Maulana Muhammad Ali

:"This page is about Maulana Muhammad Ali, the religious scholar belonging to the "Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam". for other people named Muhammad Ali: see Muhammad Ali (disambiguation)"

Maulana Muhammad Ali (1874-1951) Amir (1914-1951)( _ar. مولانا محمد على)Muhammad Ali ( _ar. محمد على) was born in 1874 in Punjab, India.

History

Muhammad Ali obtained an (M.A.) English and (Ll. B.) Law in 1899. He joined the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1897 and devoted his life to the service of this movement in 1900. Although he considered the movement to be part of Islam, others considered it outside the fold of Islam.

In 1902 "Maulana Muhammad Ali" became the editor of the Review of Religions, one of the first Islamic journals in English. When Mirza Ghulam Ahmad established the "Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya" (a body to govern the Ahmadiyya Movement) in 1905, he appointed "Maulana Muhammad Ali" as the Secretary of its executive council. (The successor to this body was Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam of Lahore.) At the time of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's death in 1908, he was succeeded by Maulana Hakim Noor-ud-Din, Khalifatul Masih I., who became Head of the Ahmadiyya Movement.

In March 1914, when Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din died, there was a split in the movement, which led to a section of Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya including "Maulana Muhammad Ali" and other senior members of the Ahmadiyya Movement relocating from Qadian to Lahore. They became known as Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam (Ahmadiyya Association for the Propagation of Islam) or in short as the 'Lahori Party'.

"Maulana Muhammad Ali" led this movement after its foundation in 1914, organising its world-wide missionary activities, and produced a vast amount of literature in English and Urdu. He translated the Qur'an with a commentary in both English and Urdu. His writings in English include: The Religion of Islam, Muhammad The Prophet, A Manual of Hadith, The New World Order and Living Thoughts of the Prophet Muhammad. He died in 1951.

He was succeeded by Maulana Sadr-ud-Din.

Works

*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
year=1933
title=History and Doctrines of the Babi Movement
url=http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/historydoctrinesbabimovement/historydoctrinesbabimovement.shtml
location=Lahore, India
*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
year=1936
title=The Religion of Islam
url=http://www.aaiil.org/text/books/mali/religionislam/religionislammuhammadali.shtml
location=Lahore, Pakistan
*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
year=2002
title=The Holy Quran: Arabic text with English translation and Commentary
url=http://www.ahmadiyya.org/english-quran/index.htm
*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
title=Bayan-ul-Quran: Urdu translation with extensive commentary
url=http://aaiil.org/urdu/hq/pdf/holyquranpdf.shtml
*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
title=A Manual of Hadith
url=http://www.aaiil.org/text/books/mali/manualhadith/manualhadith.shtml
*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
title=Muhammad, The Prophet
url=http://www.aaiil.org/text/books/mali/muhammadtheprophet/muhammadtheprophet.shtml
*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
title=True Conception of the Ahmadiyya Movement
url=http://www.ahmadiyya.org/bookspdf/trueconc/conts.htm
*cite book
author=Maulana Muhammad Ali
title=The Split in the Ahmadiyya Movement
url=http://www.ahmadiyya.org/bookspdf/split/conts.htm

ee also

*Ahmadi
*Online Quran Project

Sources

*"A Mighty Striving," [http://www.ahmadiyya.org/books/m-kabir/ Detailed biography of Maulana Muhammad Ali]

External links

* [http://www.aaiil.org/text/books/bookmain.shtml#mma Selection of Maulana Muhammad Ali works available online]
* [http://www.ahmadiyya.org/books/list.htm List of Books by Maulana Muhammad Ali]
* [http://quran-online.net Online Quran Project] includes the translation of Maulana M. Ali.
* [http://arthurwendover.com/arthurs/koran/koran-muhammad-ali.html The Holy Qur'an] English Translation by Maulana Muhammad Ali.

References