Muḥammad Manz̤oor Nomānī ( 15 December 1905 – 4 May 1997) was an Indian

Islamic scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of reli ...

. Prominent among his written works are ''Maariful Hadith'', ''Islam Kya Hai?'', and ''Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution''. He graduated from

Darul Uloom Deoband The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary (darul uloom) in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim ...

in 1927, where he studied

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

under

Anwar Shah Kashmiri Anwar Shah Kashmiri (known with honorifics as ''Sayyid Muḥammad Anwar Shāh ibn Mu‘aẓẓam Shāh al-Kashmīrī''; 16 November 1875 – 28 May 1933) was a Kashmiri Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the first principal of Madrasa Ami ...

. He held the post of Shaykh al-Hadith at

Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama (translated as, House of Knowledge and Assembly of Scholars University) is an Islamic seminary in Lucknow, India. It was established by the Nadwatul Ulama, a council of Muslim scholars, on 26 September 1898. This educ ...

for four years, and was a close associate of

Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (also known as Ali Miyan; 5 December 1913 – 31 December 1999) was a leading Islamic scholar, thinker, writer, preacher, reformer and a Muslim public intellectual of 20th century India and the author of numerous boo ...

. A founding member of

Jamaat-e-Islami Jamaat-e-Islami ( ur, ) () is an Islamic movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamic theologian and socio-political philosopher, Syed Abul Ala Maududi.van der Veer P. and Munshi S. (eds.''Media, War, and Terrorism: Responses fro ...

in 1941, he was elected the group's Deputy

Amir Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cerem ...

, second to

Abul A'la Maududi Abul A'la al-Maududi ( ur, , translit=Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; – ) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the parti ...

. However, in 1942, following disagreements with Maududi he led a group in resigning from the organization. Afterwards he became affiliated with the

Tablighi Jamaat Tablighi Jamaat (, also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") is a transnational Deobandi Islamic missionary movement that focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant and encouraging fellow members t ...

Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925, in Mewat province. Early life and education Muhammad ...

. He served on the Majlis-e-Shura and Majlis-e-Amilah (Executive Council) of Darul Uloom Deoband and was a member of the

Muslim World League The Muslim World League (MWL; ar, رابطة العالم الاسلامي, Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami, ) is an International Islamic NGO based in Mecca, Saudi Arabia that promotes what it calls the true message of Islam by advancing moderate v ...

Biography

Manzoor Nomani was born on 15 December 1905 (18 Shawwal 1323 AH) in

Sambhal Sambhal is a city located in the Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh state in India. The city lies approximately 158 kilometres (98 mi) east of New Delhi and 355 kilometres (220 mi) north-west of state capital Lucknow. History Sambhal ...

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 1902 to 1921; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province had been ...

British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himsel ...

." / Ṣāḥib-i kitāb kā muk͟htaṣar ta‘ārif". In His father, Sufi Muhammad Husain, was a moderately wealthy businessman and landlord. Nomani received his primary education in his hometown, graduating from

Madrasa Sirajul Uloom Hilali Sarai Sambhal Madrasa Sirajul Uloom ur, , Sambhal is an old Madrasa (theological Institute) established in Sambhal city of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established by Maulana Khaleel Ahmad Israili back in 1902 AD in the commemoration of Maulana Siraj Isr ...

. Later he studied at

Darul Uloom Mau Darul Uloom Mau is an Islamic Madrasa which was established in Mau in 1875. Notable alumni * Abdul Haq Azmi * Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azmi * Habibur Rahman Khairabadi * Manzur Nu'mani * Muhammad Mustafa Azmi * Mujahidul Islam Qasmi * Noor Alam Kh ...

. Finally he enrolled at Darul Uloom Deoband where he remained for two years. He graduated in 1345 AH (1927), receiving the highest marks in the examination for ''dawrah hadith''. Among his teachers at Darul Uloom Deoband were

Azizur 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 ...

, and Siraj Ahmad Rashidi. After completing his studies he taught for three years at Madrasa Chilla,

Amroha Amroha is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is located north-west of Moradabad, near the Ganga River. It is the administrative headquarters of the Amroha district. Geography Amroha is located north-west of Moradabad, near the ...

