All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board

{{Short description|Sufi-orientated organisation in India}}

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| leader_title = National President

| leader_name = Syed Mohammad Ashraf

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The All India Ulama & Mashaikh Board (abbreviated as AIUMB){{refn|name=notability|{{cite news |title=The sufi solution |url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/zG3aMfKAuC26PNQsW8ODZJ/The-sufi-solution.html |work=Livemint |date=3 February 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://twocircles.net/2015jan30/1422562166.html|title=Babar Ashraf removed from AIUMB; launches his own org |date=29 January 2015 |publisher=TwoCircles.net|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eurasiareview.com/16112015-indian-ulama-and-mashaikh-preparing-for-first-world-islamic-spiritual-summit/|title=Indian Ulama And Mashaikh Preparing For First World Islamic Spiritual Summit – Eurasia Review|date=16 November 2015 |publisher=eurasiareview.com|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://twocircles.net/2015jan30/1422562166.html|title=Babar Ashraf removed from AIUMB; launches his own org |date=29 January 2015 |publisher=TwoCircles.net|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Use-Friday-prayers-to-expose-terror-outfits-theirsympathizers-Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind/articleshow/49950518.cms|title=Use Friday prayers to expose terror outfits, their sympathizers: Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind - Times of India|work=The Times of India|date=27 November 2015 |accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-11-30/Why-Do-Indian-Muslims-Need-Organizations-like-AIUMB-to-Counter-Extremism-189881|title=Why Do Indian Muslims Need Organizations like AIUMB to Counter Extremism?|date=30 November 2015|publisher=thehansindia.com|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Bareilly-mosque-row-spills-over-to-Pilibhit/articleshow/47519188.cms|title=Bareilly mosque row spills over to Pilibhit|work=The Times of India|date=2 June 2015 |accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://twocircles.net/2015jun19/1434685607.html|title=Haryana Waqf Board takes control of 800 years old dargah amidst opposition from Ulema and Mashaikh board |date=19 June 2015 |publisher=TwoCircles.net|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/sufi-ideology-integral-to-indian-ethos-pm-modi-1053109.html|title=Sufi ideology integral to Indian ethos: PM Modi - News18|publisher=CNN-IBN|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/churn-in-muslim-community-over-wahabi-charge/article2556098.ece|title=Churn in Muslim community over Wahabi charge |work=The Hindu|date=20 October 2011 |accessdate=18 August 2016|last1=Subrahmaniam |first1=Vidya }} is a body of Sufi-orientated Indian Sunni Muslims.{{cite news |title=AIUMB urges Sunni Muslims to reject hardline Wahabism |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-27/lucknow/30446920_1_india-ulama-indian-muslims-madrassas |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629124951/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-27/lucknow/30446920_1_india-ulama-indian-muslims-madrassas |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2013 |work=The Times of India |date=27 November 2011 }} It was founded by Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi.{{cite web|url=http://www.eurasiareview.com/15112015-the-paris-attack-an-obnoxious-picture-of-violent-extremists-oped/|title=The Paris Attack: An Obnoxious Picture of Violent Extremists – OpEd – Eurasia Review|date=15 November 2015 |publisher=eurasiareview.com|accessdate=18 August 2016}} It is a representative body consisting of the Sajjada Nasheen (Patrons-in-Chief) of Dargahs, imams of mosques, Muftis and teachers of madrasas.{{cn|date=September 2021}}

}} is an Islamic Non-governmental Organisation and a representative body consisting the Sajjadanasheens of Dargahs, Imams of Mosques, the Teacher and Muftis working in the Madrasa belonging to the Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam. It was established in all the states and territories of India. It was formally founded by Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi.{{Cite book |last1=Ewing |first1=Katherine Pratt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ce_DwAAQBAJ |title=Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond |last2=Corbett |first2=Rosemary R. |date=2020-08-25 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-55146-5 |pages=21 |language=en}}

Initially started as representative body of Sunni Sufi Muslims of India, Currently, the AIUMB is defunct organization and apart from issuing press releases, it official website does not have any significant activity since several years. Its silence on relevant issues of Muslims of India and lip service without any activity against mob lynching's, illegal house demolition, NRC CAA and Waqf amendment Bill 2024 are seen with skeptical eyes.

It has not organized any significant Conference on its past agenda since 2021 and also no annual meet has been organized since 9 February 2022.http://www.aiumb.org/%e0%a4%86%e0%a4%b2-%e0%a4%87%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%a1%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%89%e0%a4%b2%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%b5-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%b6%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%87%e0%a4%96-%e0%a4%ac%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%b0-8/

This Board is also active in securing workable reservation for Muslims in education and employment in proportion to their population. For this they have been organizing meetings in U.P, Rajasthan, Gujrat, Delhi, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgadh, Jammu and Kashmir, and other states besides huge Sunni Sufi conferences and Muslim Maha Panchayets. Sunni conference (Muradabad 3 January 2011), Bhagalpur (10 May 2010) and Muslim Maha Panchayet at Pakbara Muradabad (16 October 2011) and also Mashaikh e tareeqat conference of Bareilly (26 November 2011), World Sufi Forum (16-20 March 2016), Sufi Conference at West Bengal (February 2019), Sufi Conference at Kashmir (September 2021) are some of the examples.

National Executive Body

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1Syed Mohammad Ashraf KichchowchhviFounder & National President
2Syed Tanveer HashmiVice President
3Shah Ammar Ahmad Ahmadi (Nayyar Miyan)Vice President
4Syedul Anwar Sayyadi MiyanVice President
5Syed Aale Mustafa Ali Pasha QuadriVice President
6Shah Mohammad Hasan JameeNational Secretary
7Syed Fareed Ahmad NizamiExecutive Member
8Syed Alamgir AshrafExecutive Member
9Syed Naseeruddin ChishtyExecutive Member
10Munawwar JamalExecutive Member
11Prof. Khwaja Mohd EkramuddinChairman-Advisory Board
12Mohammad Hussain SheraniOffice Secretary
13Mohammad AshrafTreasurer
All India Units & Volunteers
colspan="3" |Source:{{cite web|title=National Executive Committee|url=http://www.aiumb.org/india/organisational-structure/national-executive-committee/|publisher=AIUMB}}

World Sufi Forum

All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board organised World Sufi forum in New Delhi from 17 to 20 March 2016. It was a gathering of 200 delegates from all around the world who were to denounce the terrorism and extremism. Famous Muslim Sufi scholar Shaykh ul Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri delivered a keynote speech on 20 March 2016 in Ramlila Ground New Delhi, where he condemned terrorism and suicide bombings.{{Cite web|url=http://www.minhaj.org/english/tid/36690/India-Shaykh-ul-Islam-Dr-Muhammad-Tahir-ul-Qadri-to-address-International-Sufi-Conference-on-20th-March-Ramlila-Maidan-Delhi.html|title = India: Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to address International Sufi Conference on 20th March, Ramlila Maidan, Delhi - Minhaj-ul-Quran}}

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