachi, Pakistan in 1954 from the madrasah of Qâri Waqa-Allah Panipati, at the age of eight years. He started

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from

Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia ( ur, , ''Jāmi‘ah ‘Ulūm-i Islāmīyah'' / , ''Jāmi‘atul-‘Ulūmul-Islāmīyah'') is an Islamic University in Banoori Town, Karachi, Pakistan. The university continues the tradition of the Darul Uloom system i ...

, Karachi and completed the syllabus from Madrasa Ta‘lim al- Qur’ân, Rawalpindi in 1966. He got the degrees of B.A. Hons. (Arabic) in 1966; B.A. Hons. (Persian) in 1968; M.A. (Arabic) in 1976; and PhD in 1998 from the

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, Lahore.

Books

Ghazi wrote about 30 books and more than 100 articles. His ''Muhaazraat Series'' have also been published as separate books. Muhaazraat Series are a collection of about 68 lectures, Ghazi had given at Idara al-Huda on different topics like

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and

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. His other notable books include:

Urdu books

* ''Adab al-Qadi'' * ''Musawwadah Qanun-e-Qisas wa Diyat'' * ''Ahkam-e-Bulughat'' * ''Islam Ka Qanun Bayn al-Mamalik'' *''Quran Ek Ta'aruf'' * ''Islami Shari'at awr Asr-e-Hazir'' * ''Muhkamat-e-Alam-e-Qur'an'' * ''Amr bil Maruf wa Nahy un al-Munkar'' * ''Usul al-Fiqh I & II'' (Related to

) * ''Qawa’id al-Fiqhiyyah I & II'' *''Tafneen ash-Shar'iah''

English books

Notable English works of Ghazi are:Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi (1950-2010): Life & Contributions (Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol.4, No. 2 (2012)) * ''The Hijrah: Its Philosophy and Message for the Modern Man'' * ''Qadianism'' * ''The Life and Work of the Prophet of Islam'' (The book has been translated from the marvelous French work of Dr.

Muhammad Hamidullah Muhammad Hamidullah ( ur, محمد حمیداللہ, translit=Muḥammad Ḥamīdullāh; 19 February 1908 – 17 December 2002) was a scholar of hadiths (''muhaddith)'' and Islamic law ( faqih) and a prolific academic author. A polymath with com ...

). * ''Renaissance and Revivalism in Muslim India ― 1707-1867'' * ''The Shorter book on Muslim International Law'' (Translation of ''al-Siyar al-Saghir'' of

Muhammad al-Shaybani Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī ( ar, أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/50 – 805), the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab jurist and a di ...

) * ''An Analytical Study of the Sannusiyyah Movement of North Africa'' * ''Islamic Renaissance in South Asia (1707-1867)―The Role of

Shah Waliullah Quṭb-ud-Dīn Aḥmad Walīullāh Ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Ibn Wajīh-ud-Dīn Ibn Muʿaẓẓam Ibn Manṣūr Al-ʿUmarī Ad-Dehlawī ( ar, ‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic ...

and His Successors'' * ''State and Legislation in Islam''

Death

Mehmood Ahmad Ghazi died on 26 September 2010.

References

External links

* http://www.mahmoodghazi.org/ - Official website dedicated to the life, achievements and works of Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghazi, Mahmood Ahmad 20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Muhajir people Pakistani Arabists Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Pakistani judges 2010 deaths 1950 births Academic staff of the International Islamic University, Islamabad University of the Punjab alumni Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia alumni Deobandis