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Azamgarh district

منطقة أعظم كره

District of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Hamiduddin Farahi· Ijaz Ahmad Azmi· Muhammad Abu al-Layth Khayrabadi

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Amin Ahsan Islahi· Shibli Nomani· Mathura· Hamiduddin Farahi· Ijaz Ahmad Azmi· Muhammad Abu al-Layth Khayrabadi

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Amin Ahsan Islahi

Indian, then Pakistani, scholar and exegete (1904–1997) of Bamhur in Azamgarh district, the leading student of Hamiduddin Farahi and the bearer of his method of Qur'anic coherence. He graduated from Madrasatul Islah at Sara-e-Mir in 1922 and worked in journalism, then from 1925 devoted himself to study under Farahi, founded the Daira-i-Hamidiyyah, was a founder member of Jamaat-e-Islami and left it in 1958, completed his Urdu commentary Tadabbur-i-Qur'an in 1980 and died at Lahore.