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|religion= [[Islam]] | |religion = [[Islam]] | ||
|honorific_prefix = | |honorific_prefix = [[Maulana]] | ||
|name = Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi | |name = Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi | ||
|title = | |title = | ||
|birth_date = 1908 | |image = Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi.jpg | ||
|birth_place = [[Agra]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], [[British Raj|British India]] | |birth_date = 1908 | ||
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1985|05|24|1908}} | |birth_place = [[Agra]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], [[British Raj|British India]] | ||
|death_place = [[Karachi | |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1985|05|24|1908}} | ||
|father = | |death_place = [[Karachi, Sindh]], Pakistan | ||
|region = | |father = | ||
|region = India | |||
|denomination = [[Sunni]] | |denomination = [[Sunni]] | ||
|jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]] | |jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]] | ||
|movement = [[Deobandi]] | |movement = [[Deobandi]] | ||
|main_interests = [[Urdu literature]], [[ | |main_interests = [[Urdu literature]], [[history]], [[Seerah]] | ||
|notable_works = ''Fehm-e-Quran'', ''Ghulaman-e-Islam'', ''Siddiq-e-Akbar'', ''Wahi Ilahi'' | |notable_works = ''Fehm-e-Quran'', ''Ghulaman-e-Islam'', ''Siddiq-e-Akbar'', ''Wahi Ilahi'' | ||
|alma_mater = [[Madrasa Shahi, Moradabad]], [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], [[ | |alma_mater = [[Madrasa Shahi, Moradabad]], [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], [[Oriental College, Lahore]], [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] | ||
|influences = [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]] | |influences = [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]] | ||
|founder = [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] | |founder = [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi''' (1908 – 24 May 1985) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] | '''Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi''' (1908 – 24 May 1985) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Islamic scholar and an [[Urdu]]-language author who co-founded the [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]]. He served as the dean of the [[Faculty of Theology, Aligarh Muslim University|Faculty of Theology]] in Aligarh Muslim University. | ||
Akbarabadi was an alumnus of [[Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi]], [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] and the [[Oriental College, Lahore]]. He taught at [[Jamia Islamia Talimuddin]], Madrassa-e-Aalia, Fatehpuri, [[Aligarh Muslim University]], [[University of Calicut]] and the [[McGill University]]. He authored books including ''Fehm-e-Quran'', ''Ghulaman-e-Islam'', ''Siddiq-e-Akbar'' and ''Musalmano Ka Urooj-o-Zawal''. His students include [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] and [[Mushir-ul-Haq]]. | |||
==Birth and education== | ==Birth and education== | ||
Saeed Akbarabadi was born in the [[colonial India]]n city of [[Agra]] in 1908.<ref name="history">{{cite book |author1=[[Syed Mehboob Rizwi]] |translator=Prof. Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi |title=History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband (Volume 2) |publisher=Idara-e-Ehtemam, [[Darul Uloom Deoband|Dar al-Ulum Deoband]] |page=112|edition=1981 |url=https://archive.org/download/2VolumeBookOnTheHistoryOfDarAlUlumDeoband/HistoryOfTheDarulUloomDeoband-VolumeTwo1981.pdf |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="nida0">{{cite book |author1=Mufti Ubaid Anwar Shah Qaiser |title=Nida'e Darul Uloom Waqf |publisher=[[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]] |pages=49–53 |edition=Rabi-ut-Thaani, 1438|chapter=Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Ek Sahib-e-Qalam Shakhsiyat |language=ur}}</ref> He studied his primary classes at home, then he studied in [[Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi]], and later graduated from the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. There he studied under [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]], [[Shabbir Ahmad Usmani]] and Ibrahim Balyawi.<ref name="nida0"/> He then undertook specialist courses at [[ | Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi was born in the [[colonial India]]n city of [[Agra]] in 1908.