Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Hakim al-Ummat, Mujaddidul Millat
Ashraf Ali Thanwi
Hakim al-Ummat, Mujaddidul Millat Ashraf Ali Thanwi
اشرف علی تھانوی
Personal details
Born	Abd al-Ghani; 19 August 1863; Thana Bhawan, Muzaffarnagar, British India
Died	20 July 1943 (aged 79); Thana Bhawan, Muzaffarnagar, British India
Spouse	2
Parent	Abdul Haq (father);
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Deoband
Personal
Nationality	British Indian
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Maturidi
Movement	Deobandi
Main interest(s)	Sufism, Moral Philosophy, Islamic revival, Tafsir, Fiqh, Hadith, Prophetic biography
Notable work(s)	Majlis-e Dawatul Haq
Senior posting
Disciple of	Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
	Disciples Abdul Hai Arifi, Athar Ali Bengali, Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri, Abrarul Haq Haqqi, Shah Ahmad Hasan, Muhammadullah Hafezzi, Khair Muhammad Jalandhari, Masihullah Khan, Maqsudullah, Muhammad Shafi Deobandi, Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri, Habibullah Qurayshi, Sulaiman Nadvi, Shah Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi, Zafar Ahmad Usmani;
	Influenced Muhammad Iqbal, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar, Badre Alam Merathi;
Literary works	Bayan Ul Quran (1908); Bahishti Zewar; Imdad al-Fatawa; Nashr al-Tib fi Zikr al-Nabi al-Habib (1912);

Ashraf Ali Thanwi (often referred as Hakimul Ummat^[a]^[5] and Mujaddidul Millat^[b] (19 August 1863 – 20 July 1943) was a late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, thinker, reformist and the revival of classical Sufi thought from Indian subcontinent during the British Raj,^[6]^[7] one of the chief proponents of Pakistan Movement.^[5] He was a central figure of Islamic spiritual, intellectual and religious life in South Asia and continues to be highly influential today.^[5] As a prolific author, he completed over a thousand works including Bayan Ul Quran and Bahishti Zewar.^[5] He graduated from Darul Uloom Deoband in 1883 and moved to Kanpur, then Thana Bhawan to direct the Khanqah-i-Imdadiyah, where he resided until the end of his life.^[5] His training in Quran, Hadith, Fiqh studies and Sufism qualified him to become a leading Sunni authority among the scholars of Deoband.^[8] His teaching mixes Sunni orthodoxy, Islamic elements of belief and the patriarchal structure of the society.^[8] He offered a sketch of a Muslim community that is collective, patriarchal, hierarchical and compassion-based.^[8]

^ "Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanwi".
^ Bruckmayr, Philipp (2020). "Salafī Challenge and Māturīdī Response: Contemporary Disputes over the Legitimacy of Māturīdī kalām". Die Welt des Islams. 60 (2–3). Brill: 293–324. doi:10.1163/15700607-06023P06.
^ Ullah, Ahmad; Qadir, Ridwanul (February 2018). "কুতুবুল আলম হাকীমুন নফস, খলীফায়ে থানভী আল্লামা শাহ আবদুল ওয়াহহাব রহ. (১৮৯৪—১৯৮২) - এর সংক্ষিপ্ত জীবনচরিত". মাশায়েখে চাটগাম. Vol. 2 (1 ed.). 11/1, Islami Tower, Bangla Bazar, Dhaka-1100: Ahmad Prakashan. pp. 35–54. ISBN 978-984-92106-4-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
^ Wahid, Abdul (1982). Maqalat-e-iqbal (in Urdu). Lahore: Tufail Art Printers. p. 180.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Naeem, Fuad (2009), "Thānvī, Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī", The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530513-5
^ Esposito, John L. (2003), "Thanawi, Ashraf Ali", The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-512558-0
^ Faruque, Muhammad U. (2021). "Eternity Made Temporal: Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī, a Twentieth-Century Indian Thinker and the Revival of Classical Sufi Thought". Journal of Sufi Studies. 9 (2): 215–246. doi:10.1163/22105956-bja10009. ISSN 2210-5948. S2CID 242261580.
^ ^a ^b ^c Belhaj, Abdessamad (2014), "Thānvī, Ashraf ʿAlī", The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-981257-8

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[1] "Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanwi".

[2] Bruckmayr, Philipp (2020). "Salafī Challenge and Māturīdī Response: Contemporary Disputes over the Legitimacy of Māturīdī kalām". Die Welt des Islams. 60 (2–3). Brill: 293–324. doi:10.1163/15700607-06023P06.

[ahmad-3] Ullah, Ahmad; Qadir, Ridwanul (February 2018). "কুতুবুল আলম হাকীমুন নফস, খলীফায়ে থানভী আল্লামা শাহ আবদুল ওয়াহহাব রহ. (১৮৯৪—১৯৮২) - এর সংক্ষিপ্ত জীবনচরিত". মাশায়েখে চাটগাম. Vol. 2 (1 ed.). 11/1, Islami Tower, Bangla Bazar, Dhaka-1100: Ahmad Prakashan. pp. 35–54. ISBN 978-984-92106-4-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

[:iqbal-4] Wahid, Abdul (1982). Maqalat-e-iqbal (in Urdu). Lahore: Tufail Art Printers. p. 180.

[:OxfordIW-6] Naeem, Fuad (2009), "Thānvī, Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī", The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530513-5

[OxfordDI-8] Esposito, John L. (2003), "Thanawi, Ashraf Ali", The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-512558-0

[9] Faruque, Muhammad U. (2021). "Eternity Made Temporal: Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī, a Twentieth-Century Indian Thinker and the Revival of Classical Sufi Thought". Journal of Sufi Studies. 9 (2): 215–246. doi:10.1163/22105956-bja10009. ISSN 2210-5948. S2CID 242261580.

[:OxfordPST-10] Belhaj, Abdessamad (2014), "Thānvī, Ashraf ʿAlī", The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-981257-8

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