ʿAbd al-Hayy al-Hasanī

Sayyid ʿAbd al-Hayy al-Hasanī (born December 22, 1869 in Raebareli , then North-Western Provinces , British India ; † February 3, 1923 ) was an Indian Islamic scholar and chairman of the  Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ  from 1915 to 1923. He was the father of the later chairmen ʿAbd al-ʿAlī al-Hasanī and Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi .

Life

al-Hasani was born the son of Sayyid Fahr ad-Din 'Hayali' (1840-1908) and Sayyida 'aziz an-Nisa' († 1888). His family came from a family of scholars who had been living in India since the 13th century and whose genealogy stated that they were descended from the grandson of the Prophet Hasan and thus from the Prophet Mohammed . His parents' families were related to one another. In childhood he was raised and tutored by members of his mother's family. These had connections to the Dar al ulum of the Deobandis and to Ahmad Barelwi . He later learned logic in Allahabad and fiqh in Fathpur . In 1884 he was taught by scholars of the Ahl-i hadith in Bhopal . He then studied in Kanpur with Ashraf Ali Thanwi and finally in Lucknow for five years with Amir Ali Lakhnawi and Altaf Husayn Panipati, among others. He left Lucknow and returned to Bhopal. There he learned from Husayn b. Mhusin al-Yamani . At that time he married his first wife Sayyida Zaynab. Here he also had contacts with important protagonists of the Ahl-i Hadith . In 1894 he criticized the Oriental College in Aligarh in an open letter to its founder on the accusation of an overly modernist orientation. He then returned to Lucknow and studied classical medicine until 1895. In 1904 he married his second wife Sayyida Kahyr an-Nisa '. He was initiated into the Sufi practices of Naqschbandiya and Qādirīya . Significant here was his relationship with Fadl ar-Rahman Ganj Muradabadi, whose Sufi network he owed contacts to the founders of the Nadwa al-ulamat. He eventually became an assistant to the first chairman of the Nadwa, Muhammad Ali Mongiri and a member of the traditionalist group within the Nadwa, which stood in contrast to the modernist group around Shibli Numani . In April 1915 he was elected chairman of the Nadwa, which from then on was finally oriented towards traditionalism. In 1923 he died unexpectedly after a short period of illness.

literature

• Jan-Peter Hartung: Many ways and one goal: Life and work of Sayyid Abu l-Hasan Ali a-Hasani Nadwi (1914–1999) , Ergon-Verlag Würzburg (2004), ISBN 3-89913-377-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gaborieau, Marc: Encyclopaedia of Islam . Ed .: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson. 3. Edition. Brill , 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-22545-9 , doi : 10.1163 / 1573-3912_ei3_COM_23899 (English).