. Thereafter for four years he held the post of Shaykh al-Hadith at

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

. In 1934 (1353 AH) he established a monthly journal, ''al-Furqan'', from

Bareilly Bareilly () is a city in Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is among the largest metropolises in Western Uttar Pradesh and is the centre of the Bareilly division as well as the historical region of Rohilkhand. The city ...

. The journal began with a focus towards polemics, but in 1942 (1361 AH) it became more of an academic and religious journal. Nomani was a founding member of

. At its Founding Session in August 1941 he led the seven-member committee that proposed Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi as Amir. He himself was selected as Na'ib Amir (Deputy Amir). Six months later, in 1942, Nomani arrived at the Jamaat's ''Darul Islam'' community in

Pathankot Pathankot is a city and the district headquarters of the Pathankot district in Punjab, India. Pathankot is the 6th most populous city of Punjab, after Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Bathinda. Its local government is a municipal cor ...

with the intention of permanently settling there. He was appointed the first

Muhtasib A muḥtasib ( ar, محتسب, from the root ''ḥisbah'', or "accountability"Sami Zubaida (2005), Law and Power in the Islamic World, , pages 58-60) was "a holder of the office of al-hisbah in classical Islamic administrations", according to Ox ...

of ''Darul Islam''. However, due to differences with Maududi he left Jamaat-i Islami in August/September 1942 (Sha'ban 1361 AH) and returned home to Sambhal. Detailing his time with Maududi and the reasons for his departure from Jamaat-i Islami he wrote ''Maulana Maududi ke sath meri rifaqat ki sarguzasht aur ab mera mauqif'' (1980). After leaving Jamaat-e-Islami, he and

became affiliated with the

movement. Nomani's compilation of the ''malfuzat'' (sayings) of Muhammad Ilyas comes from the period of 1943 to 1944, mostly during Ilyas's final illness. In 1943 (1362 AH) he was appointed a member of the Majlis-e-Shura of Darul Uloom Deoband. He regularly attended its meetings and those of the Majlis-e-Amilah (Executive Council). He died in Lucknow on 4 May 1997 and is buried in

Aishbagh Aishbagh ( hi, ऐशबाग़, ur, ) is a locality in Lucknow, India. Basically it was an industrial area and there were lot of industries and factories available here namely Milkmade factory, PTC Industries LTD, and many more but in recen ...

Literary works

*''Islām kyā hai'' (1952) *''Dīn o sharī‘at'' (1958) *''Qur’ān āp se kyā kihtā hai'' *''Ma‘āriful-Ḥadīs̱'' *''Kalimah-yi ṭayyibah kī ḥaqīqat'' *''Namāz kī ḥaqīqat'' *''Āp Ḥajj kaise karaiṉ'' *''Barakāt-i Ramaẓān'' *''Taḥqīq mas’alah-yi īṣāl-i s̱awāb'' *''Tasawwuf kyā hai'' *''Taẕkirah-yi Imām-i Rabbānī'' (1959) *''Malfūz̤āt-i Maulānā Muḥammad Ilyās'' (1950) *''Bawāriqul-ghaib'' *''Haẓrat Shāh Ismā‘īl Shahīd par mu‘ānidīn ke ilzāmāt'' (1957) *''K͟hāksār taḥrīk'' *''Qur’ān ‘ilm kī roshnī meṉ'' *''Islām aur kufr ke ḥudūd'' *''Qādiyānī kyūṉ Musalmān nahīṉ'' *''Saif-i Yamānī'' *''Maulānā Maudūdī ke sāth merī rifāqat kī sarguzasht aur ab merā mauqif'' *''Shaik͟h Muḥammad ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhāb ke k͟hilāf propaiganḍah aur Hindūstān ke ‘ulama’-i ḥaqq par us ke as̱arāt'' *''Īrānī inqilāb, Imām K͟humainī, aur Shīʻiyat''(1984) or Khomeini, Iranian Revolution and Shi'ite faith.

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