<ref name="history">{{cite book |author1=[[Syed Mehboob Rizwi]] |translator=Prof. Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi |title=History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband (Volume 2) |publisher=Idara-e-Ehtemam, [[Darul Uloom Deoband|Dar al-Ulum Deoband]] |page=112|edition=1981 |url=https://archive.org/download/2VolumeBookOnTheHistoryOfDarAlUlumDeoband/HistoryOfTheDarulUloomDeoband-VolumeTwo1981.pdf |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="nida0">{{cite book |author1=Mufti Ubaid Anwar Shah Qaiser |title=Nida'e Darul Uloom Waqf |publisher=[[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]] |pages=49–53 |edition=Rabi-ut-Thaani, 1438|chapter=Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Ek Sahib-e-Qalam Shakhsiyat |language=ur}}</ref> He studied his primary classes at home, then he studied in [[Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi]], and later graduated from the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. There he studied under [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]], [[Shabbir Ahmad Usmani]] and [[Ibrahim Balyawi]].<ref name="nida0"/> He then undertook specialist courses at [[Oriental College, Lahore]]. During the period, Akbarabadi was appointed as a teacher of oriental languages in Madrasa-e-Aaliya, Fatehpuri. He gained a [[Master of Arts]] degree in Arabic from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]].<ref name="history" /> | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
After completing studies at [[ | After completing studies at [[Oriental College, Lahore]], Akbarabadi taught at [[Jamia Islamia Talimuddin, Dabhel]]. He then taught oriental languages in Madrassa-e-Aalia, Fatehpuri. After completing his [[Master of Arts|M.A]] from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]], he became a lecturer in the same college. In the meantime [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] (Former President of Pakistan) became his student.<ref name="nida0"/> In 1938, Akbarabadi established [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] along with [[Atiqur Rahman Usmani]], [[Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi]] and [[Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Nayab Hasan Qasmi |title=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] Ka Sahafati ManzarNama |publisher=Idara Tehqeeq-e-Islami, [[Deoband]] |pages=176, 198}}</ref> He was offered principalship of the [[Aliah University|Madrasa Alia]], in Calcutta, of which he took the charge on 2 February 1949.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Akbarabadi |first1=Saeed Ahmad |title=نظرات |journal=Burhan |date=February 1949 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=2–4 |url=https://articles.rasailojaraid.com/Resources/ArticleFiles/20/1868/27497.pdf |access-date=12 February 2023 |publisher=[[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] |language=ur}}</ref> | ||
In 1958, Akbarabadi became the | In 1958, Akbarabadi became the dean of the Faculty of Theology in the [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. He transformed a weak faculty and introduced graduate teaching and a doctoral programme.<ref name="history" /> He supervised his (and the faculty's) first doctoral thesis, on [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]], which was later published by [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in 1974.<ref name="nida0" /> | ||
During | During 1961 and 1963, Akbarabadi was invited by [[Wilfred Cantwell Smith]] to be a visiting professor in the Institute of Islamic Studies at the [[McGill University]] in Canada.{{Sfn|Haq|2012|pp=21-22}} His students at the institute included [[Mushir-ul-Haq]], the former vice-chancellor of the [[University of Kashmir]].{{Sfn|Haq|2012|p=20}} He retired from the AMU in 1972.{{Sfn|Haq|2012|p=25}} | ||
After that, he was a | After that, he was a visiting professor at the [[University of Calicut]] and then at [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] then made him director of its new research department, [[Shaikhul Hind Academy]], a post he held from 25 December 1982 until his death on 24 May 1985.{{Sfn|Haq|2012|p=18}} | ||
==Literary works== | ==Literary works== | ||
