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Mawlana, Mufti
Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi
Born (1954-01-25) 25 January 1954 (age 70)
Basti, Uttar Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Islamic scholar, mufti, teacher, writer
Notable work
  • Masārif-e-Zakat
  • Islami Nikāh
  • Hindustan aur Nizam-e-Qaza
  • Hindustan mein Nifaz-e-Shariat
  • Mustalahat-e-Fiqhi
  • Dawlat-e-Usmania aur Turkey ki Tareekh

Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi (born 25 January 1954), also written as Ateeque Ahmad Qasmi Bastawi and Ateeq Ahmed Bastavi, is an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist, and writer. He has been serving as a professor of Hadith and Fiqh at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow, since 1980. He is also the secretary of the Majlis-e-Tahqiqat-e-Shariah at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, the academic secretary of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, India, and the convener of the Dar-ul-Qaza Committee of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Bastawi is the founder and president of Ma'had-ush-Shariah in Lucknow and has authored and translated several notable works in Urdu on Islamic jurisprudence and theology.

Early life and education

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Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi was born on January 25, 1954, in Basti, a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. His father's name is Muhammad Rafique.[1]

He began his education at a maktab in his hometown.[1][2] He studied Arabic from the elementary to the intermediate level at Madrasa Noor-ul-Uloom in Bahraich. For further education, he enrolled at Darul Uloom Deoband and graduated in the Dars-e-Nizami curriculum in 1973. In 1974, he completed the Ifta course there.[3] He also passed the Alim examinations from the Allahabad Board.[4]

Career

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Since 1980, Bastawi has been serving as a teacher of Hadith and Fiqh at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow.[2] He serves as the Academic Secretary of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, India;[5][6][7] the Qazi-e-Shariah of Darul-Qaza, Lucknow; the founder and president of Ma'had-ush-Shariah in Lucknow;[1][8][9] and the Convener of the Department of Qaza of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.[10][11] Since February 2020, he has also been serving as the Secretary of the Fiqh Institute, Majlis-e-Tahqiqat-e-Shariah, at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow.[12]

Literary works

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Bastawi primarily has a temperament inclined toward Fiqh and research. To date, dozens of his scholarly, juristic, and research articles have been published in Arabic journals both in India and abroad, along with over two hundred Urdu articles that have appeared in periodicals across the Indian subcontinent.[4][9] Even before joining Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in 1980, his articles had begun to be published in the monthly Al-Furqan, Lucknow.[13]

He has translated several Arabic and Persian books, including the Urdu translation of Jamaluddin Atiyyah's Al-Tanzir Al-Fiqhi as Fiqh-e-Islami Ki Nazariyah Sazi, Atiyya's Al-Nazariyah Al-Ammah Lil-Shariah Al-Islamiyyah as Islami Shariat Ka Amoodi Nazariyah, and Syed Muhammad Zahir Hasani's Persian book Khair-ul-Masālik into Urdu. Similarly, he has published various books with his research and annotations, including Şihabetdin Märcani's Nāzūratul Haqq fi Fardiyyatil Isha Wa In Lam Yaghb Al-Shafaq,[14][9] Rahmatullah Kairanawi's Izālat Al-Shukūk (in four volumes),[15] and Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Al-Hīlah An-Nājizah.[14][9]

His works include the following books:[4][16][9]

  • Masarif-e-Zakat (Uses of Zakat)
  • Zakat aur Mas'ala-e-Tamleek (Zakat and the Issue of Ownership)
  • Islami Nikah (Islamic Marriage)
  • Hindustan aur Nizam-e-Qaza (India and the Islamic Judicial System)
  • Hindustan mein Nifaz-e-Shariat (Implementation of Shariah in India)
  • Mustalahat-e-Fiqhi (Terminologies of Islamic Jurisprudence)
  • Chand Ashab-e-Fazeelat (Some Distinguished Companions)
  • Fikr ki Ghalti (Waheed Khan Sahib ke Afkar ka Tanqeedi Jaaiza) ((The Error of Thought: A Critical Analysis of Wahiduddin Khan's Ideologies)
  • Dawlat-e-Usmania aur Turkey ki Tareekh (The History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, in three volumes[17][18])
  • Īsai Missionaries ki Sargarmiyan aur Musalman (Activities of Christian Missionaries and Muslims)
  • Sahabi ki Tareef aur Sahaba ke Maqam wa Martaba ke Bare Mein Ghalat Fehmiyon ka Izala (Clarifying Misunderstandings About the Definition of a Sahabi and the Status and Rank of the Sahaba).
  • Hindustan mein Muslim Personal Law ka Mas'ala (The Issue of Muslim Personal Law in India)
  • Islam ka Nizam-e-Mīrāth (The Islamic System of Inheritance)
  • Islami Sazain aur Jurm ka Roktham (Islamic Punishments and Crime Prevention)

