• Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (Arabic: صدر الشريعة الأصغر), also known as Sadr al-Shari'a al-Thani (Arabic: صدر الشريعة الثاني), was a Hanafi-Maturidi scholar...
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    Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a...
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    a human scarecrow as a warning to other sailors on the strait. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
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    prescribed by the Islamic law (sharīʿa), he is not considered an apostate as long as he doesn't deny his obligations. According to al-Maturidi, faith isn't based...
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    Muqatil al-Razi (d. 248 H/ 662 CE), Abu Nasr al-Ayadi "al-Faqih al-Samarqandi" (d. 260 H?), Nusayr bin Yahya al-Balkhi (d. 268 H/ 881 CE), and Abu Bakr al-Juzjani...
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    In truth, the pearly verse of the poem combines the Canon Law of Islam (sharīʿa) with the Sufi Path (ṭarīqa) and the Divine Reality (ḥaqīqa); the author's...
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    Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri (Persian: ابو الحسن علی بن عثمان الجلابی الھجویری, romanized: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Jullābī...
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    Syed Muhammad ibn Yousuf al-Hussaini (30 July 1321 − 1 November 1422), commonly known as Bande Nawaz or Gisu Daraz, was a Hanafi Maturidi scholar and Sufi...
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  • Abd al-Haqq (Muhaddith) al-Dehlawi was an Islamic scholar, Sufi and author from India. He was born in 1551 (958 AH) in Delhi, hence the suffix Dehlavi...
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  • Al-Fiqh al-Akbar (Arabic: الفقه الأكبر) or "The Greater Knowledge" is a popular early Islamic text attributed to the Muslim jurist Abu Hanifa. It is one...
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    Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti Sijzi (Persian: معین الدین چشتی, romanized: Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī; February 1143 – March 1236), known reverentially as Khawaja...
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    Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658...
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    Haqqani Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri Anzar Shah Kashmiri Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri Asghar Hussain Deobandi Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri Azhar Shah Qaiser Athar Ali Bengali...
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  • the author of Bada'i' al-Sana'i' (Arabic: بدائع الصنائع). Sadr al-A'imma Abu al-Ma'ali Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Muhammad b. al-Husain al-Bazdawi (d. 542/1147)...
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    Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed (1403 – 18 December 1474), Persian: علاءالدین علی بن محمد سمرقندی known as Ali Qushji (Ottoman Turkish : علی قوشچی, kuşçu –...
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    Shashi Jain for Pointer Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 978-81-7132-598-6. Ali, Asghar (9 April 2011). "Islamic identity in secular India". The Milli Gazette....
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  • Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni (Arabic: بدر الدين العيني, romanized: Badr al-ʿAynī; born 26 Ramadan 762 AH/30...
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  • Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya (Arabic: العقيدة الطحاوية) or Bayan al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a (Arabic: بيان السنة والجماعة, lit. 'Exposition of Sunna and the Position...
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  • p. 108. ISBN 9783030259013. Sohaira Siddiqui, ed. (2018). Locating the Sharīʿa: Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice. Studies in Islamic Law...
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  • scholars such as Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawi, Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi, and Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi. Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, the author of Al-Hidayah, was his...
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  • Al-Bazdawi studied under Shams al-A'imma 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Halwani (d. 456/1064) who was also a teacher to Al-Sarakhsi. Sadr al-Islam Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi...
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    At the age of five, after the death of his father, Syed Abdullah bin Ahmad AlHussaini Badayuni, he came to Delhi with his mother, Bibi Zulekha. His biography...
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    used to hold in his own house and considered perfectly legal from the Shari’a point of view. One was held on the anniversary of Prophet Muhammad’s demise...
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  • Abu Ali al-Khayyat (Arabic: أبو علي الخياط; c. 153 – 220 AH (c. 770 – c. 835 CE)), often called by the Latin title Albohali in western sources, (also called...
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  • 1274) Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (d. 1310) Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1311) Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 1346) Ibn al-Shatir (d. 1375) Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd...
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  • of narration) from Al Hidayah of Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Hanbali of Makkah and Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Gharbi. Abdul Ghani...
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    students number in thousands. His major students include Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Asghar Hussain Deobandi, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Hussain Ahmad Madani, Izaz Ali Amrohi...
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    For Syed Ahmad and the followers of the Faraizi movement, India was "Dar al-Harb" (a land without a peace treaty with Muslims) and therefore jihad was...
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  • Muhammad, and completed the first two volumes of the planned work, Sirat al-Nabi. His disciple, Sulaiman Nadvi, added to this material and wrote the remaining...
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  • Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (Arabic: أبو الْيُسر الْبَزْدَوي) (c.1030-c.1100), who was given the honorific title of Sadr al-Islam, was a prominent Central Asian...
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