He began his writing journey with ''[[Da'watul Haq]]''.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Qamruzzaman |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/57789 |title=Maulavi Wahiduzzaman Karanvi his contribution to Arabic language and literature in India |publisher=Aligarh Muslim University |year=2001 |page=112 |location=India |language=ar |hdl=10603/57789 |degree=PhD}}</ref> His works include:<ref>{{cite web |title=Profile of Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi on WorldCat |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84031364/ |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |access-date=2 January 2021}}</ref> | |||
*''Al-riq fi al-Islam'' | *''Al-riq fi al-Islam'' | ||
*''Fehm-e-Quran'' | *''Fehm-e-Quran''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khan |first1=Abdul Waris |url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebook-detail/islami-uloom-mein-nadwat-ul-musannifin-ki-khidmaat-ek-mutala-abdul-waris-khan-ebooks |title=Islāmi Uloom mai Nadwatul Musannifeen ki Khidmāt: Ek mutāla |date=1999 |publisher=Islamic Book Foundation |location=New Delhi |pages=40–42 |trans-title=The contribution of Nadwatul Musannifeen in Islamic studies: A study}}</ref> | ||
*''Ghulaman-e-Islam'' | *''Ghulaman-e-Islam'' | ||
* ''Hindustan ki shar'i haisiyat'' | * ''Hindustan ki shar'i haisiyat'' | ||
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*''Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi aur unke Naaqid'' | *''Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi aur unke Naaqid'' | ||
*''Uthman Zinnurayn'' | *''Uthman Zinnurayn'' | ||
*''Wahi Ilahi'' | *''Wahi Ilahi''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khan |first1=Abdul Waris |url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebook-detail/islami-uloom-mein-nadwat-ul-musannifin-ki-khidmaat-ek-mutala-abdul-waris-khan-ebooks |title=Islāmi Uloom mai Nadwatul Musannifeen ki Khidmāt: Ek mutāla |date=1999 |publisher=Islamic Book Foundation |location=New Delhi |pages=44–45|trans-title=The contribution of Nadwatul Musannifeen in Islamic studies: A study}}</ref> | ||
==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||
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{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
===Bibliography=== | |||
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{{cite book |last1=Haq |first1=Mushirul |author1-link=Mushir-ul-Haq |year = 2012 |title=معاصر شخصیات |trans-title= Contemporary Personalities |publisher=Maktaba Jamia |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-7587-831-0 |pages=18–26 |language=ur |chapter=Mawlānā Saeed Aḥmad Akbarābādī}} | |||
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== Further reading == | |||
* {{cite book|last=Qasmi|first=Ishtiaque Ahmad|author-link=Ishtiaque Ahmad Qasmi|title=Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi Ka Zikr-e-Jamīl|trans-title=A mention of Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarbadi|date=2023|publisher=Shaikhul Hind Academy|location=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]]|language=ur}} | |||
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Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi | |
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| File:Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi.jpg | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1908 |
| Died | 24 May 1985 (aged 76–77) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Religion | Islam |
| Region | India |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Main interest(s) | Urdu literature, history, Seerah |
| Notable work(s) | Fehm-e-Quran, Ghulaman-e-Islam, Siddiq-e-Akbar, Wahi Ilahi |
| Alma mater | Madrasa Shahi, Moradabad, Darul Uloom Deoband, Oriental College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College, Delhi |
| Founder of | Nadwatul Musannifeen |
| Muslim leader | |
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Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908 – 24 May 1985) was an Indian Islamic scholar and an Urdu-language author who co-founded the Nadwatul Musannifeen. He served as the dean of the Faculty of Theology in Aligarh Muslim University.
Akbarabadi was an alumnus of Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi, Darul Uloom Deoband, St. Stephen's College, Delhi and the Oriental College, Lahore. He taught at Jamia Islamia Talimuddin, Madrassa-e-Aalia, Fatehpuri, Aligarh Muslim University, University of Calicut and the McGill University. He authored books including Fehm-e-Quran, Ghulaman-e-Islam, Siddiq-e-Akbar and Musalmano Ka Urooj-o-Zawal. His students include Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and Mushir-ul-Haq.
