Khalid Saifullah Rahmani
Mufti, Mawlāna Khalid Saifullah Rahmani | |
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Acting General Secretary of All India Muslim Personal Law Board | |
Assumed office 2021 | |
Preceded by | Wali Rahmani |
General Secretary of Islamic Fiqh Academy, India | |
Personal | |
Born | November 1956 Darbhanga, Bihar, India |
Religion | Islam |
Nationality | Indian |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
Main interest(s) | Islamic Jurisprudence |
Alma mater | , Darul Uloom Deoband |
Relatives | Mujahidul Islam Qasmi (uncle) |
Senior posting | |
Website | khalidrahmani |
Khalid Saifullah Rahmani (born November 1956) is an Indian Muslim scholar, author and jurist who serves as the acting general secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. He is the general secretary of Islamic Fiqh Academy of India. He has authored books including The Islamic Jurisprudence: Introduction and Codification and The Book of Fatāwa.
Biography[]
Khalid Saifullah Rahmani was born in November 1956.[1] He is the nephew of Islamic scholar and jurist, Mujahidul Islam Qasmi.[1] He received his primary education at home and studied at Madrasa Qasimul Uloom Hussainia for two years. He graduated from Jamia Rahmani, in Munger and studied "dawra-e-hadith" (the hadith class of Dars-e-Nizami) again at Darul Uloom Deoband, and graduated from there in 1395 AH.[2] He later specialized in Islamic law and jurisprudence at Amarat-e-Sharia, Patna. His teachers include Anzar Shah Kashmiri, Mahmud Hasan Gangohi and Muhammad Salim Qasmi. Rahmani also benefitted from his uncle Mujahidul Islam Qasmi.[2]
In 1398 AH, Rahmani started to teach at Madrasa Sabeelus-Salam, where he was appointed head teacher in 1399 AH. He taught there for 22 years and went on to establish Al-Mahd al-Aali al-Islami, in Hyderabad.[3] He has also helped to found institutions such as Sabilul Falaah and Madrasa al-Falihat in Darbhanga; Madrasa Nurul Uloom, in Andhra Pradesh and Madrasa Talimul Quran lil-Banat in Karnataka.[4]
Rahmani is a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board's Legal Council and the general secretary of Islamic Fiqh Academy.[4] He is a regular columnist of the Friday edition of Munsif, and editor of Three Monthly Behs-o-Nazar, an Islamic juristic journal that Mujahidul Islam Qasmi had started.[5] In 2021, he was appointed interim general secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board following Wali Rahmani's death.[6]
Literary works[]
Rahmani's works include:[7]
- Aasaan Tafsir-e-Quran Majid (A commentary on the Quran)
- Fiqh-e-Islāmi: Tadwīn-o-Ta'āruf (The Islamic Jurisprudence: Introduction and Codification)
- Islām ka nizām ushr-o-zakāt
- Khawātīn ke māli huqūq: Shariat-e-Islāmi ki nazar mai
- Kitāb al-Fatāwa (The Book of the Fatāwa)
- Qāmus al-Fiqh
- Qur'ān: Ek ilhāmi kitāb
References[]
Citations[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ghāzi Qāsmi & Haseeb Qāsmi 2011, p. 395.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ghāzi Qāsmi & Haseeb Qāsmi 2011, p. 396.
- ^ Ghāzi Qāsmi & Haseeb Qāsmi 2011, p. 398.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ghāzi Qāsmi & Haseeb Qāsmi 2011, p. 404.
- ^ Ghāzi Qāsmi & Haseeb Qāsmi 2011, p. 406.
- ^ "Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani is the new acting general secretary of Muslim Board". muslimmirror.com. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ Ghāzi Qāsmi & Haseeb Qāsmi 2011, p. 409.
Bibliography[]
- Ghāzi Qāsmi, Aftāb; Haseeb Qāsmi, Abdul (February 2011). "Khalid Saifullah Rahmani". Fuzala-e-Deoband Ki Fiqhi Khidmat [Services of the Graduates of Deoband in Islamic Jurisprudence] (in Urdu). Deoband: Kutub Khana Naimia. pp. 395–410.
External links[]
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- Living people
- Darul Uloom Deoband alumni
- Founders of Indian schools and colleges
- Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
- Indian muftis
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