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{{short description|Indian Muslim scholar}}<br />
{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|honorific_prefix = Mawlāna, Mufti<br />
|name = Atīqur Rahmān Usmāni<br />
|birth_date = 1901<br />
|birth_place = [[Deoband]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1984|5|12|1901}} <br />
|death_place = [[Delhi]], India<br />
|father = [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]]<br />
|relatives =[[Usmani family of Deoband]]<br />
|office1= President of [[All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat]]<br />
|predecessor1 =[[Syed Mahmud]]<br />
|successor1 = Sheikh Zulfiqarullah<br />
|resting_place = [[Mehdiyan]]<br />
|module2= {{Infobox religious biography |embed= yes<br />
|religion = Islam<br />
|founder = [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]], [[All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat]]<br />
}}}}<br />
'''Atīqur Rahmān Usmāni''' (1901 – 12 May 1984) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Muslim scholar and an activist of [[Indian independence movement]] who co-founded [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] and [[All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat]].<br />
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Born in 1901 in [[Deoband]] to [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]], Atiqur Rahman Usmani studied in the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. He taught at Deoband and [[Jamia Islamia Talimuddin]]. He also served as the president of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat. He died on 12 May 1984.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Usmāni was born in 1901 in [[Deoband]].<ref name="asir">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=[[Asir Adrawi]]|pages=191–192|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Muallifeen |language=Urdu |edition = 2 April 2016}}</ref> His father [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]] was the Grand Mufti of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]].<ref name="tayyabqasmi">{{cite book |last1=Muhammad Tayyib |first1=Qari |author-link1=Qari Muhammad Tayyib |editor1-last=Bukhari |editor1-first=Akbar Shah |title=50 Misaali Shaksiyaat |trans-title=50 Exemplar personalities|page=189 |edition=July 1999 |language=ur}}</ref> Usmāni graduated from [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] where he studied under [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]].<ref name="tayyabqasmi"/><br />
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Usmāni began teaching in Darul Uloom Deoband and practiced "[[fatwa]]" under the supervision of his father and later became the Vice Mufti.<ref name="tayyabqasmi"/> He taught at [[Jamia Islamia Talimuddin]] for sometime.<ref name="tayyabqasmi"/> In 1938, Usmāni established [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] along with [[Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi]], [[Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi]] and [[Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Nayab Hasan Qasmi |title=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] Ka Sahafati ManzarNama |publisher=Idara Tehqeeq-e-Islami, [[Deoband]] |pages=176, 198}}</ref><br />
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Usmāni was a close associate of Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi and served as the working president of [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]] after the death of [[Ahmad Saeed Dehlvi]].<ref name="millat"/> He disassociated himself from the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind in 1963 and a year later, in 1964, he co-founded the [[All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat]]<ref name="millat"/> and became its president after [[Syed Mahmud]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Book Review: A brief history of Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat |url=http://twocircles.net/2016mar01/1456810634.html |website=twocircles.net |publisher=[[Two Circles]] |access-date=4 January 2021 |date=1 March 2016}}</ref><br />
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Usmāni died on 12 May 1984 in [[Delhi]].<ref name="asir"/> He was buried in [[Mehdiyan]], near the grave of [[Shah Waliullah Dehlawi]].<ref name="millat"/><br />
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==Activism==<br />
Usmāni participated in the [[Indian freedom struggle]] and gave a religious verdict saying that no government has any right to impose taxes on items like water and salt and if any government does so, it is necessary for the people to oppose this action and to struggle against it.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Islāhi |first1=Zafrul Islām |author1-link=Zafarul Islam Islahi |title=Salt satyagraha and Muslims |url=https://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2005/01-15May05-Print-Edition/011505200551.htm |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=[[The Milli Gazette]] |date=1-15 May 2005}}</ref><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Usmāni translated and annotated ''Al-Kalim al-Tayyib'' of [[Ibn Taymiyah]] into [[Urdu language|Urdu]].<ref name="millat">{{cite book|editor-first= Jameel |editor-last=Mehdi |title=Mufakkir-e-Millat Number, Burhan |chapter=Atiqur Rahman Usmani (1901-1984)|edition=November 1987 |pages=506–507 |publisher=Nadwatul Musannifeen |location=Delhi}}</ref> At Nadwatul Musannifeen, he started a monthly journal, ''[[Burhan (journal)|Burhan]]''.<ref name="millat"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Muhammad Tayyib |first1=Qari |author-link1=Qari Muhammad Tayyib |editor1-last=Bukhari |editor1-first=Akbar Shah |title=50 Misaali Shaksiyaat |trans-title=50 Exemplar personalities |publisher=Maktaba Faiz-ul-Qur'an |location=[[Deoband]] |pages=110–113 |edition=July 1999 |language=ur}}<br />
* {{cite book |editor-first= Jameel |editor-last=Mehdi |title=Mufakkir-e-Millat Number, Burhan|edition=November 1987 |publisher=[[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] |location=Delhi |language=Urdu}}<br />
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[[Category:1984 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Darul Uloom Deoband alumni]]<br />
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[[Category:Usmani family]]<br />
[[Category:Nadwatul Musannifeen]]<br />
[[Category:Students of Anwar Shah Kashmiri]]<br />
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