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Bahishti Zewar

{{Short description|Book by Ashraf Ali Thanwi}}

{{Infobox book

|name = Bahishti Zewar

|image = Cover of Bahishti Zewar, 1909.jpg

|caption = 1909 edition

|author= {{Unbulleted list|Ashraf Ali Thanwi|Ahmed Ali Fatehpuri}}

|language = Urdu

|genre = Fiqh

}}

Bahishti Zewar ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|بہشتی زیور}}}} {{trans|"jewels of paradise"}}; {{langx|en|italic=yes|Heavenly Ornaments}}) is a volume of Deobandi beliefs and practices written by Ashraf Ali Thanwi and Ahmed Ali Fatehpuri.{{Cite book |last=Saʻīd |first=Aḥmad |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001930488 |title=Bazm-i Ashraf ke cirāg̲h |date=1975 |publisher=Maktabah-yi Aḥyāʻ-ul-ʻulūm alsharqīyah |location=Lāhaur |pages=116 |language=ur}} The book is comprehensive handbook of fiqh, Islamic rituals and morals, it is especially aimed at the education of girls and women. The volume describes the Five Pillars of Islam and also highlights more obscure principles. For years it has remained a favorite with the people of the Indian subcontinent as well as the Indian Muslim diaspora all over the world. It was originally written in the Urdu language but has been translated into a host of other languages including English.{{Cite book |last=Usmani |first=Taqi |author1-link=Taqi Usmani |url=https://archive.org/details/Tabsre_201610 |title=Tabsre |publisher=Maktaba Ma'ariful Quran |year=2005 |location=Pakistan |pages=126–128 |language=ur}}

Sections

The book is divided into ten sections:

  1. "True Stories"
  2. "Beliefs"
  3. "Incorrect Beliefs and Actions"
  4. "Salat and its Virtues"
  5. "Fasting, Zakat, Qurbâni, Hajj, Vows, Apostasy, Halâl and Harâm, etc."
  6. "Marriage, Divorce, 'Iddah, Maintenance, Custody, the Rights of Living and Reciting the Qurân"
  7. "Principles of Business and Pursuit of Wealth"
  8. "Etiquette, Manners Reformation of the Heart Deeds and their Retribution, and the Signs of Qiyâmah"
  9. "The Lives of Pious Women"
  10. "Health Matters and Etiquette

Legacy

Barbara Daly Metcalf's 1992 book Perfecting Women is a commentary and history of the Bahishti Zewar.{{cite book|author1=Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī|author2=Barbara Daly Metcalf|title=Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjKv1IhDoMgC|year=1992|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-08093-5}}{{Cite journal |last=Ansari |first=Usamah Yasin |date=2012 |title="Tandrusti Deen ka Kaam Hai": Health as a Matter of Religion in Book 9 of Ashraf Ali Thanvi's Bahishti Zewar |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665963 |journal=History of Religions |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=49–76 |doi=10.1086/665963 |jstor=10.1086/665963 |s2cid=162194778 |issn=0018-2710}}{{Cite journal |last=Ansari |first=Usamah Yasin |date=November 2010 |title=The Pious Self is a Jewel in Itself: Agency and Tradition in the Production of 'Shariatic Modernity' |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/026272801003000304 |journal=South Asia Research |language=en |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=275–298 |doi=10.1177/026272801003000304 |s2cid=147134358 |issn=0262-7280}}

See also

References

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External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120815054736/http://www.jamiaashrafia.org/fiqha.html Bahishti Zewar Online]
  • [https://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/islamic-life/2020/06/28/928287 Beheshti Jeor of 11 volumes]
  • [https://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/oboshore/2017/06/03/504434 Emdadiya's most popular book is Beheshti Jeor]

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Category:Books about Islamic jurisprudence

Category:Islam and women

Category:Deobandi fiqh literature

Category:20th-century Indian books

Category:Indian non-fiction books

Category:Indian religious texts

Category:Islamic studies books

Category:Islamic literature

Category:Books by Ashraf Ali Thanwi

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