Birth and education[edit | edit source]
Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi was born in the colonial Indian city of Agra in 1908.[1][2] He studied his primary classes at home, then he studied in Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi, and later graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband. There he studied under Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Ibrahim Balyawi.[2] He then undertook specialist courses at Oriental College, Lahore. During the period, Akbarabadi was appointed as a teacher of oriental languages in Madrasa-e-Aaliya, Fatehpuri. He gained a Master of Arts degree in Arabic from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.[1]
Career[edit | edit source]
After completing studies at Oriental College, Lahore, Akbarabadi taught at Jamia Islamia Talimuddin, Dabhel. He then taught oriental languages in Madrassa-e-Aalia, Fatehpuri. After completing his M.A from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, he became a lecturer in the same college. In the meantime Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Former President of Pakistan) became his student.[2] In 1938, Akbarabadi established Nadwatul Musannifeen along with Atiqur Rahman Usmani, Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi and Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi.[3] He was offered principalship of the Madrasa Alia, in Calcutta, of which he took the charge on 2 February 1949.[4]
In 1958, Akbarabadi became the dean of the Faculty of Theology in the Aligarh Muslim University. He transformed a weak faculty and introduced graduate teaching and a doctoral programme.[1] He supervised his (and the faculty's) first doctoral thesis, on Anwar Shah Kashmiri, which was later published by Aligarh Muslim University in 1974.[2]
During 1961 and 1963, Akbarabadi was invited by Wilfred Cantwell Smith to be a visiting professor in the Institute of Islamic Studies at the McGill University in Canada.[5] His students at the institute included Mushir-ul-Haq, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Kashmir.[6] He retired from the AMU in 1972.[7]
After that, he was a visiting professor at the University of Calicut and then at Aligarh Muslim University. Darul Uloom Deoband then made him director of its new research department, Shaikhul Hind Academy, a post he held from 25 December 1982 until his death on 24 May 1985.[8]
Literary works[edit | edit source]
He began his writing journey with Da'watul Haq.[9] His works include:[10]
- Al-riq fi al-Islam
- Fehm-e-Quran[11]
- Ghulaman-e-Islam
- Hindustan ki shar'i haisiyat
- Hind Pak̄istān kī taḥrīk-i āzādī aur ʻulamāʼe ḥaqq kā siyāsī muʼaqqaf
- K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i Iqbāl par ek naẓar
- Musalmano Ka Urooj-o-Zawal
- Siddiq-e-Akbar
- Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi aur unke Naaqid
- Uthman Zinnurayn
- Wahi Ilahi[12]
Legacy[edit | edit source]
Studies of Akbarabadi include:[2]
- Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Ahwaal-Aasaar by Dr Masood Alam Qasmi
- Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Hayat-o-Khidmat by Dr Qaiser Habeeb Hashmi
- Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi aur unki Adbi Khidmat by Miss Jahan Ara (Thesis submitted in Punjab University, Lahore).
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Syed Mehboob Rizwi. History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband (Volume 2) (PDF). Translated by Prof. Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi (1981 ed.). Idara-e-Ehtemam, Dar al-Ulum Deoband. p. 112. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Mufti Ubaid Anwar Shah Qaiser. "Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Ek Sahib-e-Qalam Shakhsiyat". Nida'e Darul Uloom Waqf (in اردو) (Rabi-ut-Thaani, 1438 ed.). Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband. pp. 49–53.
- ↑ Nayab Hasan Qasmi. Darul Uloom Deoband Ka Sahafati ManzarNama. Idara Tehqeeq-e-Islami, Deoband. pp. 176, 198.
- ↑ Akbarabadi, Saeed Ahmad (February 1949). "نظرات" (PDF). Burhan (in اردو). 2 (2). Nadwatul Musannifeen: 2–4. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ Haq 2012, pp. 21-22.
- ↑ Haq 2012, p. 20.
- ↑ Haq 2012, p. 25.
- ↑ Haq 2012, p. 18.
- ↑ Qamruzzaman (2001). Maulavi Wahiduzzaman Karanvi his contribution to Arabic language and literature in India (PhD thesis) (in العربية). India: Aligarh Muslim University. p. 112. hdl:10603/57789.
- ↑ "Profile of Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi on WorldCat". WorldCat. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ↑ Khan, Abdul Waris (1999). Islāmi Uloom mai Nadwatul Musannifeen ki Khidmāt: Ek mutāla [The contribution of Nadwatul Musannifeen in Islamic studies: A study]. New Delhi: Islamic Book Foundation. pp. 40–42.
- ↑ Khan, Abdul Waris (1999). Islāmi Uloom mai Nadwatul Musannifeen ki Khidmāt: Ek mutāla [The contribution of Nadwatul Musannifeen in Islamic studies: A study]. New Delhi: Islamic Book Foundation. pp. 44–45.
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
Haq, Mushirul (2012). "Mawlānā Saeed Aḥmad Akbarābādī". معاصر شخصیات [Contemporary Personalities] (in اردو). New Delhi: Maktaba Jamia. pp. 18–26. ISBN 978-81-7587-831-0.
Further reading[edit | edit source]
- Qasmi, Ishtiaque Ahmad (2023). Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi Ka Zikr-e-Jamīl [A mention of Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarbadi] (in اردو). Darul Uloom Deoband: Shaikhul Hind Academy.