Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi

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Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi (* 1936 - April 4, 2002 ) was an Indian Islamic law scholar who was one of the leading Muslim figures in his country.

life and work

Qasmi was born in 1936. He studied at the Darul Uloom in Deoband . He was a Sharia judge (religious Islamic judge) in Bihar and Orissa . In 1962 he was appointed to the office of judge at the Imarat-e-Sharia in Phulwar-i Sharif in Patna . He was a founding member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), founded in 1972, and its president since 2000 (second president was Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi ). He was also a founding member of the All India Milli Council, founded in 1992 .

Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi was active in various institutions of Islamic scholarship. In 1989 he founded the Islamic Fiqh Academy ( Engl. Islamic Fiqh Academy , IFA) based in Delhi, one of the leading Islamic Fiqh organizations in India. He was their Secretary General .

At first, the IFA, co-founded by Qasmi and Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, was understood as an Indian offshoot of the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Islamic World League (MWL), as Nadwi was also a founding member of the Law Academy of the Islamic World League, which was founded in Mecca in 1974 . Constanze Weigl points out that the overall structure of the IFA and the institutional network existing within the academy of AIMPLB, the Imarat-e-Sharia for Bihar , Jharkhand , Orissa and West Bengal , the Darul Uloom in Deoband and other centers distributed in South Asia are more Islamic Scholarship illustrates the complexity of the South Asian scholarly culture. In 2001 Hazrat Maulana Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi received the 2nd Shah Waliullah Award ( Islamic Fiqh ).

Qasmi died on April 4, 2002 after a long illness. A Qazi Mujahidul Islam Memorial Lecture was set up in his honor .

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ DNB 1042013756 - accessed on April 4, 2019
  2. ↑ Constanze Weigl: The Islamic Fiqh Academy India and its legal decisions on cloning . 2006 - suedasien.info
  3. ↑ Official website
  4. ↑ cf. Constanze Weigl: The Islamic Fiqh Academy India and its legal decisions on cloning . 2006 - suedasien.info (with today's headquarters in Jeddah, Weigl states 1973 as the year of foundation)
  5. ↑ Constanze Weigl: The Islamic Fiqh Academy India and its legal decisions on cloning . 2006 - suedasien.info
  6. ↑ milligazette.com: Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi remembered (M Sulaiman Akhtar Farooqui, Mumbai)
  7. ↑ cf. iosworld.org: Second Qazi Mujahidul Islam memorial lecture

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SURNAME Qasmi, Qazi Mujahidul Islam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mujahidul Islam Qasmi; Mujāhidulislām Qāsimī; Mujahidul Islam Qasmi; Mujāhidulislām Qāsimī; Mujahidul Islam Qasmi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian Islamic lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2002