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{{Short description|Indian Muslim scholar (1878–1926)}}

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{{Infobox religious biography
|religion = [[Islam]]
|name = Abdul Bari Firangi Mahli
|birth_date = 1878
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|death_date = 1926
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'''Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali ''' (1878–1926) was an Indian Muslim scholar and writer from the [[Firangi Mahal]] palace in [[Lucknow]].<ref name="DT">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-1-2003_pg3_6|work= Daily Times (newspaper)|title= Cam Diary: Lucknow's Farangi Mahal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070422221400/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-1-2003_pg3_6|archive-date=22 April 2007|access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref> He authored 111 books.<ref name="DT" />

==History==
His ancestors moved from Sihali, [[Barabanki district|Barabanki]] to the Firangi Mahal around 1692.<ref name="DT"/> In 1915, he was residing in Lucknow.

==Politics==

During the [[First World War]] he asked the Sultan of Turkey to support Britain or remain out of the war.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HUo4AAAAIAAJ&dq=Abdul+Bari+Nadvi&pg=PA140 Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915–1922 By Judith M. Brown]</ref>

On 26 January 1919 he presided over a protest meeting in Lucknow against the British attitude against Muslims.<ref>[https://www.jafariyanews.com/articles/2k4/21nov_baqihistory.htm Jafariya News, 21 November 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406053120/https://www.jafariyanews.com/articles/2k4/21nov_baqihistory.htm |date=6 April 2010 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.tnfj.org.pk/historicpersp.htm The historic perspective of Inhidaam-e-Jannatul Baqee & Jannatul Mualla] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412023847/http://www.tnfj.org.pk/historicpersp.htm |date=12 April 2010 }}</ref>

He was highly active in the [[Khilafat movement]].<ref name="DT"/>

He preached [[Hindu]]-[[Muslim]] unity, especially during the Khilafat agitation, and was an associate of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. On other occasions, he urged Muslims not to sacrifice cows in respect of the Hindus.<ref>September 1923. Francis Robinson, Separatism Among Indian Muslims, Delhi, 1975, p. 339.</ref>

==Institutions==

* In his opposition to [[secular education|Western education]], he founded ''Madarssa-i-Nizamia'' in [[Lucknow]].
* He set up ''Anjuman-i-Khuddam-i-Kabba'' (1914) to prevent desecration of Muslim Holy places by the British.
* He was the founder member of ''Darul Mussannefin'' [[Shibli Academy]], (1915–1916).<ref name="SA">[https://www.shibliacademy.org/founding_people Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy] Retrieved 22 August 2019</ref>
* He was the founder member of [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] in [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Province]]s, India (1920).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmi.nic.in/HistoryofJamia.htm |title=Jamia Millia Islamia, A Historical Note|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630204759/http://www.jmi.nic.in/HistoryofJamia.htm|archive-date=30 June 2007|access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Ansari (nesbat)]]
*[[Islam in India]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=czKYZPyoyx0C Pan-Islam in British Indian politics: a study of the Khilafat Movement, 1918 By M. Naeem Qureshi]

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