Nizāmuddīn Asīr Adrawi (also known as Asīr Adrawi; 1926 – 20 May 2021) was an Indian

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Muslim scholar, biographer, historian and author in the

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language. He established the Madrassa Darus Salam in Adari and served as the Officer In Charge of the

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind or Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind ( ) is one of the leading organizations of Islamic scholars belonging to the Deobandi school of thought in India. It was founded in November 1919 by a group of Muslim scholars including Abdul Bari Fir ...

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from 1974 to 1978. Asīr was an alumnus of the

Jamia Miftahul Uloom The Jamia Miftahul Uloom (, ) is an Islamic School in India. It is located at Shahi Katra, a town in the Mau district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in Nort ...

, Madrassa Ehya-ul-Uloom and the Madrasa Shahi. He taught Islamic sciences at the Madrasa Jamia Islamia in Rewri Talab,

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. His works include the ''Maʼās̲ir-i Shaik̲h̲ulislām'', ''Tafāsīr mai Isrā'īli Riwāyāt'' and the biographies of

Hussain Ahmad Madani Hussain Ahmad Madani (; 6 October 1879 – 5 December 1957) was an Indian Islamic scholar, serving as the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was among the first recipients of the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1954. ...

, Imamuddin Punjabi, Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi,

Mahmud Hasan Deobandi Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (also known as Shaykh al-Hind; 1851–1920) was an Indian Muslim scholar and an activist of the Indian independence movement, who co-founded the Jamia Millia Islamia University and launched the Silk Letter Movement for ...

and

Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Hidāyat Aḥmad Ayyūbī Anṣārī Gangohī (12 June 182611 August 1905) was a Deobandi Islamic scholar from Indian subcontinent, a leading figure of the Deobandi jurist and scholar of hadith, author of '' Fatawa-e-Rash ...

Biography

Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi was born in 1926 in Adari, Mau, then in the

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. He was schooled at the Madrasa Faydh al-Ghuraba in Adari, and then at the

where he studied with Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azmi, Munshi Zahīr-ul-Haq Nishāt Simābi and Abdul Latīf Nomāni. He then went to the Madrassa Ehya-ul-Uloom in Mubarakpur, where he studied with scholars such as Shukrullah Mubarakpuri. He then moved to Darul Uloom Mau where he studied the '' Mishkat'' with Abdur Rasheed al-Hussayni and the '' Jalalayn'' with Qari Riyasat Ali. He applied for admission to the

Darul Uloom Deoband Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic university and seminary ( darul uloom) in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India, at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. Established in 1866 by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, Fazlur Rahman Usmani, Sayy ...

but was unsuccessful and thus went to the Madrasa Shahi for higher studies and graduated in 1942. He studied the ''

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'' with Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad, the ''

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'' with Ismail Sambhali and the works of '' Tirmidhi'' with Muhammad Miyan Deobandi. Asīr participated in the Quit India Movement. He was associated with the

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until 1948, when he joined the

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. He established the Madrassa Darus Salam in Adari, Mau in 1954, and taught there for around sixteen years. He served as the Officer In Charge of the

, Uttar Pradesh in

from 1974 to 1978 and thereafter taught Islamic Sciences at the Madrasa Jamia Islamia in Rewri Talab,

from 4 February 1978 till he was bedridden due to old age. Asīr was the editor of the ''3 monthly Tarjumān'' and wrote hundreds of articles for it. He was a columnist and a writer for the ''Weekly Al-Jamiat'' and ''Daily al-Jamiat'' of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He wrote short stories and

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s including the ''Itnā'', ''Do LāsheiN'', ''Nashīb-o-Farāz'' and ''Aetirāf-e-Shikast''. His legends such as the ''Hand bag'' and ''Aspatāl'' were published by the Nawai Pakistan of

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. He also contributed to the ''Kāmyāb, Delhi'' and the ''Risālā Dārul Uloom'' of the Darul Uloom Deoband. Several of his works have been considered primary sources for various Darul Uloom Deoband related issues. Asīr died on 20 May 2021 in Adari,

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. Arshad Madani expressed grief at his death and said that "Asīr Adrawi's death is an irreparable loss."

Literary works

Asīr wrote biographies of the Islamic theologians

Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi Muhammad Qasim Nanawtawi (1832 – 15 April 1880) () was an Indian Sunni Hanafi Maturidi Islamic Scholar, theologian and a Sufi who was one of the main founders of the Deobandi Movement, starting from the Darul Uloom Deoband. Name and line ...

, Imamuddin Punjabi,

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and

. He abridged the four-volume ''Tarīkh-e-Islām'' () by Muinuddin Ahmad Nadwi into four thin volumes. His book, the ''Taḥrīk-i āzādī aur Musalmān'' () is part of the curricula of the

and several other affiliated

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s. His other books include: * ''Afkār-e-Aalam'' () * ''Dabistān-i Devband kī ʻilmī k̲h̲idmāt'' () * ''Dārulʻulūm Devband, iḥyā-yi Islām kī ʻaẓīm taḥrīk'' () * ''Fun asma-ur-Rijal'' () * ''Maʼās̲ir-i Shaik̲h̲ulislām'' (, the biography of Hussain Ahmed Madani) * ''Tafāsīr mai Isrā'īli Riwāyāt'' () * ''Tārīkh Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind'' () * ''Tārīkh-e-Tabri ka tehqīqi jayzah'' () * ''Urdu sharah Dīvān-i Mutanabbī'' ()

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Biography

Literary works

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