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{{Infobox religious biography<br />
| religion = Islam<br />
| title = <br />
| honorific_prefix = Mawlānā<br />
| name = Nizāmuddīn Asīr Adrawi<br />
| image = Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| birth_date = {{birth date text|1926}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Adari]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2021|5|20|1926}}<br />
| death_place = Adari, [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]<br />
| region = India<br />
| denomination = [[Sunni]]<br />
| jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]<br />
| movement = [[Deobandi]]<br />
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|<br />
* Jamia Miftahul Uloom<br />
* [[Madrasa Shahi]]<br />
}}<br />
| main_interests = [[History]]<br />
| notable_works = {{Bulleted list|''Tarikh Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind''|''Tehreek-e-Azadi aur Musalman''| ''Karwan-e-Rafta''}}<br />
| influences = [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]], [[Muhammad Miyan Deobandi]], [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]], [[Habibur Rahman Azami|Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami]]<br />
| founder = Madrassa Darus Salam, Adri<br />
}}<br />
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'''Nizāmuddīn Asīr Adrawi''' (also known as '''Asīr Adrawi'''; 1926 – 20 May 2021) was an Indian [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] Muslim scholar, biographer, historian and author in the [[Urdu]] language. He established the Madrassa Darus Salam in [[Adari]] and served as the Officer In Charge of the [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] in [[Lucknow]] from 1974 to 1978.<br />
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Asīr was an alumnus of the Jamia Miftahul Uloom, Madrassa Ehya-ul-Uloom and the [[Madrasa Shahi]]. He taught Islamic sciences at the Madrasa Jamia Islamia in Rewri Talab, [[Varanasi]]. His works include the ''Maʼās̲ir-i Shaik̲h̲ulislām'', ''Tafāsīr mai Isrā'īli Riwāyāt'' and the biographies of [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]], [[Imamuddin Punjabi]], [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi]], [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]] and [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi was born in 1926 in [[Adari]], [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh|Mau]], then in the [[United Provinces of British India]].<ref name="inaam">{{cite news |author1=Syed Inaamul Hasan |title=مولانا اسیر ادروی: ایک تعارف |trans-title=Mawlāna Asīr Adrawi: An Introduction|url=https://www.baseeratonline.com/archives/146963 |access-date=21 May 2021 |work=Baseerat Online |date=21 May 2021 |language=ur}}</ref> He was schooled at the Madrasa Faydh al-Ghuraba in Adari, and then at the Jamia Miftahul Uloom where he studied with [[Habibur Rahman Azami|Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azmi]], Munshi Zahīr-ul-Haq Nishāt Simābi and Abdul Latīf Nomāni. He then went to the Madrassa Ehya-ul-Uloom in [[Mubarakpur, Azamghar|Mubarakpur]], where he studied with scholars such as [[Shukrullah Mubarakpuri]]. He then moved to [[Darul Uloom Mau]] where he studied the ''[[Mishkat al-Masabih|Mishkat]]'' with Abdur Rasheed al-Hussayni and the ''[[Tafsir al-Jalalayn|Jalalayn]]'' with Qari Riyasat Ali.<ref name="inaam"/> He applied for admission to the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] but was unsuccessful and thus went to the [[Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi|Madrasa Shahi]] for higher studies and graduated in 1942.<ref name="qindeel1">{{cite news |author1=Nayab Hasan |title=مولانا نظام الدین اسیر ادروی:اسیرِ علم و قلم |trans-title=Mawlāna Asīr Adrawi: The prisinor of pen and knowledge |url=https://qindeelonline.com/maulana-nizam-aseer-adrawi-aseere-elmu-qalam/ |access-date=20 May 2021 |work=Qindeel Online |archive-date=20 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520150350/https://qindeelonline.com/maulana-nizam-aseer-adrawi-aseere-elmu-qalam/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="qindeel"/> He studied the ''[[Sahih al-Bukhari|Sahih Bukhari]]'' with [[Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad]], the ''[[Sahih Muslim]]'' with Ismail Sambhali and the works of ''[[Al-Tirmidhi|Tirmidhi]]'' with [[Muhammad Miyan Deobandi]].<ref name="hayat">{{cite journal |last1=Aafi |first1=Aaqib Anjum |title=مولانا نظام الدین اسیر ادروی: حیات اور کارنامے |journal=Pasban |date=September–October 2019 |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=18–21 |publisher=Idara Pasban Ilm-o-Adab |location=Azamgarh |language=ur}}</ref><br />
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Asīr participated in the [[Quit India Movement]].<ref name="qindeel1"/> He was associated with the [[Indian National Congress]] until 1948, when he joined the [[Congress Socialist Party]].<ref name="hayat" /> He established the Madrassa Darus Salam in Adari, [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh|Mau]] in 1954, and taught there for around sixteen years.<ref name="inaam"/> He served as the Officer In Charge of the [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind|Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]], Uttar Pradesh in [[Lucknow]] from 1974 to 1978 and thereafter taught Islamic Sciences at the Madrasa Jamia Islamia in Rewri Talab, [[Varanasi]] from 4 February 1978 till he was bedridden due to old age.<ref name="dastan">{{cite book |author=Asir Adrawi |url=https://archive.org/details/Dastaan-i-Natamam-Khud-Nosht-Swaneh-Maulana-Nizamuddin-Aseer-Adravi-Sahib |title=Dastan Na'tamam |publisher=Kutub Khana Husainia |date=November 2009 |location=Deoband |pages=13, 21–28, 331 |language=ur |trans-title=An Unfinished Story}}</ref><br />
