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| honorific_prefix = Mawlānā<br />
| name = Fazlur Rahmān Usmānī<br />
| birth_date = 1831<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| birth_place = [[Deoband]], [[Company rule in India|India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1907|6|15|1831}}<br />
| children = [[Aziz-ur-Rahman Usmani]], [[Habibur Rahman Usmani]], [[Shabbir Ahmad Usmani]]<br />
| relatives = [[Atiqur Rahman Usmani]] (grandson)<br />
| teacher = [[Mamluk Ali Nanautawi]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Zakir Husain Delhi College|Delhi College]]<br />
| founder = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]<br />
| religion = Islam<br />
}}<br />
'''Fazlur Rahmān Usmānī''' (1831 – 15 June 1907) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Muslim scholar and poet who co-founded the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. He was father of the scholars, [[Aziz-ur-Rahman Usmani]] and [[Shabbir Ahmad Usmani]]. His grandson [[Atiqur Rahman Usmani]] was the founder of [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Usmānī was born in 1831 in [[Deoband]].<ref>{{Citation |last1=Rahmān |first1=Abu Ukāsha |title=Tārīkh ke qātil|page= 45}}</ref> He was an alumnus of [[Zakir Husain Delhi College|Delhi College]] where he had studied under [[Mamluk Ali Nanautawi]].<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|pages=58–59 |edition=July 1999 |language=ur}}</ref> He was a Deputy Inspector of Schools in the Education Department.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dhulipala |first1=Venkat |title=Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=357 |edition=2015}}</ref> He co-founded [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] along with [[Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi]], [[Sayyid Muhammad Abid]] and others.<ref name="tayyabqasmi"/> He remained a member of the executive council of Darul Uloom Deoband throughout his life.<ref name="rizwi"/><br />
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Usmānī died on 15 June 1907.<ref name="tayyabqasmi"/> His most elder son was [[Aziz-ur-Rahman Usmani]], who served as the first Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband.<ref name="asir">{{cite book |last1=Adrawi |first1=Asir |author-link1=Asir Adrawi |title=Tazkirah Mashaheer-e-Hind: Karwan-e-Rafta |publisher=Darul Muallifeen |location=Deoband |pages=197–198 |edition=April 2016 |language=ur |chapter=Mufti Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani}}</ref> His another son, [[Shabbir Ahmad Usmani]] was among the founding figures of [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Abdul Qayyum Haqqani |title=Ijmāli wa Sawānihi Khāka |journal=Al-Qasim |volume=9 |issue=6,7,8 |pages=11–14 |series=Tazkirah wa Sawāneh, Allama Shabbir Ahmad Usmāni |publisher=Al-Qasim Academy |location=[[Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Nowshera]]}}</ref> His grandson [[Atiqur Rahman Usmani]] co-founded [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] and the [[All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Nayab Hasan Qasmi |title=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] Ka Sahafati ManzarNama |publisher=Idara Tehqeeq-e-Islami, [[Deoband]] |pages=176, 198}}</ref><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><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Usmānī's Persian poem ''Qissa-e Gham-e Diban'' is considered as a historical document related to [[Deoband]].<ref name="rizwi">{{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 = 1 |page =95 |edition=1980}}</ref><br />
==See more==<br />
* [[List of Deobandis]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Rahmān |first1=Abu Ukāshah |title=Tārīkh ke qātil |publisher=A P Offset Printers |location=[[Hyderabad]] |pages=44–53 |edition=January 2019 |url=https://archive.org/details/tareekhkeqaatilabuukashahrahman |language=Urdu |chapter=Hazrat Maulana Fazlur Rahmān Usmānī|date=January 2019 }}<br />
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