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c Qasmi & Qasmi 2011, p. 385.
  2. ^ a b Abbasi 2020, p. 236.
  3. ^ Abbasi 2020, pp. 236–237.
  4. ^ a b c Hasan 2013, p. 255.
  5. ^ Qasmi, Mujahidul Islam (2009). Hussain, Mohd Saghir (ed.). Aḥkām al-Dhabīḥah min al-Manẓūr al-Islāmī [The Islamic Concept Of Animal Slaughter]. Translated by Khan, Salar M. (1st ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah. p. 81. ISBN 978-2-7451-6060-7.
  6. ^ Qasmi, Abrar Kaleem (January 2013). Amini, Noor Alam Khalil (ed.). "Mahārāt al-Baḥth fī al-Qadāyā al-Fiqhīyah al-Muʿāṣirah wa Maṣādiruhā al-Maṭbūʿah wa al-Iliktrūnīyah wa Namādhij Taṭbīqīyah min al-Qadāyā al-Muʿāṣirah" [Skills in researching contemporary jurisprudential issues and their printed and electronic sources, along with applied examples from contemporary issues.]. Al-Da'i. 38 (3).
  7. ^ "ورشة فقهية في نيودلهي: واجب العلماء معالجة مشكلات العصر" [A Jurisprudential Workshop in New Delhi: It is the Duty of Scholars to Address the Issues of the Age]. Asharq Al-Awsat (in Arabic). 14 February 2004. Archived from the original on 20 November 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  8. ^ Abbasi 2020, p. 240.
  9. ^ a b c d e Mukhtar, As'ad; Mehtāb, Ahsan, eds. (16–31 January 2017). "Urdu ke farogh mein Deoband ka deṛh so salah kirdār" [The 150-year Role of Deoband in the Promotion of Urdu]. Fortnightly Fikr-e-Inqilāb. 5 (112) (2nd ed.): 690–691.
  10. ^ "Women qazis allowed under Islamic law: AIMPLB panel". The Indian Express. 15 March 2016. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  11. ^ "No government or court has right to effect changes in Shariat". The Milli Gazette. 8 May 2017. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  12. ^ Nadwi, Raihan Baig (5 October 2024). "Nadwat al-'Ulamā' aur is ke 'Ilmī o Taḥqīqī Idāre: Ek Ta'āruf" [Nadwat al-‘Ulamā’ and its Academic and Research Institutions: An Introduction]. Rafeeq-e-Manzil (in Urdu). Archived from the original on 20 November 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  13. ^ Bastawi, Ateeq Ahmad (30 January 2022). "Maulana Atiq-ur-Rehman Sambhali: Nuqoosh o Tatthuraat" [Maulana Atiq-ur-Rehman Sambhali: Imprints and Influences]. Qindeel Online (in Urdu). Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  14. ^ a b Hasan 2013, pp. 255–256.
  15. ^ Qasmi, Ishtiaque Ahmad (January 2018). Bijnori, Muhammad Salman (ed.). "Book Review: New Releases". Monthly Darul Uloom. 102 (1): 51–52. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  16. ^ Shujauddīn, Amīnuddīn (May 2017). Nadwi, Munawwar Sultan (ed.). Rūbaroo (Interviews ka Majmū'ah) [Rūbaroo (A Collection of Interviews)] (in Urdu). Lucknow: Majlis-e-Ilm-o-Adab. p. 301 – via Rekhta (website).
  17. ^ Muradabadi, Masoom (21 July 2024). "Dawlat-e-Uthmāniyyah aur Turki ki Tārīkh (Book Review)". Qindeel Online (in Urdu). Archived from the original on 20 November 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  18. ^ "ناظم ندوۃ العلماء نے کتاب "دولت عثمانیہ اور ترکی کی تاریخ" کا رسم اجرا کیا، تاریخِ فلسطین کا بھی ذکر" [Nāzim of Nadwatul Ulama inaugurated the book "Dawlat-e-Uthmāniyyah aur Turkey ki Tareekh," and also mentioned the history of Palestine.]. ETV Urdu (in Urdu). 15 June 2024. Archived from the original on 20 November 2024. Retrieved 20 November 2024.

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