Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Hakim al-Ummat, Mujaddidul Millat

Ashraf Ali Thanwi
اشْرَفُ عَلَى تِهَانَوَى
Personal details
Born
Abd al-Ghani

(1863-08-19)19 August 1863[1]
Thana Bhawan, Muzaffarnagar, British India
Died20 July 1943(1943-07-20) (aged 79)
Thana Bhawan, Muzaffarnagar, British India
Spouse(s)2
Alma materDarul Uloom Deoband

Ashraf Ali Thanvi was a scholar of the Deobandi movement who was one of the central figures of religious life in South Asia and continues to be highly influential.[2] He wrote many works such as Amal e-Qurani, a famous book that features Qur'an-based spells such as one to cause separation and dislike for two people.[3]

He was a graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband, where he studied the Hanafi madhab and Sufism. That ended in him becoming one of the top scholars of the Deobandi movement.[4] After his studies at at the seminary, he moved to Kanpur and then to Thana Bhawan, where he died.

References

  1. "Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanwi".
  2. Naeem, Fuad (2009), "Thānvī, Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī", The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530513-5
  3. Thanvi, Ashraf. Amal e-Quran [Remedies from The Holy Qur'an]. pp. 58–59.
  4. 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