Zar Wali Khan

Muhammad Zar Wali Khan is a Deobandi Islamic scholar from Pakistan.^[1] He is the founder of the Jamia Arabia Ahsan-ul-Uloom seminary located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh), hadith, tafsir^[2] and tasawwuf. His seminary is notable for being one of the first Deobandi institutions to offer the takhassus (PhD equivalent degree leading to mufti status) degree program to women.

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Deobandi movement
Ideology and influences
Dars-i Nizami Maturidi theology Hanafi fiqh
Founders and key figures
Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi. Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Imdadullah Muhajir Makki Mahmud al-Hasan Husain Ahmad Madani Ashraf Ali Thanwi Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri Anwar Shah Kashmiri Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi
Notable institutions
Darul ulooms and madrasas Deoband Mazahir Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Dabhel Hathazari Madrassah Ashrafia Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh Karachi Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia Bury In'aamiyyah List of Deobandi universities
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Nizamuddin Raiwind Dhaka Dewsbury Taj-ul-Masajid Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta Jamek Mosque
Associated organizations
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Tablighi Jamaat Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan Taliban Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Lashkar-e-Jhangvi All India Muslim Personal Law Board Islamic Fiqh Academy, India Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh

Work

Shaikh al-Hadith wa al-Tafseer Mawlana Shaykh Mufti Zar Wali Khan laid the foundation of an Islamic institution in 1398 Hijra (Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom). The objectives and aims of that Jamiah is to formulate intellectual and endowed scholars who can guide the Muslim Ummah on the Deobandi pathway.

Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom provides complete Islamic education that includes tafsir, hadith, fiqh, mantiq, Arabic literature and more free of expenditure. Other than Knowledge of Islam, Hifz and Nazrah Quran, Darjah-e-I'dadiyah i.e. (equivalent to eighth grade books including books with beginners Arabic, Persian and other Islamic books) are also taught.

In his jamiah there is an exceptional layout of Darjaat-at-Takhasusat, i.e. (Ph.D. Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom also has a Dar-Ul-Iftah in which queries related to day-to-day problems are resolved in the illumination of Islam with broad research and investigation under the management of Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan sahib. During usual vacations, outstanding planning for Daura-e-Tafseer-Ul-Quran is organized in which men and women (with pardah) from all line of work attend regularly.^[3]

Inspiration from Anwar Shah al-Kashmiri

Mufti Zar Wali Khan is in the students' tree of Imam al-Asr Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri and highly inspired by his expertise in Islamic education. He is so much inspired by him that he named his own son after him.^[4]

References

https://www.facebook.com/jamia.ahsan

External links

• Jamia Arabia Ahsan-ul-Uloom

See also

• Ebrahim Desai
• Muhammad Taqi Usmani
• Allama Nurul Islam Olipuri
• Sheikhul Hadith Allama Azizul Hoque
• Faqihul Millat Mufti Abdur Rahman