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Shibli Nomani

Shibli Nomani
شبلی نعمانی
Professor at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
In office
1882–1898
Secretary of Education Department at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama
In office
1905–1913
Personal details
Born(1857-06-04)4 June 1857
Azamgarh, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died18 November 1914(1914-11-18) (aged 57)
Spouse
Majidunnessa
(m. 1876)
Children3
Parents
  • Shaikh Habibullah (father)
  • Moqeema Khatoon (mother)
Personal life
NationalityBritish Indian
Main interest(s)Literature, History, Modernism, Islamic philosophy, Politics, Education
Notable work(s)
Religious life
DenominationSunni
LineageRajput
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi
Movement
Senior posting
TeacherAhmad Ali Saharanpuri
Faizul Hasan Saharanpuri
Websiteshibliacademy.org

Shibli Nomani (4 June 1857 – 18 November 1914) was an Indian Islamic scholar, poet, philosopher, historian, educational thinker, author, orator, reformer and critic of orientalists during the British Raj.[1][2] He is regarded as the father of Urdu historiography.[3] He was also proficient in Arabic and Persian languages.[4] Shibli was associated with two influential movements in the region, the Aligarh and the Nadwa movements.[5] As a supporter of the Deobandi school, he believed that English language and European sciences should be incorporated into the education system.[6] Shibli wrote several biographies of Muslim heroes, convinced that Muslims of his time could learn valuable lessons from the past.[3] His synthesis of past and modern ideas contributed significantly to Islamic literature produced in Urdu between 1910 and 1935.[7] Shibli established the Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy in 1914 to promote Islamic scholarship and also founded the Shibli National College in 1883. He collected much material on the life of Muhammad, and completed the first two volumes of the planned work, Sirat al-Nabi. His disciple, Sulaiman Nadvi, added to this material and wrote the remaining five volumes after Shibli's death.

  1. ^ Yeaqub, Md (2018). "Analytical Study Of Allamah Shibli's Persian Poetry" (PDF). Global Journal for Research Analysis. 7 (10): 88. ISSN 2277-8160.
  2. ^ "How Urdu and India Influenced Afghan and Iranian Reformers". thewire.in. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b Esposito, John L. (2003), "Shibli Numani, Muhammad", The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195125580.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-512558-0
  4. ^ Yeaqub 2018, p. 88.
  5. ^ Zaman, Maheen (2018), "Shibli Numani", in Kassam, Zayn R.; Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg; Bagli, Jehan (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 635–636, doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_877, ISBN 978-94-024-1267-3
  6. ^ Bhardwaj, Dr Kamal (1 January 2002). History of Modern India. Prabhat Prakashan. pp. 322–323. ISBN 978-93-5266-745-1.
  7. ^ Abdullah, Mohammad (1982), Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam (in Bengali) (5th ed.), Sherbangla Nagar, Dhaka: Islamic Foundation Bangladesh, pp. 383–384, ISBN 984-06-0252-7

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