Muhammad Yūsuf Kandhalawī

Muhammad Yūsuf Kandhalawī (born March 20, 1917 in Kandhala ; died April 2, 1965 ) was an Indian Islamic scholar and from 1943 to 1965 Amir (leader) of the Tablighi Jamaat .

Muhammad Yūsuf Kandhalawī was the son of the founder of the Islamic missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat, Muhammad Ilyas Kandhalawi . He received his basic training in Delhi , later learned at the Mazahir al'ulum in Saharanpur , especially hadith studies and the like. a. also with his cousin Muhammad Zakarīyā al-Kāndahlawī , who was the leading head behind the religious program of the Tablighi Jammat. In 1938 he went on a pilgrimage with his father and was involved in the Tablighi Jammat from that time on. After the death of his father in 1943, he became the new Amir of the Tablighi Jammat. Jan-Peter Hartung names two characteristics of his term of office: 1. The organizational structure of the Tablighi was standardized and 2. After 1947 the Tablighi became increasingly transnationally oriented towards a mass movement. He died early and unexpectedly during a trip to Lahore for the Tablighi in 1965. He was buried next to his father in Delhi.

literature

• Jan-Peter Hartung: Many ways and one goal Life and work of Sayyid Abu l-Hasan Ali al-Hasani Nadwi (1914–1999)