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|religion = [[Islam]]<br />
|birth_date = 1886<br />
|birth_place = [[Ziarat Kaka Sahib]], [[Nowshera District|Nowkhaar Province]], [[Emirate of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]<br>{{small|(present-day [[Pakistan]])}}<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1989|11|17|1886}}<br />
|death_place = [[Peshawar]], [[North-West Frontier Province|NWFP]], [[Pakistan]]<br />
|honorific_prefix = Mawlāna<br />
|name = Uzair Gul Peshawari<br />
|image = File:Uzair Gul Peshawari with Sami ul Haq.jpg<br />
|caption = [[Sami-ul-Haq]] (right) with Uzair Gul Peshawari<br />
|nationality = {{unbulleted list|Afghan (1886-1893)|British Indian (1893-1947)|Pakistani (1947-1989)}}<br />
|disciple_of = [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]]<br />
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]<br />
|known_for = [[Silk Letter Movement]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Uzair Gul Peshawari''' (1886 – 17 November 1989) was an Islamic scholar and an activist of the [[Indian freedom struggle]] who actively participated in the [[Silk Letter Movement]]. He was an alumnus of the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] and served as the head-teacher of Madrasa Rahmania in [[Roorkee]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Gul hailed from Ziarat Kaka Sahib, a town located in [[Peshawar]].<ref name="mahbub" /> He completed his primary studies with local teachers and moved to [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], where he studied with [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]].<ref name="asiran">{{cite book |author1=Muhammad Miyan Deobandi |authorlink1=Muhammad Miyan Deobandi |title=Asiran-e-Malta |trans-title = Prisoners of Malta |publisher=Naimia Book Depot |location=[[Deoband]] |pages=367–376 |edition=January 2002 |language=Urdu |chapter=Mawlāna Uzair Gul}}</ref> He graduated from Darul Uloom in 1331 [[Hijri year|A.H]].<ref name="mahbub" /> During [[Khilafat Movement]], Gul was made the president of Khilafat Committee in Deoband.<ref name="mahbub">{{cite book |last1=Rizwi |first1=Syed Mehboob |translator=Murtaz Husain F Quraishi |authorlink1=Syed Mehboob Rizwi |title= Tārīkh Darul Uloom Deoband<br />
|trans-title= History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband |volume = 2 |pages = 83–84 |publisher=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] |location=[[Deoband]] |edition=1981}}</ref> He was a close companion of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi and was imprisoned along with him in Malta for his role in the [[Silk Letter Movement]].<ref name="asiradrawi">{{cite book |author1=Asir Adrawi |authorlink1=Asir Adrawi |title=Hazrat Shaykh al-Hind: Hayāt awr Karname |trans-title =Shaykh al-Hind: Life and works |publisher=Shaykh al-Hind Academy, [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] |location=[[Deoband]] |page=178 |edition=April 2012 |language=Urdu}}</ref><br />
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He served as a teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband<ref name="asir">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=[[Asir Adrawi]]|chapter=Mawlāna Uzair Gul Peshawari|pages= 195–196|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Moallifeen |language=Urdu |edition = 2 April 2016}}</ref> and before [[World War II]], he was appointed as a head-teacher in Madrasa Rahmania in [[Roorkee]].<ref name="mahbub" /><br />
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In 1945, Gul moved to his native place in Peshawar along-with his English wife Beatrice Cooke.<ref name="john" /><br />
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Gul died on 17 November 1989.<ref name="zahid">{{cite journal |author1=Zahidur Rashidi |title=Hadhrat Mawlana Uzair Gul |journal=Monthly Al-Sharia |date=December 1989 |url=http://zahidrashdi.org/1015 |accessdate=18 August 2020 |language=Urdu}}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
Gul's first wife was a daughter of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi's niece.<ref name="asiran" /><ref name="asir" /> During his stay at Roorkee, he married a new Muslim English woman named Beatrice Cooke.<ref name="asir" /><ref name="mahbub" /><ref name="john">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FovUDwAAQBAJ&q=uzair+gul&pg=PT213 |accessdate=18 August 2020|title=A Talib's Tale: The Life and Times of a Pashtoon Englishman|isbn=9789353058029|last1=Butt|first1=John|authorlink=John Mohammed Butt|date=16 March 2020}}</ref> Gul's second wife Cooke also wrote an English translation of Quran which remains unpublished.<ref name="asiran" /><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
* At [[University of Peshawar]], Murad Ali Shah wrote a [[Master of Arts]] thesis entitled ''Mawlāna Uzair Gul-The Prisoner of Malta''.<ref name = "thesis">{{Citation | title =PAN-ISLAMISM AND THE NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE OF BRITISH INDIA (1897-1918)|author = Dr. Abdul RAUF | page = 37 | url = http://sam.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Abdul-Rauf.pdf | accessdate = 18 August 2020}}</ref><br />
* At [[University of Islamabad]], Farzana Nisar wrote a [[Master of Philosophy]] thesis entitled ''Mawlāna Uzair Gul (Aseer-i-Malta): His Life and Achievements''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Maulana Uzair Gul (Aseer-i-Malta): his life and achievements (1886-1989) |url=http://opac.iiu.edu.pk:64445/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=72437 |website=opac.iiu.edu.pk |publisher=[[University of Islamabad]] |accessdate=18 August 2020}}</ref><br />
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