ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dihlawī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Masud, Muhammad Khalid
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ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dihlawī (1159-1239/1746-1824), a son and successor of the great Indian scholar and reformer Shāh Walī Allāh (1114/1703-1175/1762), is known for his religious scholarship and for continuing Walī Allāh's reconciliatory efforts among various Muslim groups in Delhi. Rizvi refutes the commonly held view that ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz was Walī Allāh's eldest son, and affirms that this was Mawlawī Muḥammad (d. 1208/1793), born by Walī Allāh's first wife. After the death of his first wife, Shāh Walī Allāh married