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Amin Ahsan Islahi: A Brilliant Islamic Scholar
Author: Khurshid Ahmad Nadeem
Mawlana Amin Ahsan Islahi was born in 1904 in Bamhor, a by in district Azamgarh, U.P., India. After receiving early education at home, he joined Madrasat al-Islah at Sara’i Mir, a town in U.P., and remained a student there from 1922 to 1925. Islahi worked in Madinah, an influential Muslim newspaper appearing from Bijnor. In 1925, he joined Madrasat al-Islah as a teacher and continued to work in that capacity till 1943. During his stay there, he developed a close association with Hamid Uddin Farahi, a very profound and distinguished scholar of Islam, especially in the field of Qur’anic studies. During the period from 1925 to 1930, Islahi learned Tafsir and a number of other subjects from Farahi. After Farahi’s death in 1930, Islahi studied Hadith for several years under Mawlana Abdul Rehman Mubarakpuri, one of the most accomplished scholars of that subject in the sub-continent. In
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Mawlana Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904-97)
Author: Saleem Kiyani
The eminent Islamic scholar, Mawlana Amin Ahsan Islahi, 93, who died in Lahore, Pakistan, on 15 December 1997, will long be remembered for his lasting contribution to Qur’anic studies, especially for his approach based and evolved around the concept of order and coherence in the contents of the divine book. Historically, the idea of coherence in the Qur’an has always been present in the writings of various scholars, both old and new, but in modern times, it was Farahi, the renowned scholar and teacher of Islahi, who first made it the focus of his scholarly research, and wrote systematically on this subject.
Amin Ahsan Islahi, a most prominent pupil of Farahi, and later a principal of Madrasah Al-Islah, the educational institution associated with Shibli Nu‘mani and Farahi, learned and mastered Farahi’s concept of internal order and coherence in the Qur’an and became the most important propone
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Maulana Amin Ahsan Islahi
Death:1997
He will long be remembered for his lasting contribution to the Qur'anic studies, especially for his approach based and evolved around the concept of order and coherence in the contents of the divine book. He was influenced by the Indian freedom movement and, for some time, he acted as the president of the local Congress Party. Maulana Islahi was one of the founding members of Jama'at-e-Islami in 1941 but he left the Jama'at in 1958 over some policy differences. Later he migrated to Pakistan though in his view the Pakistani society was a broken and disintegrated one, afflicted with a most dangerous malaise: hypocrisy. He authored tafsir, Tadabbur-I-Qur'an (pondering the Qur'an) in eight volumes, the exegesis of the Qur'an which he considered pivotal as a reference work for any future work for Islam. His language and form was scholarly and accessible to educated readers. Amin Ahsan was born in Bhimpur, Azamgarh (India), and was a m