Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Zaman, Muhammad Qasim
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Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī (1863-1943) was a major Ṣūfī and religious scholar of twentieth-century South Asia. 1. Life Thānavī was born on 5 Rabīʿ II 1280/19 September 1863, in Thāna Bhavan (Thāna Bhavan), a small town in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), in northern India. He received his advanced education at the Dār al-ʿUlūm of Deoband, a madrasa founded in 1867, with which thousands of other "Deobandī" madrasa s throughout South Asia and beyond have come to share their doctrinal orientation. Thānavī graduated from the Dār