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Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi

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Mawlāna
Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi
Personal
Born1909
Ambehta, Saharanpur, British India
Died16 October 1992(1992-10-16) (aged 82–83)
Mumbai, India
ReligionIslam
ChildrenAbidullah Ghazi (son)
Parent
Notable work(s)Islām ka Nizām-e-Hukūmat, Khulq-e-Azeem
Alma materDarul Uloom Deoband, Jamia Islamia Talimuddin and the University of the Punjab
Known forediting Madina
Organization
Founder ofNadwatul Musannifeen

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 Ansari and an alumnus of the Darul Uloom Deoband, Jamia Islamia Talimuddin and University of the Punjab. He was a member of the executive council of Darul Uloom Deoband and authored books such as Islām ka Nizām-e-Hukūmat and Khulq-e-Azeem.

Biography

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Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi was born 1909 in Ambehta, Saharanpur.[1] His father Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari was one of the major leaders of the Silk Letter Movement.[2] Ghazi completed his primary studies under the guidance of his maternal grandfather Siddiq Ahmad Anbethvi.[1] He studied at the Darul Uloom Deoband and Jamia Islamia Talimuddin between 1922 and 1927.[3] He was one of the major students of Anwar Shah Kashmiri.[3] He passed the "munshi" and "fazil" exams from University of the Punjab.[3]

Ghazi contributed to the Al-Jamiyat of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for three years and then became the editor of Madina, a Bijnor-based newspaper.[3] He associated with Tajwar Najībābadi's Naqqād for sometime and then established Nadwatul Musannifeen along with Atiq-ur-Rahman Usmani, Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi and Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi.[3] Meanwhile, he served as the editor for Nida-e-Haram, a Mecca based magazine, at the request of Muhammad Saleem Muhajir Makki, the rector of Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah.[3] In 1942, he again joined Madina, and remained associated with it for five years.[4] He moved to Bombay in 1950, where he edited the Jamhuriyat, a daily newspaper published by Jamiat Ulama-e-Maharashtra. He discontinued editing this newspaper after it was renamed Gufira-lahu (غفرلہ) in 1956.[5] He then started a new paper on his own, Jamhuriyat, using the same name.[5]

Ghazi was appointed a member of the executive council of Darul Uloom Deoband in 1382 AH.[1] He died in Bombay on 16 October 1992.[2]

Literary works

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Ghāzi's books include:[1]

  • Islām ka Nizām-e-Hukūmat
  • Khulq-e-Azeem
  • Ṣad sālah yādgār: 1857 se 1957 tak Hindūstān kī jang-i āzādī men̲ musalmānon̲ ke k̲h̲ūn kā ḥiṣṣah

Personal life

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Ghāzi was married to Hajira Nazli, the daughter of Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi. Nazli is an author of twenty Urdu novels.[6] Indo-American author and educationist Abidullah Ghazi is their son.[7]

See also

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d Rizwi 1981, p. 114.
  2. ^ a b Adrawi 2016, p. 71.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Qasmi 2013, p. 198.
  4. ^ Qasmi 2013, pp. 198–199.
  5. ^ a b Qasmi 2013, p. 199.
  6. ^ Amini, Noor Alam Khalil. Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah (in Urdu) (May 2010 ed.). Deoband: Idara Ilm-o-Adab. p. 174.
  7. ^ Zahid Ur Rashdi (18 November 2000). "A meeting with Dr Abidullah Ghazi". zahidrashdi.org (in Urdu). Retrieved 22 December 2020.

Bibliography

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  • Adrawi, Asir (April 2016). Karwān-e-Rafta: Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind [The Caravan of the Past: Discussing Indian scholars] (in Urdu) (2nd ed.). Deoband: Darul Muallifeen.
  • Qasmi, Nayab Hasan (2013). "Mawlāna Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi". Darul Uloom Deoband Ka Sahafati Manzarnama (in Urdu). Deoband: Idara Tahqeeq-e-Islami. pp. 197–200.
  • Rizwi, Syed Mehboob (1981). Tārīkh Darul Uloom Deoband [History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband]. Vol. 2. Translated by Murtaz Husain F Quraishi (1st ed.). Deoband: Darul Uloom Deoband.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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