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{{short description|Indian Sunni Muslim scholar}}
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{{Infobox religious biography
|religion= [[Islam]]
|honorific_prefix = {{small|Shaykh al-Adab wal Fiqh}}
|name = Izaz Ali Amrohi
|image = The Inscription on the grave of Shaikhul Adab Wal Fiqh Maulana Muḥammad I‘zaz Alī Amrohvi.jpg
|caption = Inscription on Izaz Ali Amrohi's grave in the [[Mazar-e-Qasmi|Qasmi Cemetery]] in Deoband
|title=
|birth_date = November 1882
|birth_place = [[Amroha]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|death_date = {{death year and age|1955|1882}}
|death_place = [[Deoband]], India
|resting_place = [[Mazar-e-Qasmi]], Deoband
|region = [[India]]
|denomination = [[Sunni]]
|jurisprudence = Hanafi
|movement = Deobandi
|main_interests = [[Arabic literature]], [[Fiqh]]
|notable_works= ''Nafhat al-Arab'', ''al-Ahadith al-mawdu’ah''
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
|occupation = Jurist
|influenced = [[Anzar Shah Kashmiri]], [[Muhammad Shafi]], [[Nur Uddin Gohorpuri]]
|office1 = 2nd Head Mufti of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
|term1 = 1928 to 1929
|predecessor1 = [[Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani]]
|successor1 = Riyazuddin Bijnori
|office2 = 9th Head Mufti of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]
|term2 = 1944 to 1946
|predecessor2 = Farooq Ahmad
|successor2 = [[Mahdi Hasan Shahjahanpuri]]
|students=[[Shah Abdul Wahhab (scholar, born 1894)|Shah Abdul Wahhab]] [[Shamsul Haque Faridpuri]] [[Abul Hasan Jashori]] [[Qazi Mu'tasim Billah]] [[Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri]] [[Naseer Ahmad Khan (scholar)|Naseer Ahmad Khan]]
}}
'''Izaz Ali Amrohi''' ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|اعزاز علی امروہوی}}}}; November 1882 – 1955) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Islamic scholar]] who served as the second and ninth Head Mufti of the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. His book ''Nafahtul Arab'' is taught in madrassas including the Darul Uloom Deoband.

==Biography==
Izaz Ali Amrohi was born in November 1882 in [[Amroha]], into the [[Kamboh Nawabs of Meerut|Kamboh Nawab]] family.<ref name="halaat2"/><ref name="asir">{{cite book |author1=Asir Adrawi |author-link1=Asir Adrawi |title=Tadhkirah Mashahir-e-Hind: Karwan-e-Rafta |publisher=Darul Muallifeen |location=[[Deoband]] |pages=37–38 |edition=2 April 2016 |language=ur}}</ref> He studied [[Quran]] with Qutbuddin, and memorized it under the supervision of Hafiz Sharfuddin. He learnt [[Persian language|Persian]] from his father and studied primary books of [[dars-e-nizami]] at Madrasa Arbi Gulshan Faiz in [[Tilhar]] with Maqsood Ali Khan. He then moved to Madrasa Ayn-ul-Ilm, where he studied ''Mulla Jami'' and ''Kanzud Daqaiq'' with Qari Basheer Ahmad and Persian and Fiqh books such as ''Sharah Wiqayah'' with [[Kifayatullah Dihlawi]].<ref name="halaat2">{{cite book |author1=Muhammad Haneef Gangohi |title=Halaat Musannifeen Dars e Nizami |publisher=[[Karachi]], Darul Ishaat |pages=246–251 |edition=March 2000 |url=https://archive.org/download/HalaatMusannifeenEDarsENizamiByShaykhMuhammadHaneefGangohi/Halaat%20Musannifeen%20-e-%20Dars%20-e-%20Nizami%20By%20Shaykh%20Muhammad%20Haneef%20Gangohi.pdf |access-date=21 March 2020 |language=ur |chapter=Sahib-e-Nafhatul Arab}}</ref> At the request of Qari Basheer Ahmad and Kifayatullah Dihlawi, Ali moved to the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] where he studied with [[Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad]], the then vice chancellor of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] and [[Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri]].<ref name="halaat2" />

Ali was about to complete one year in Deoband, that he travelled to Meerut, where he met [[Aashiq Elahi Meerthi]]. At Meerthi's request, he stayed at Meerut and studied the books of "aruuz" and "usool" with him, while books of logic, philosophy, and the books of [[Kutub al-Sittah]], except ''[[Sahih Bukhari]]'' with Abdul Momin Deobandi.<ref name="halaat2" /> He moved to Deoband again and studied ''Sahih Bukhari'', ''Tirmidhi'', ''Sunan Abu Dawud'' and ''Baydawi'' with [[Mahmud Hasan Deobandi]]. Ali specialized in [[Islamic jurisprudence]] under [[Azizur Rahman Usmani]] and studied [[Arabic]] literature with Muizuddin Ahmad.<ref name="halaat2" /> He graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1903.<ref name="mahbub">{{cite book |author1=[[Syed Mehboob Rizwi|Maulana Mehboob Rizwi]] |translator=Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi |title=History of The [[Darul Uloom Deoband|Dar al-Ulum Deoband]] (Volume 2) |publisher=Idara-e-Ehtemam, [[Darul Uloom Deoband|Dar al-Ulum Deoband]] |pages=63–66, 187–189 |date=1981 |language=en}}</ref>

