By Abu ʿĀṣim Badrul Islām Born in Bāngar, Mao, the Indian district of Annow on 19 Shawwāl 1296 AH (5 October 1879 CE), Shaykh al-Islām Mawlānā Sayyid Ḥusayn Aḥmad Madanī began his primary Islāmic education in Faizābād. At the age of twelve he travelled to the Dār al-ʿUlūm at Deoband where he studied the intermediate and higher level books of the traditional Dars-e-Niẓāmī course. During his seven and a half years at the Dār al-ʿUlūm the Shaykh al-Islām studied about sixty books, twenty four of which were taught by the legendary imām of undivided India, Shaykh al-Hind Mawlānā Maḥmūd al-Ḥasan…
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