Mufti Mahmud

Deobandi movement

Key figures

Qasim Nanotvi · Rashid Gangohi Husain Madani · Mehmud Hasan Shabbir Usmani · Ashraf Ali Thanwi Anwar Kashmiri · Ilyas Kandhlawi Ubaidullah Sindhi · Taqi Usmani

Notable 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 Africa

Movements

Tablighi Jamaat Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Sipah-e-Sahaba Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Taliban

Maulana Mufti Mahmud (Pashto: مولانا مفتى محمود), an ethnic Marwat Pashtun hailing from Abdul Khel, was born in January 1919 in Paniala, Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, province of Pakistan. He was an Islamic scholar and political activist. Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman is his son and was the leader of opposition in Pakistan.

He fought in the Indian Independence Movement during the 1940s. He was a close ally of the Indian National Congress at the time and opposed the demand for Pakistan. Even after the Partition of India, when he moved to Pakistan, he remained a bitter enemy of the Muslim League.

After the 1970 General Elections, he became the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam founded by Moulana Shabir Ahmed Usmani. And into a coalition with the National Awami Party & Pakistan Peoples Party. On March 1, 1972, he was elected as the Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He along with his cabinet resigned in protest at the dismissal of the NAP - JUI (F) coalition government in Balochistan on 14 February 1973.

He supported Afghan-Jihad against USSR (see also Soviet-Afghan War).

He died on 14 October 1980. He was buried in Abdul Khel, Paniala, his home town.

Political offices
Preceded by Sardar Bahadur Khan	Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 1972 – 1973	Succeeded by Inayatullah Gandapur
Party political offices
Preceded by Maulana Abdullah Darkhawasti	Ameer of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam 1968 – 1980	Succeeded by Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman

Persondata
Name	Mahmud, Mufti
Alternative names
Short description	Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Date of birth	January 1919
Place of birth	Paniala, Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Date of death	14 October 1980
Place of death