al-Dihlawī, Shāh Walī Allāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Masud, Muhammad Khalid
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Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī b. Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Shāh Wajīh al-Dīn (1114-76/1703-62) was an outstanding Indian Muslim thinker of the eighteenth century, who applied critical thinking to Muslim tradition and called for reform, influenced revivalist reformist movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and continues to be source of inspiration for Muslim intellectuals . Born in Phalit, District Muẓaffar Nagar, India, he was given the name Aḥmad at birth by his maternal relatives. His father later named him Quṭb al-Dīn. ʿAẓīm al-Dīn