Rahmatullah Kairanawi

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Rahmatullah Kairanawi
رحمت اللہ کیرانوی
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Born
Rahmatullah

1818
Historiographer
Muslim leader
Students
Influenced by
Influenced
Patronymic (Nasab)
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Toponymic (Nisba)al-Kayrānawī
الكيرانوي
al-Hindī
الهندي

Rahmatullah Kairanawi al-Hindi (

Muslim scholar and author who is best known for his work, Izhar ul-Haqq.[2]

Background

Kairanawi was born in

Arabic and Persian. Later he moved to Delhi where he studied different disciplines including mathematics and medicine.[4] Working as a Mufti and Sharia teacher, he founded a religious school in Kariana.[4][5]

Name and lineage

His

nasab (patronymic) is: Rahmatullāh ibn Khalīlullāh ibn Najībullāh ibn Habībullāh ibn Abd al-Rahīm ibn Qutb al-Dīn ibn Fuzail ibn Abd al-Rahīm ibn Abd al-Karīm ibn Hasan ibn Abd al-Samad ibn Abu Ali ibn Muhammad Yūsuf ibn Abd al-Qādir ibn Jalāluddīn Muhammad ibn Mahmūd ibn Yaqūb ibn Īsā ibn Ismā'īl ibn Muhammad Taqi ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ali Naqi ibn Usmān ibn Abdullāh ibn Shihābuddīn ibn Abd al-Rahmān Gāzrūni ibn Abd al-Azīz Sarkhasi ibn Khālid ibn Walīd ibn Abd al-Azīz ibn Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abdullāh Sāni ibn Abd al-Azīz ibn Abdullāh Kabīr ibn Amar ibn Uthman.[6]

Debate with Pfander

In 1837 the

Muhammad Wazîr Khân and influential Islamic writer Imad ud-din Lahiz.[10] Kairanawi used arguments from recent European theologically critical works that Pfander was unfamiliar with, having left Europe before these were published, though his main source of reference was the apocryphal sixteenth-century Gospel of Barnabas, which he held to be authentic.[11]

Indian Rebellion of 1857

Following

Mocha, Yemen, he walked to Mecca. The journey took two years.[4]

Author

Kairanawi wrote books in Arabic, Persian and Urdu.

Izhar ul-Haq (Truth Revealed)

Written originally in Arabic, the book Izhar ul-Haqq in six volumes was translated later into Urdu, and from Urdu into a summarized English version[12] published by Ta-Ha. The book aims to respond to Christian criticism of Islam. It is the first Muslim book to use Western scholarly works in order to ascertain the errors and contradictions of the Bible. The doctrine of Trinity is purportedly contested using biblical, Christian and other sources. Christine Schirrmacher, a German scholar of Islamic Studies, states in an article on the Pfander-Kairanawi debate: "The Demonstration of the Truth' (izhâr al-haqq) served as a summary of all possible charges against Christianity and was therefore used after al-Kairânawî's death as a sort of encyclopaedia since al-Kairânawî extended the material of former polemicists like 'Ali Tabarî, Ibn Hazm or Ibn Taymiyya to a great extent."[10]

The Madrasa Sawlatia

While residing in Mecca, Kairanawi founded a religious school there named Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah. Rahmatullah Kairanawi was appointed as a lecturer at the Masjid-e-Haram by the Sheikh-ul-Ulama (The Leading Scholar) Sheikh Ahmad Dahlan As-Shafiee. Kairanawi started teaching and realized that lessons were delivered as sermons, rather than, planned academic lectures. He gathered some of the Indian Muslim immigrants, wealthy benefactors to establish an authentic Islamic Law School to teach the Islamic sciences through a sound curriculum. He established the Madrassah in 1290 hijrah corresponding to 1874 A.D. The major contributor was a lady of Calcutta by the name of Sawlat-un-Nisa, on whose name the Madrassah is named. The Madrassah is still in existence and has well known alumni around the world, Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah.[13][14][15]

Death

Kairanwi died in 1891 (22 Ramadan 1308 AH) in Mecca and was buried in Jannat al-Mu'alla.[16]

See also

References

Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article:
  1. ^ "Ahmad Deedat: Man of mission". 8 December 2011.
  2. hdl:10603/18867
    . Retrieved 26 March 2020 – via Shodhganga.
  3. ^ Deobandi, Nawaz (ed.). Sawaneh Ulama-e-Deoband (in Urdu). Vol. 1 (January 2000 ed.). p. 390.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Abd al-Rahmānn Gazruni is a forefather of Kairanawi, was the military Chief Justice in Mahmood Ghaznavi Armies. Abd al-Rahmān Gazrūni is buried near the Panipat fort. (Qur'an se Bible Tak) Kairanvi Biography in Arabic Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Madrasa Saulatia website.
  5. ^ Bible se Qur'an tak
  6. ^ Deobandi, Nawaz (ed.). Sawaneh Ulama-e-Deoband (in Urdu). Vol. 1 (January 2000 ed.). p. 388.
  7. ^ Beginnings in India, chapter VIII, by Eugene Stock, D.C.L.; London: Central Board of Missions and SPCK, 1917.
  8. hdl:10603/55315
    . Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  9. hdl:10603/55315
    . Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  10. ^ a b Schirrmacher, Christine. "The influence of German Biblical criticism on Muslim apologetics in the 19th century", Contra Mundum, 1997. Accessed 27 September 2007.
  11. ^ Stock, The History of the Church Missionary Society its Environment, its Men and its Work (London, 1899–1916), 2: 171
  12. ^ "This book". www.islam4all.com. Archived from the original on 31 July 2002.
  13. ^ "HIS HOLYNESS THE GREAT Maulana Mohammad Rahmatullah Kairanvi & Madrasa Saulatiya,Mecca". Archived from the original on 14 September 2020.
  14. ^ Nuzhat-ul-Khawatir vol 8
  15. Muhammad Taqi Usmani
    , Bible se Qur,an Tak vol 1.
  16. ^ Deobandi, Nawaz (ed.). Sawaneh Ulama-e-Deoband (in Urdu). Vol. 1 (January 2000 ed.). p. 444.

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