- Maulana Ilyas
Infobox_Philosopher
region = Muslim Scholar
era = 20th Century
color = #B0C5DE
name = Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhelivi
birth = 1885
death = 1944
school_tradition =Sunni Islam
notable_ideas = Basic principles and practices ofIslam and Globalbrotherhood Founder of theTablighi Jamaat
influences =Sahaba,s dawah practice Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhelvi (ArB|محمد الياس كاندهلوي) was the founder of the Islamic revivalist movement
Tablighi Jamaat . Born in 1885 to a family of religious scholars, his early education was completed at home. He was then sent to study at the famous centre of Islamic learning,Darul Uloom Deoband , where he studied under several famousUlema . After completing his studies, he taught at variousmadrassas . In the late 1920s foundedTablighi Jamaat .Revival in Islamic History
Maulana Ilyas has not received much attention in the literature on modern Islamic movements. The available literature on Maulana Ilyas and his Tablighi movement was mostly in Urdu. Now the modern western libraries have the translation of all books in English, German, Bangoli, Hindi, Persian, Chinese, French, Arabic and Dutch.
Tabligi Jamaat
Tabligi Jamaat was founded in the late 1920s in the Mewat province of India. He didn't assign any name to this movement because his point of view was that, it is the duty of each and every Muslim of the world to give
dawah . The people of South Asia started calling the devotees "Tableeghi".See also
*
Haji Abdulwahab
*Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalawi External links
* [http://www.famousmuslims.com/Muhammad%20Ilyas.htm Biography of Maulana Muhammad Ilyas]
* http://salafipublications.com/sps/
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