- Mufti Muhammad Shafi
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Muhammad Shafi Full name Muhammad Shafi Born Deoband Era Modern era Region Islamic scholar School Deobandi Hanafi Main interests Shari'a, Hadith, Tafsir Influenced by- Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi
Influenced- Mufti Taqi Usmani, Mufti Rafi Usmani
Key figures Qasim Nanotvi · Rashid Gangohi
Husain Madani · Mehmud Hasan
Shabbir Usmani · Ashraf Ali Thanwi
Anwar Kashmiri · Ilyas Kandhlawi
Ubaidullah Sindhi · Taqi UsmaniNotable Institutions Darul Uloom Deoband, India
Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur, India
Hathazari Madrassah, Bangladesh
Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, India
Darul Uloom Karachi, Pakistan
Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Pakistan
Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan, Iran
Darul Uloom London, England
Darul Uloom New York, United States
Darul Uloom Canada
Madrasah In'aamiyyah, South AfricaMovements Tablighi Jamaat
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat
Sipah-e-Sahaba
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
TalibanMaulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘ (1896–1976) was a Hanafi Islamic scholar from India. During his life he served as the Deobandi grand Mufti of India and later Pakistan as well.
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Biography
He was born in 1896 and graduated from Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic university at the age of 22. He became a Mufti that same year. In 1943, he left Darul Uloom Deoband to participate in the Pakistan Movement and emigrated to the newly created state upon partition. He is the founder of Darul Uloom Karachi, an institute of Islamic Sciences in Pakistan.[1]
Works
He wrote around one hundred books explaining the Qur'an and interpreting Islamic law. His best-known and most widely translated work is the Ma'ariful Qur'an ("The Wisdom of the Qur'an"), which he finished (in Urdu) four years before his death.[2] This work, a commentary on the entire Qur'an, began life as a series of weekly lectures on Radio Pakistan than ran for ten years.[3]
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Categories:- Islamic religious leaders
- Pakistani scholars
- Deobandis
- Muslim scholars
- Islamic studies scholars
- Pakistani Sunni Muslims
- Jurisprudence academics
- 1976 deaths
- Deobandi
- 1896 births
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