![]() Thanwi was Imdadullah Muhajir Makki's spiritual successor. In 1315 A.H he resigned from service and took abode in Khanqah-i-Imdadiyah at Thana Bhawan. ![]() His teaching was so famous that student used to flock to him from far off places. After graduation he first became a head-teacher in Madrasa-i Faiz-i-Aam at Kanpur in 1301 A.H and then graced the Masnad of Principal-ship in Madrasa-e-Jamia al-Ulum. He practiced Tajwid and Qiraʼat at Mecca under the guidance of Qari Muhammad Abdullah. In 1295 A.H he took admission in Darul Uloom Deoband and graduated in 1301 A.H. He attained his early education under his maternal uncle Wajid Ali and Fateh Muhammad in Thana Bhawan and also memorized the Quran at a very young age from Hafiz Hussain of Meeruth. ![]() His lineage can be traced back to the second caliph Umar. Īshraf Ali Thanwi was born in 19 September 1863 in Thana Bhawan, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh. He offers a sketch of a Muslim community that is collective, patriarchal, hierarchical and compassion-based. His teaching mixes Sunni orthodoxy, Islamic elements of belief and the patriarchal structure of the society. ![]() His training in Quran, Hadith, Fiqh studies qualified him to become a leading Sunni authority among the scholars of Deoband. 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. ![]() As a prolific author, he completed over a thousand works including Bayan Ul Quran and Bahishti Zewar. He was a central figure of Islamic spiritual, intellectual and religious life in South Asia and continues to be highly influential today. Ashraf Ali Thanwi (19 September 1863 – 20 July 1943) often referred as Hakim al-Ummat and Mujaddid e Millet, a late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Sunni scholar, jurist, thinker, reformist and the revival of classical sufi thought from Indian subcontinent during the British Raj, one of the chief proponent of Pakistan Movement. ![]()
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