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Asīr was the editor of the ''3 monthly Tarjumān'' and wrote hundreds of articles for it. He was a columnist and a writer for the ''Weekly Al-Jamiat'' and ''Daily al-Jamiat'' of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind.<ref name="fikrinqelab">{{cite journal |date=January 2017 |title=Urdu Ke Farogh Mai Ulama-e-Deoband Ka 150 Saala Kirdar |trans-title=The 150 Year Role of the Darul Uloom Deoband in the Promotion of Urdu |journal=Fikr-e-Inqelab (Lit. Revolutionary Thought) |language=Urdu |publisher=All India Tanzeem Ulama-e-Haque |volume=5 |issue=112 |page=533}}</ref> He wrote short stories and [[legend]]s including the ''Itnā'', ''Do LāsheiN'', ''Nashīb-o-Farāz'' and ''Aetirāf-e-Shikast''. His legends such as the ''Hand bag'' and ''Aspatāl'' were published by the Nawai Pakistan of [[Lahore]]. He also contributed to the ''Kāmyāb, Delhi'' and the ''Risālā Dārul Uloom'' of the Darul Uloom Deoband.<ref name="hayat" /> Several of his works have been considered primary sources for various Darul Uloom Deoband related issues.<ref name="qindeel1" /><br />
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Asīr died on 20 May 2021 in Adari, [[Mau, Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Qasmi |first1=Sana-ul-Huda |title=مولانا اسیر ادروی- تمام ہوئی داستان ناتمام |trans-title=Mawlānā Asīr Adrawī: The Incomplete Story is Now Complete |url=https://urdu.udannews.in/archives/4468 |access-date=13 February 2022 |work=Udan News |date=21 May 2021 |language=ur |archive-date=13 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213071804/https://urdu.udannews.in/archives/4468 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Arshad Madani]] expressed grief at his death and said that "Asīr Adrawi's death is an irreparable loss."<ref name="qindeel">{{cite news |title=مولانا نظام الدین اسیر ادروی کا انتقال ناقابلِ تلافی خسارہ:مولانا ارشدمدنی |trans-title=Maulana Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi's death is an irreparable loss: Arshad Madani |url=https://qindeelonline.com/moulana-nizamuddin-aseer-adrawi-ka-inteqal-na-qabile-talafi/ |access-date=20 May 2021 |work=Qindeel Online |date=20 May 2021 |language=ur |archive-date=20 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520150327/https://qindeelonline.com/moulana-nizamuddin-aseer-adrawi-ka-inteqal-na-qabile-talafi/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Asīr wrote biographies of the Islamic theologians [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi]], [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]], [[Imamuddin Punjabi]], [[Rahmatullah Kairanawi]], [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]] and [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]].<ref name="fikrinqelab"/> He abridged the four-volume ''Tarīkh-e-Islām'' ({{Translation|History of Islam}}) by [[Muinuddin Ahmad Nadwi]] into four thin volumes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kumar |first1=Nita |author1-link=Nita Kumar |title=The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity: Essays on Education in India |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=92 |isbn=978-0-19-568273-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1ScAAAAMAAJ&q=asir+adravi |access-date=13 February 2022}}</ref> His book, the ''Taḥrīk-i āzādī aur Musalmān'' ({{Translation|''The Independence Movement and the Muslims''}}) is part of the curricula of the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] and several other affiliated [[madrasa]]s.<ref name="qindeel1" /> His other books include:<ref name="inaam" /><ref name="viaf">{{cite web |title=Books authored by Maulana Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi |url=https://viaf.org/viaf/26160834 |website=viaf.org |publisher=[[Virtual International Authority File]] |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref><br />
* ''Afkār-e-Aalam'' ({{Translation|Thoughts on the World}})<br />
* ''Dabistān-i Devband kī ʻilmī k̲h̲idmāt'' ({{Translation|Academic Services of the Deoband School}})<br />
* ''Dārulʻulūm Devband, iḥyā-yi Islām kī ʻaẓīm taḥrīk'' ({{Translation|Darul-ulum Deoband, a magnificent movement of Islamic revival}})<br />
* ''Fun asma-ur-Rijal'' ({{Translation|Techniques for writing biographies and critiques on the narrators of the Hadiths}})<br />
* ''Maʼās̲ir-i Shaik̲h̲ulislām'' ({{Translation|Life and Times of Shaykh al-Islam}}, the biography of Hussain Ahmed Madani)<br />
* ''Tafāsīr mai Isrā'īli Riwāyāt'' ({{Translation|[[Isra'iliyyat|Jewish Traditions]] in Quranic [[Exegesis|Exegeses]]}})<br />
* ''Tārīkh Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind'' ({{Translation|The History of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind}})<br />
* ''Tārīkh-e-Tabri ka tehqīqi jayzah'' ({{Translation|A Methodical Survey of [[Al-Tabari]]'s Histories}})<br />
* ''Urdu sharah Dīvān-i Mutanabbī'' ({{Translation|An Urdu Explanation of [[Al-Mutanabbi]]'s Diwan}})<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Deobandis]]<br />
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[[Category:Scholars from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Islamic studies scholars]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]<br />
[[Category:Deobandis]]<br />
[[Category:Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian historians]]<br />
[[Category:Indian historians of Islam]]<br />
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