Abdul Bari

Maulana Abdul Bari (* 1878 ; † 1926 ) was an Indian Islamic political leader, scholar and Sufi . He was one of the most famous scholars at the Farangi Mahall in Lucknow ( Lucknow ), Uttar Pradesh , India .

Bari was active in the caliphate movement as well as in religious organizations such as the Jamiat-e-ulama-e-Hind , of which he was the founding president.

In his opposition to Western education, he opened the Madrasa Nizamia school in Lucknow with his family in 1923 .

He was a member of the founding committee of Jamia Millia Islamia , Aligarh in the United Provinces , India (1920).

He preached the unity of Hindus and Muslims and was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi .

He is the author of over a hundred books.

literature

• Abdul Halim Sharar : Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture . 1975 (English translation by Colonel ES Harcourt and Fakhir Hussain; with a short biography; table of contents ( memento of September 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ))

• Gail Minault: The Khilafat Movement Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India (Studies in Oriental Culture) Columbia Univ. Press 1982 ( online excerpt )

• Salahuddin Ahmed: The Dictionary of Muslim Names . 1999 ( online excerpt )

• M. Naeem Qureshi: Pan-Islam in British Indian politics: a study of the Khilafat Movement, 1918-1924 . Brill 1999 ( online excerpt )

• Francis Robinson: Separatism among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims, 1860-1923 . Cambridge University Press 2008 ( online excerpt )

See also

• Islam in India ( The Contribution of Muslims to India's Liberation Movement )
• Non cooperation movement campaign
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Ali brothers (Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali)
• Dars-i Nizami
• Jamia Millia Islamia

Web links

• dailytimes.com.pk: Cam Diary: Lucknow's Farangi Mahal ( Memento from October 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• islamiccentreofindia: A Brief History About Farangi Mahal ( Memento from November 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

References and footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Daily Times - Cam Diary: Lucknow's Farangi Mahal ( Memento of October 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ jamiatulama.org: About us (Maulana Abdul Bari of Farangi Mahal)
3. ↑ "The institution survives to this day on a modest scale, but since the late forties has emphazised secular rather than religious instruction." (Abdul Halim Sharar, p. 241, note 97)
4. ↑ jmi.ac.in (Maulana Abdul Bari Farang Mahali)
5. ↑ Your correspondence was edited by Mahmood Jamal: Gandhi's Urdu Letters: The Maulana and the Mahatma . 2008 ( Book trade web link ( Memento from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ): "The letters give us a glimpse of a unique moment in the history of Indian Independence when the Non cooperation movement and Khilafat Movements worked in unison.")