After his graduation from the Darul Uloom Deoband, Mahmud Hasan Deobandi sent him to Madrassa Nomaniyah, in Pureni, [[Bhagalpur]] where he taught for over seven years. Then he moved to [[Shahjahanpur]] and established Afzal al-Madaris in a mosque where he taught for nearly three years without taking any fees. Ali was appointed a teacher in the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1911, where he taught elementary books of Arabic such as ''Ilm al-Sigha'', ''Nur al-Izah'' during the first year. His academic career in the Darul Uloom lasted for over 44 years.<ref name="mahbub" /> He served as the Head Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband twice: first time from 1928 to 1929 and second time from 1944 to 1946 and about 24,855 [[fatwa]]s were written under his authority. He taught ''[[Sahih al-Bukhari]]'' in the absence of [[Hussain Ahmad Madani]] and in the last phase of his life, he also taught the second volume of ''[[Tirmidhi]]'' for several years.<ref name="mahbub" /> His students include [[Muhammad Shafi]],<ref name="akabir">{{cite book |author1=[[Taqi Usmani]] |title=Akabir-e-Deoband Kya Thy |publisher=Zamzam Book Depot, [[Deoband]] |page=71 |edition=May 1995 |language=ur}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=حیات مفتی اعظم / Ḥayāt-i Muftī-yi A'ẓam|author=Muhammad Rafi Usmani|date=May 2005|orig-year=First published 1994|publisher=ادارة المعارف / Idāratul-Ma‘ārif|location=Karachi|language=ur}}</ref> [[Anzar Shah Kashmiri]],<ref name="ilmgate">{{cite web |author1=Muhammadullah Khalili Qasmi |title=Mawlana Anzar Shah Kashmiri: A Tribute to His Life and Services |url=http://www.ilmgate.org/mawlana-anzar-shah-kashmiri-a-tribute-to-his-life-and-services/ |website=IlmGate.org |date=28 October 2010 |access-date=21 March 2020}}</ref> [[Muhammad Salim Qasmi]]<ref name="obituary">{{cite web |title=Obituary: Maulana Muhammad Salim Qasmi, an ocean of knowledge |url=http://twocircles.net/2018apr28/422881.html |website=TwoCircles.net |date=28 April 2018 |access-date=21 March 2020}}</ref> and [[Rasheed Ahmad Ludhianvi]].<ref name="uloom">{{cite web |last1=Nawhami |first1=Muhammad Saifur Rahman |title=Ludhyanwi, Rashid Ahmad - d. 1422 |url=https://uloom.com/dibaj/article/121011501 |website=Uloom.com |publisher=Uloom |access-date=21 March 2020 |location=London |archive-date=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321133738/https://uloom.com/dibaj/article/121011501 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Ali died in 1955 and was buried in Qasmi graveyard of the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]].<ref name="mahbub" /> His student Anzar Shah Kashmiri has written his biography, entitled ''Tadhkiratul Izaz''.<ref name="halat">{{Cite book|title=Halaat Musannifeen Dars e Nizami|publisher=Darul Ishaat |location= [[Karachi]]|page=4}}</ref>

==Literary works==
Izaz Ali Amrohi wrote ''Nafhat al-Arab'', a book taught in the contemporary dars-e-nizami curriculum including Darul Uloom Deoband.<ref name="mahbub" /><ref name="gazali">{{cite web |title=مولانا محمد اعزاز علی امروہیؒ صاحبِ نفحۃ العرب کی اردو شاعری |url=http://algazali.org/index.php?threads/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%92-%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A8%D9%90-%D9%86%D9%81%D8%AD%DB%83-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8-%DA%A9%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C.8894/ |website=AlGazali.org |date=15 July 2015 |access-date=21 May 2019}}</ref> His other books include ''al-Ahadith al-mawdu’ah'' <ref>{{Cite web|title=Ta'aruf-o-Tabsirah al-Ahadith al-mawdu'ah|url=http://www.darululoom-deoband.com/urdu/magazine/new/tmp/16-Taaruf%20Wa%20Tabsira_MDU_3-4_January_12.htm|website=darululoom-deoband.com|access-date=18 July 2019}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[List of Deobandis]]

==References==
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*[https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/56235 Contribution of Maulana Aizaz Ali _d 1374AH_ to Arabic studies: a critical study]

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| title = 2nd Head Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband
| years = 1928 - 1929
| before = [[Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani]]
| after = Riyazuddin Bijnori
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| title = 9th Head Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband
| years = 1944 - 1946
| before = Farooq Ahmad
| after = [[Mahdi Hasan Shahjahanpuri]]
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