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{{Short description|Indian Islamic scholar}}
{{infobox religious biography
| honorific_prefix = [[Mawlana]]
| name = Abdur Rab Jaunpuri
| honorific_suffix =
| image =
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1875}}
| birth_place = Mullatola, [[Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh|Jaunpur]], [[North-Western Provinces]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|6||1875||}}
| death_place = Mollatala, [[Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh|Jaunpur]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]]
| resting_place =
| education =
| occupation = Theologian, author
| father = [[Hafiz Mahmud Jaunpuri]]
| mother =
| successor =
| relatives = [[Karamat Ali Jaunpuri]] (grandfather)<br>[[Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri]] (uncle)<br>[[Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri]] (uncle)<br>[[Abdul Batin Jaunpuri]] (cousin)<br>[[Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri|Rashid Ahmad Jaunpuri]] (cousin)
| influences = [[Karamat Ali Jaunpuri]]
| religion = [[Islam]]
| denomination = [[Sunni]]
| jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
| movement = [[Taiyuni]]
| disciples = [[Muhammad Ishaq (scholar)|Muhammad Ishaq]]
| influenced =
| footnotes =
| teacher = [[Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri]]
| predecessor = [[Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri]]
| students =
| weight =
}}
'''ʿAbd ar-Rabb Jaunpūrī''' ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|عبد الرب جونپوری}}}}, {{langx|bn|আব্দুর রব জৌনপুরী}}; 1875 – June 1935) was an [[Indian Muslim]] scholar, author and teacher.<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|page=84|title=হযরত খাজা শরফ উদ্দিন চিশতী (রঃ) এবং মায়ার প্রশাসন ও প্রাসঙ্গিক কিছু কথা|year=1990|publisher=Mubeshah Prakashani|author=Mullah, Muhammad Ghulam Mustafa}}</ref> He was associated with [[Taiyuni]] reformist movement, founded by his grandfather [[Karamat Ali Jaunpuri]], and succeeded his uncle [[Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri]] as the leader of the movement in 1899.<ref name=":0">{{cite Banglapedia|article=Jaunpuri, Abdur Rab|author=Afaz Uddin, Muhammad}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Abdul Rab Jaunpuri was born in 1875 to a scholarly [[Indian Muslim]] family in Mullatola, [[Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh|Jaunpur]], located in the [[North-Western Provinces]] of the [[British Raj]]. His father, Hafiz Mahmud Jaunpuri, traced his ancestry to the [[Arab]] tribe of [[Quraysh]], with Jaunpuri being a 37th-generation direct descendant of [[Abu Bakr]], the first [[Rashidun caliph]]. Jaunpuri's grandfather [[Karamat Ali Jaunpuri]] was the founder of the [[Taiyuni]] reformist movement and propagated Islam in north India and [[Bengal]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Hagiology of Sufi Saints and the Spread of Islam in South Asia|year=2010|author=Ismail, Muhammad|page=172|publisher=Jnanada Prakashan|isbn=9788171393756}}</ref> His great grandfather, Abu Ibrahim Shaykh Muhammad Imam Bakhsh ibn Shaykh Jarullah was a student of [[Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi]]. Many of his family members were also Islamic scholars, for example, his uncles [[Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri]] and [[Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri]], and his cousin [[Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri|Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri]].<ref name=":0"/>

Jaunpuri's father died when he was five years old, so he was brought up and educated by his uncle [[Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri]]. He memorised the [[Qur'an]] in his childhood, and studied the [[Arabic]] and [[Farsi|Persian]] languages. He was said to have mastered the knowledge of [[ma'rifa]].<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|pages=40–41|title=হজরত মাওলানা হাফেজ এনায়েত উল্যাহ খান|year=1961|author=Patwari, Muhammad Solaiman}}</ref>

