Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (also written as Mamluk al-Ali Nanautawi) (1789–7 October 1851) was an

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Sunni Muslim scholar who served as the Head Teacher of Arabic language at the

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. His notable students include

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and

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Birth and education

Mamluk Ali Nanautawi was born in 1789 into the Siddiqi family of

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. Not much has been found on the primary education of Nanautawi. However it is said that he may have completed his primary education from the elders of his family. Nūr al-Hasan Rāshid Kāndhlawi assumes that Nanautawi's studies might have taken place under the supervision of Nanautawi students of Mufti Ilāhi Bakhsh namely Abdur Rahmān and Abdur Raheem. He completed his middle studies under Mufti Ilāhi Bakhsh Kāndhlawi and Muhammad Qalandar Jalālābadi. He is reported to have studied one discourse with

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. There is another narration stating that he studied from Abdullah Khan Alvi. He completed his higher studies under Rasheed-ud-Dīn Khan.

Career

After completing his studies, Mamluk Ali started teaching in Delhi. In June 1825, he was appointed as a lecturer of Arabic in

and was promoted to the post of head teacher on 8 November 1841. He continued as the head teacher of this college throughout his life. Besides teaching the books on rational sciences, Arabic language,

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, he also taught the books of ''

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''. According to

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, Nanautawi spent his entire career teaching in Delhi. The known scholars of that era are reported to have studied alongside him.

Students

His notable students include: *

, Founder of

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, Founder of

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. *

, Hanafi jurist. *

, First Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. *

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, Father of Urdu novel. * Muhammad Mazhar Nanautawi * Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri, Hadīth scholar *

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(Co-founder of Darul Uloom Deoband and father of

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) * Fazlur Rahman Deobandi (Co-founder of Darul Uloom Deoband and father of

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) *

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(Former VC of Deoband) *

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Death and legacy

Nanautawi died of jaundice on 7 October 1851 and was buried in Munhadiyan,

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near the graveyard of

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. His son Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi served as the first Principal of

. Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi, the founder of Darul Uloom Deoband studied most of his books with Mamluk Ali.

Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri Abū Ibrāhīm K͟halīl Aḥmad ibn Majīd ‘Alī Anbahṭawī Sahāranpūrī Muhājir Madanī ( ur, ; December 185213 October 1927) was a Deobandi Hanafi Islamic scholar from India who authored ''Badhl al-Majhud'', an 18-volume commentary ...

, the author of ''Badhl al-Majhud'', an eighteen volume commentary on '' Sunan Abu Dawud'' was Nanautawi's grandson. Syed Ahmad Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University commended him saying that, "the memory that Mamlūk Ali possessed was so profound that if per chance the entire library of knowledge was lost, Mawlāna would have once again written it all down from the treasure chest of his memory."

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