Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī
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Ashraf 'Ali Thanwi (August 19, 1863 – July 4, 1943) was a prominent Indian Sunni Muslim scholar of the Deobandi school. Thanwi graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1884. After his graduation, Thanwi taught religious sciences in Kanpur for fourteen years. Over a short period of time, he acquired a reputable position as a religious scholar, of Sufism among other subjects. His teaching attracted numerous students and his research and publications became well known in Islamic institutions. During these years, he traveled to various cities and villages, delivering lectures in the hope of reforming people. Printed versions of his lectures and discourses would usually become available shortly after these tours. Until then, few Islamic scholars had had their lectures printed and widely circulated in their own lifetimes. The desire to reform the masses intensified in him during his stay at Kanpur. Ashraf Ali Thanwi was a prolific author. His literary contributions are in the order of eight hundred to one thousand in number, including sermons, discussions, discourses, treatises, and books. Thanwi died in Thāna Bhāwan on July 4, 1943. His funeral prayer was led by his nephew, Zafar Ahmad Uthmānī, and he was buried in the graveyard of 'Ishq-e-Bāzān.
Books
Malfūẓāt-i kamālāt-i Ashrafiyah
Sayings of Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī a noted 20th century religious scholar.
Ḥaz̤rat-i Thānvī ke uṣūl va z̤vābit̤
Teachings of Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī, Islamic scholar.
Shauq-i āk̲h̲rat
Commentary on Shauq-i āk̲h̲rat by noted religious scholer on the life after death according to teachings of Islam.
Amale Qurani
WE HAVE READ IT WE ARE MUSLIMS WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS BOOK
Javāhir-i Ḥakīmulummat
Collected notable sayings of renowned Muslim sufi scholar.
Islām aur siyāsat
On Islamic teachings about a democratic and political government in an Islamic country; includes an attachment on works of the author.
Makātīb-i Ḥakīmmulummat Maulānā Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī banām Ḥaz̤rat Maulānā Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʻ Ṣāḥib ..
Collected latters by a noted religious scholers of Deoband School for Muḥammad Shafīʻ.
Māl o daulat kī ahmiyyat aur is ke sharʻī aḥkām
On wealth distribution in a Muslim society by a renowned Sunni scholar from South Asia.
Ashrafī munājāt-i Maqbūl, maʻ iz̤āfāt-i jadīdah mufīdah
Islamic prayer-books and devotions.
K̲h̲airulifādat
Teachings of a Muslim religious scholar of the Deoband School of Islamic thought.
Iṣlāḥulmuslimīn
Reformative teachings of an eminent Muslim religious scholar of the Deoband school of Islamic theology.
Ḥifẓulīmān ʻan al-zaig̲h̲ va al-tug̲h̲yān ..
Polemic against the fundamental beliefs of the Bareilly School of Islamic theology.
Ashrafulmalfūẓāt
Islamic teachings of a religious scholar of the Deoband school of Islam.
Heavily Ornaments
Arguably One of the Most Comprehensive Manuals of Hanafi Fiqh Currently available in the English Language. The eminent work by Molana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, newly translated into contemporary English. This new edition also contains the references from the Qur’an, Hadith and other source books of Hanafi fiqh like the Hashiya of Ibn Abidin, Fatwa Hindiyya, and other fatawa works. This work was originally written in Urdu in the nineteenth century sub-continent, although initially aimed as a complete guide for women on the practice of Islam and managing of a household, it has been used by Men as well as Women of the Hanafi Madhab to account for a lack of such teaching material during that period. It has since to this very day, become an indispensable guide of innumerable households.
Da Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī da Aʻmāl-i Qurʼānī Puṣhto tarjamah Dam darūd
Koranic verses, Islamic pryaers, and charms to be used to avert evils and to bring good fortune.