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Rashīd Aḥmad Gangohī (1829–1905) was an Islamic scholar, cofounder of the Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband madrasa, and author of an influential collection of fatwas.
Life
Rashīd Aḥmad Gangohī (1829–1905) was the cofounder of the influential Deoband School of north India and one of the most important Islamic religious scholars (‘ulamā’) of nineteenth-century India. He was born in 1829 in the north Indian village of Gangoh. His family boasted a long line of shaykhs linked to the scholarly circles of Delhi; his father studied with the family of Shāh Walī Allāh but died young, after which Gangohī left home and eventually settled in Delhi to pursue his studies, following brief sojourns in Karnal and Rampur. He stayed in Delhi for 4 years, studying with the famed teacher Mamlūk ‘Alī (d. 1850) of Delhi College. There he became intimately linked to two other students of Mamlūk ‘Alī’s, Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautawī (d. 1877) and Hājjī Imdādullah al-Makkī (d. 1899), a revered Ṣūfī shaykhof the...
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Ingram, B. (2018). Rashīd Aḥmad Gangohī. In: Kassam, Z.R., Greenberg, Y.K., Bagli, J. (eds) Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_860
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