Madanī, Ḥusayn Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Metcalf, Barbara D.
Leiden
Brill
(1,463 words)
Mawlānā Sayyid Ḥusayn Aḥmad Madanī (1879-1957) was the foremost madrasa -based Islamic scholar to participate actively in the Indian nationalist movement and oppose, on both pragmatic and Islamic grounds, the creation of the separate state of Pakistan. Madanī attended the Dār al-ʿUlūm at Deoband, a major centre for reformist Ḥanafī scholarship, where he studied with Mawlānā Maḥmūd al-Ḥasan (d. 1920) and became a disciple in taṣawwuf (Ṣūfism) of Mawlānā Rashīd Aḥmad Gangohī (d. 1905). In 1892, his pious father resigned as a government schoolteacher and moved the