Ashraf Ali Thanwi
Hakim al-Ummat, Mujaddidul Millat Ashraf Ali Thanwi | |
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اشْرَفُ عَلَى تِهَانَوَى | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Abd al-Ghani 19 August 1863[1] Thana Bhawan, Muzaffarnagar, British India |
| Died | 20 July 1943 (aged 79) Thana Bhawan, Muzaffarnagar, British India |
| Spouse(s) | 2 |
| Alma mater | Darul 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 still continues to be highly influential.[2] He has written many works such as Amal e-Qurani which is a famous book which features magic spells and Qur'an-based spells such as one to cause separation and dislike for two people.[3] He is a graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband, which was where he studied the Hanafi madhab and Sufism. This ended up leading him to become one of the top scholars of the Deobandi movement.[4] After his studies at Deoband, he moved to Kanpur, then Thana Bhawan which was where he died.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanwi".
- ↑ Naeem, Fuad (2009), "Thānvī, Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī", The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530513-5
- ↑ Thanvi, Ashraf. Amal e-Quran [Remedies from The Holy Qur'an]. pp. 58–59.
- ↑ 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