Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi
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Yasin Mazhar Siddiqui (also known as Yasin Mazhar Siddique Nadvi) (26 December 1944 – 15 September 2020) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and historian who served as director of the Institute of Islamic Studies of
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.


Biography

Yasin Mazhar Siddiqui was born on 26 December 1944 in the
Lakhimpur Kheri district Lakhimpur Kheri district is the largest district in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the border with Nepal. Its administrative capital is the city of Lakhimpur. Lakhimpur Kheri district is a part of Lucknow division, with a total area of . The natio ...
of
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. He graduated in the traditional
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studies from
Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama (translated as, House of Knowledge and Assembly of Scholars University) is an Islamic seminary in Lucknow, India. It was established by the Nadwatul Ulama, a council of Muslim scholars, on 26 September 1898. This ed ...
in 1959, and mastered in literature at the
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in 1960. He passed the intermediate exams from the
Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia is a Public university, public and research university located in Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British R ...
in 1962 and then acquired
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in 1965 and B.Ed. in 1966 from the same university. In 1968, Siddīqi received his M.A. degree in History, M.Phil in 1969, and
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in 1975 from the
Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University is a Collegiate university, collegiate, Central university (India), central, and Research university, research university located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Kh ...
. His teachers included
Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (also known as Ali Miyan; 5 December 1913 – 31 December 1999) was a leading Indian Islamic scholar, thinker, writer, preacher, reformer and a Muslim public intellectual of 20th century India and the author of ...
, K. A. Nizami, Abd al-Hafīz Balyāwi and
Rabey Hasani Nadwi Mohammad Rabey Hasani Nadwi (; 29 October 1929 – 13 April 2023) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar, who served as the president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board and as the chancellor of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, an Islamic seminary i ...
. Siddiqui was appointed a research assistant in the history department of
Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University is a Collegiate university, collegiate, Central university (India), central, and Research university, research university located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Kh ...
(AMU) in 1970. He became a lecturer of History in 1977 and Saiyid Hamid transferred him to the Institute of Islamic Studies, (AMU) in 1983. He became a Professor of Islamic Studies in 1991 and served as the director of Institute of Islamic Studies (AMU) from 1997 to 2000. In 2001, he was appointed as the director of Shah Waliullah Research Cell of the Institute of Islamic Studies (AMU). He retired from the Institute of Islamic Studies on 31 December 2006 but retained the position of director of the Shah Waliullah Research Cell for ten years. Between 2000 and 2010, he arranged about ten national and international seminars about the different aspects of
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi Qutb ud-Din Ahmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Rahim al-ʿUmari ad-Dehlawi (‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic Sunni scholar and Sufi reformer, who contributed to Islamic revival in the Indian s ...
's life and wrote eighteen books. Siddiqui was conferred with the fifth Shah Waliullah Award by Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi on 24 September 2005. He died on 15 September 2020.


Literary works

Siddiqui authored books including: * ''Tārīkh Tehzeeb-e-Islāmi'' * ''Ghazwāt ki Iqtesādi Ehmiyat'' * ''Tawhīd-e-Ilāhi awr mufassirīn-e-girāmi'' * ''Wahi-e-Hadīth'' * ''Ehd-e-Nabwi mai Tanzīm-e-Riyāsat-o-Hukūmat'' *''The Prophet Muhammad: A Role Model for Muslim Minorities'' * ''Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts at the Aligarh Muslim University'', published by
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in
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in 2002.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Siddiqi, Yasin Mazhar 1944 births 2020 deaths Jamia Millia Islamia alumni Aligarh Muslim University alumni University of Lucknow alumni Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama alumni People from Lakhimpur Kheri Academic staff of Aligarh Muslim University Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam