Khalid Saifullah Rahmani (born November 1956) is an Indian Muslim scholar, author and jurist who serves as the fifth president of the

All India Muslim Personal Law Board All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in India that represents the interests of Muslims in matters of personal law. It was formed in 1973 with the objective of protecting and promoting the appli ...

. He is the general secretary of Islamic Fiqh Academy of India. He has authored books including ''The Islamic Jurisprudence: Introduction and Codification'' and ''Kitāb-ul-Fatāwa''.

Biography

Khalid Saifullah Rahmani was born in November 1956. He is the nephew of Islamic scholar and jurist, Mujahidul Islam Qasmi. He received his primary education at home and studied at Madrasa Qasimul Uloom Hussainia for two years. He graduated from Jamia Rahmani in

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and studied "dawra-e-hadith" (the

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class of

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) again at

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, and graduated from there in 1395 AH. He later specialized in Islamic law and jurisprudence at Amarat-e-Sharia,

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. His teachers include

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, Naseer Ahmad Khan,

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, and

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. Rahmani also benefitted from his uncle Mujahidul Islam Qasmi. In 1398 AH, Rahmani started to teach at Madrasa Sabeelus-Salam, where he was appointed head teacher in 1399 AH. He taught there for 22 years and went on to establish

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. He has also helped to found institutions such as Sabilul Falaah and Madrasa al-Falihat in

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; Madrasa Nurul Uloom, in

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and Madrasa Talimul Quran lil-Banat in Karnataka. Rahmani is a member of the

's Legal Council and the general secretary of Islamic Fiqh Academy. He is a regular columnist of the Friday edition of ''Munsif'', and editor of ''Three Monthly Behs-o-Nazar'', an Islamic juristic journal that Mujahidul Islam Qasmi had started. In 2021, he was appointed interim, and subsequently prominent, general secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board following Wali Rahmani's death, after having served as a secretary of the Board. On 3 June 2023, he was elected as the fifth president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board following the demise of

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Literary works

Rahmani's works include: * ''Aasaan Tafsir-e-Quran Majid'' (A commentary on the

Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...

) * ''Fiqh-e-Islāmi: Tadwīn-o-Ta'āruf'' (The Islamic Jurisprudence: Introduction and Codification) * ''Islām ka Nizām Ushr-o-Zakāt'' * ''Khawātīn ke Māli Huqūq: Shariat-e-Islāmi ki Nazar mai'' * ''Kitāb al-Fatāwa'' (The Book of the Fatāwa) * ''Qāmus al-Fiqh'' * ''Qur'ān: Ek Ilhāmi Kitāb'' * ''Asan Usul-e Hadith'' *''Prophet for the World'' (English translation of his Urdu book ''Paighambar-e-Aalam'')

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