== Career ==
Jaunpuri worked alongside his uncle in establishing numerous religious institutions in [[Daulatkhan Upazila|Daulatkhan]] in the Bengali island of [[Bhola Island|Bhola]]. He established a [[langar khana]] which provided meals to needy people in the area. Jaunpuri toured many different parts of Bengal, giving public lectures, where he gained a large following.<ref>{{cite book|title={{Nastaliq|تراجم علماء حدیث ہند}}|language=ur|author=Khan, Abu Yahya Imam|publisher=}}</ref> Notable locations include [[Sandwip]] and [[Barisal]].<ref>{{cite book|title=আমার দেখা সন্দ্বীপ|language=bn|chapter=14. সন্দ্বীপ টাউনে সভা সমাবেশ|author=Taluqdar, Shibbir Ahmed|year=2020|publisher=Soja Kotha}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=বরিশাল দর্পন|page=19|language=bn|author=Rahman, K. A.|year=1980}}</ref> He also wrote books in [[Urdu]] such as ''Nafeul Khalaiq''.<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|title=বাংলা ভাষায় কুরআন চর্চা|page=448|year=1986|publisher=[[Islamic Foundation Bangladesh]]|author=Mujibur Rahman, Muhammad|orig-year=1938}}</ref> Many of the next generation of Islamic scholars were his ''[[murid]]s'' such as [[Muhammad Ishaq (scholar)|Muhammad Ishaq]] and [[Abul Hasanat Muhammad Abdul Hayy]].<ref name=tas>{{cite book|title=পরিবাগের শাহ ছাহেব রাহেমাহুল্লার জীবনী|language=bn|author=Ahmed, Momtazuddin|page=10|year=1963}}</ref><ref>{{citation|language=bn|title=মাওলানা আবুল হাসানাত মােহাম্মদ আবদুল হাই (১৯০১-১৯৮৩)|author=Tasnim, Alim}}</ref>

== Death ==
Jaunpuri died in June 1935 in his home neighbourhood of Mullatola in Jaunpur, then located under the [[United Provinces of British India]].<ref>{{cite book|title=মওলানা আবদুল আউওয়াল জৌনপুরী|language=bn|publisher=[[Islamic Foundation Bangladesh]]|author=[[Muhammad Abdullah (academic)|Abdullah, Muhammad]]|pages=12–16|trans-title=Molana Abdul Auoal Jaunpuri}}</ref>

== Spiritual genealogy ==
His spiritual genealogy is as follows:<ref name=tas/>
# '''[[Prophet Muhammad]]'''
# [[Abu Bakr|Abū Bakr]]
# [[Salman the Persian|Salmān al-Fārisī]]
# [[Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr|Al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr]]
# [[Ja'far al-Sadiq|Jaʿfar bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī aṣ-Ṣādiq]]
# [[Bayazid Bastami|Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr al-Bisṭāmī]]
# [[Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani|Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Kharaqānī]]
# [[Abu ali Farmadi|Abū ʿAlī Faḍl bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Fārmadī]]
# [[Yusuf Hamdani|Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī]]
# [[Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani|ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Ghijdawānī]]
# [[Arif Riwgari|Khwājah Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Riwgarī]]
# [[Mahmood Anjir-Faghnawi|Khwājah Maḥmūd al-Anjīr al-Faghnawī]]
# [[Ali Ramitani|ʿAzīzān ʿAlī ar-Rāmitānī]]
# [[Amir Kulal|Sayyid Shams ad-Dīn Amīr Kulāl]]
# [[Mohammad Baba As-Samasi|Muḥammad Bābā as-Samāsī]]
# [[Baha' al-Din Naqshband|Sayyid Bahā ad-Dīn Naqshband]]
# [[Sayyid Alauddin Atar|Sayyid Mīr ʿAlā ad-Dīn ʿAṭṭār]]
# [[Yaqub al-Charkhi|Yaʿqūb Charkhī]]
# [[Khwaja Ahrar|Khwājah ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār]]
# [[Muhammad Zahid Wakhshi|Khwājah Muḥammad Zāhid Wakhshī]]
# [[Darwish Muhammad|Khwājah Darwesh Muḥammad]]
# [[Khwaja Akmanagi|Khwājah Muḥammad Amkingī]]
# [[Khwaja Baqi Billah|Khwājah Raḍī ad-Dīn Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh]]
# [[Ahmad Sirhindi|Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī]]
# [[Syed Adam Nuri|Sayyid Ādam bin Nūrī]]
# [[Syed Abdullah Akbarabadi|Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Akbarābādī]]
# [[Shah Abdur Rahim|Shāh ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm Dehlawī]]
# [[Shah Waliullah Dehlawi|Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī]]
# [[Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi|Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dehlawī]]
# [[Syed Ahmad Barelvi|Sayyid Aḥmad Shahīd]]
# [[Karamat Ali Jaunpuri|Karāmat ʿAlī bin Abī Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Imām Bakhsh bin Jār Allāh al-Jaunpūrī]]
# [[Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri|Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī]]
# '''ʿAbd ar-Rabb bin Maḥmud bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī'''

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
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{{Islam in South Asia}}

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