Biography shahabuddin ghori chariah
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Q: How did you get interested in studying the issue of caste among Muslims in India?
A: I komma from a small village in Sitamarhi, in Bihar. I completed my high school education in Maunath Bhanjan in eastern Uttar Pradesh and then went to the Jamiat ul-Falah madrasa in Bilariyaganj, in Azamgarh, for higher Islamic studies. I completed the fazilat course in , and joined the Aligarh Muslim University for my graduation and then did my MA from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In , when I was the student at the Jamiat ul-Falah, the Jamaat-i- Islami Hind organised an ‘Introduction to the Quran’ week all over Uttar Pradesh, as part of which Jamaat leaders visited non-Muslim loc
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Hazrat Maulana Syed Abul Hassan Ali Nadwi sahab (rah) has dedicated the last chapter of his masterpiece Tareekh Dawat o Azeemat Vol II (Saviours of Islamic Spirit Vol. II ) to Hazrat Makhdum Shaikh Sharafuddin Yahya Maneri (rah).
Saviours of Islamic Spirit Vol II , P: courtesy of dr76 of SF
Popularly known as Makhdum ul Mulk Bihari, his name was Ahmed ibn Shaikh yahya, title Sharfuddin , and he claimed his descent from one of the prophets Uncles, Zubair ibn Abdul Muttalib (radh) , belonging to the Hashimite clan of Quraish of Mecca. His grandfather, Maulana Muhammed Tajuddin (rah) , a contemporary of shabuddin ghori , was a Celebrated Scholar and mystic who had emigrated to Manyar in Bihar ( the town is presently known as Maner) from the town of Al Khalil in Syria. ( Al Khalil , drawing its name from the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) who is stated to be buried there , is at a distance of about 24 kilometers from Jerusalem. The town now forms a part of Jordan).
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Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhD
In the words of Muhammed Iqbal, the philosopher-poet of India-Pakistan, Islam is like a balloon. When it is squeezed in one direction, it bulges out in another. Within a hundred years after Genghis Khan, Islam conquered the conquerors. The Mongols who had destroyed Bukhara and Baghdad themselves became the standard bearers of the new faith. The westward thrust of Islam carried it into Europe. To the east, it put down new roots in India and Indonesia. The center of gravity of the Islamic world shifted from Cairo and Damascus to Lahore and Kuala Lumpur.
After the conquest of Sindh by Muhammed bin Qasim in , the borders between the Baghdad Caliphate and India were relatively stable for years. Islam made limited inroads into the subcontinent along the coast of Malabar in southern India and in southern Pakistan. Political Islam had reached equilibrium and was preoccupied as much with internal debates as with external threats. For almost year