Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri | |
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Born |
Syed Shujaat Ali January 1941 Uttar Pradesh, India |
Died |
27 January 1993 |
Region | Pakistan |
School | Sunni, Hanafi |
Main interests
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Fiqh, Islamic Philosophy, Hadith |
Notable ideas
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Efforts to unite the ulema of Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘ah in Pakistan |
Influences
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Influenced
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27 January 1993
Jakarta, Indonesia
Justice Dr Mufti Syed Shuja’at Ali Qadri (Urdu: حضرت علامہ مفتی سید شجاعت علی قادری ) (January 1941 – 27 January 1993) was judge of Federal Shariat Court, a member of the Pakistani Council of Islamic Ideology and a scholar of Islamic Sciences and modern science. He was influenced by Imam Ahmed Raza Khan and worked for the Barelvi movement.
He involved himself with the work of authoring and publication besides holding various offices and wrote a number of texts. He authored a number of books on Islamic fiqh, economics and inheritance, and also translated some notable books from Arabic to Urdu.
Shujaat Ali Qadri was born in Uttar Pradesh, India, in January 1941. He was the son of Syed Masood Ali Qadri, who served in the office of Afta (Islamic jurisprudence) at the Jamia Islamia Anwar-ul-Uloom, a madrasah in Multan, Punjab (Pakistan). Qadri was the second eldest child of his father; his brothers are:
Qadri was the father of three sons and a daughter.
Qadri got his initial education from Madrasa-e-Arabia Hafizia Saadiya, District Dadu, Aligarh. He learned the Holy Quran from Ghulam Rabbani and Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi. He then, at the age of 10, migrated with his parents in 1951 to Multan, Pakistan and began his education in Madersah Anwar-ul-Ulum and eventually completed his darse nizami from this institute. He also received Ijaza or authority in the Qadri tariqa of Sufism from Pir Kifayat Ali Shah. He graduated from the Jamia Islamia Anwar-ul-Uloom, Multan at the age of eighteen. Besides this he achieved the following qualifications: