Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi

{{Infobox religious biography

|honorific_prefix = Mawlāna

|name = Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi

|religion = Islam

|father = Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari

|birth_date = 1909

|birth_place = Ambehta, Saharanpur, British India

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1992|10|16|1909}}

|alma_mater = Darul Uloom Deoband, Jamia Islamia Talimuddin and the University of the Punjab

|death_place = Mumbai, India

|known_for = editing Madina

|notable_works = Islām ka Nizām-e-Hukūmat, Khulq-e-Azeem

|children= Abidullah Ghazi (son)

|founder = Nadwatul Musannifeen

}}

Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi (1909 – 16 October 1992) was an Indian Muslim scholar, author and a journalist, who co-founded the Nadwatul Musannifeen and served as the editor of bi-weekly newspaper Madina. He was the son of Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari and an alumnus of the Darul Uloom Deoband, Jamia Islamia Talimuddin and University of the Punjab. He was a member of the executive council of Darul Uloom Deoband and authored books such as Islām ka Nizām-e-Hukūmat and Khulq-e-Azeem.

Biography

Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi was born 1909 in Ambehta, Saharanpur.{{Sfn|Rizwi|1981|p=114}} His father Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari was one of the major leaders of the Silk Letter Movement.{{Sfn|Adrawi|2016|p=71}} Ghazi completed his primary studies under the guidance of his maternal grandfather Siddiq Ahmad Anbethvi.{{Sfn|Rizwi|1981|p=114}} He studied at the Darul Uloom Deoband and Jamia Islamia Talimuddin between 1922 and 1927.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=198}} He was one of the major students of Anwar Shah Kashmiri.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=198}} He passed the "munshi" and "fazil" exams from University of the Punjab.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=198}}

Ghazi contributed to the Al-Jamiyat of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for three years and then became the editor of Madina, a Bijnor-based newspaper.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=198}} He associated with Tajwar Najībābadi's Naqqād for sometime and then established Nadwatul Musannifeen along with Atiq-ur-Rahman Usmani, Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi and Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=198}} Meanwhile, he served as the editor for Nida-e-Haram, a Mecca based magazine, at the request of Muhammad Saleem Muhajir Makki, the rector of Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=198}} In 1942, he again joined Madina, and remained associated with it for five years.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|pp=198-199}} He moved to Bombay in 1950, where he edited the Jamhuriyat, a daily newspaper published by Jamiat Ulama-e-Maharashtra. He discontinued editing this newspaper after it was renamed Gufira-lahu ({{nastaliq|غفرلہ}}) in 1956.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=199}} He then started a new paper on his own, Jamhuriyat, using the same name.{{Sfn|Qasmi|2013|p=199}}

Ghazi was appointed a member of the executive council of Darul Uloom Deoband in 1382 AH.{{Sfn|Rizwi|1981|p=114}} He died in Bombay on 16 October 1992.{{Sfn|Adrawi|2016|p=71}}

Literary works

Ghāzi's books include:{{Sfn|Rizwi|1981|p=114}}

Islām ka Nizām-e-Hukūmat
Khulq-e-Azeem
Ṣad sālah yādgār: 1857 se 1957 tak Hindūstān kī jang-i āzādī men̲ musalmānon̲ ke k̲h̲ūn kā ḥiṣṣah

Personal life

Ghāzi was married to Hajira Nazli, the daughter of Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi. Nazli is an author of twenty Urdu novels.{{cite book |last1=Amini |first1=Noor Alam Khalil |author1-link=Noor Alam Khalil Amini |title=Pas-e-Marg-e-Zindah |publisher=Idara Ilm-o-Adab |location=Deoband |page=174 |edition=May 2010 |language=Urdu}} Indo-American author and educationist Abidullah Ghazi is their son.{{cite web |author1=Zahid Ur Rashdi |author1-link=Zahid Ur Rashdi |title=A meeting with Dr Abidullah Ghazi |url=http://zahidrashdi.org/685 |website=zahidrashdi.org |access-date=22 December 2020 |language=Urdu |date=18 November 2000}}

References

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{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1=Asir |author1-link=Asir Adrawi |title=Karwān-e-Rafta: Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind |trans-title= The Caravan of the Past: Discussing Indian scholars|date=April 2016 |publisher=Darul Muallifeen |location=Deoband |edition=2nd|language=ur}}
{{cite book|last1=Qasmi|first1=Nayab Hasan|title=Darul Uloom Deoband Ka Sahafati Manzarnama|publisher=Idara Tahqeeq-e-Islami|date=2013|location=Deoband|pages=197–200|language=Urdu|chapter=Mawlāna Hāmid al-Ansāri Ghāzi}}
{{cite book|last1=Rizwi|first1=Syed Mehboob|translator=Murtaz Husain F Quraishi|authorlink1=Syed Mehboob Rizwi|title=Tārīkh Darul Uloom Deoband|trans-title=History of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband|volume=2|publisher=Darul Uloom Deoband|location=Deoband|date=1981 |edition=1st}}

Category:1909 births

Category:1992 deaths

Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni

Category:Jamia Islamia Talimuddin alumni

Category:University of the Punjab alumni

Category:Urdu-language writers from India

Category:Indian writers

Category:Indian journalists

Category:Deobandis

Category:Nadwatul Musannifeen

Category:Students of Anwar Shah Kashmiri

Category:20th-century Indian Muslims