Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali Explained

Religion:	Islam
Abdul Bari Firangi Mahli
Birth Date:	1878
Death Date:	1926

Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali (1878–1926) was an Indian Muslim scholar and writer from the Firangi Mahal palace in Lucknow.^[1] He authored 111 books.

History

His descendants moved from Sihali, Barabanki to the Firangi Mahal around 1692.^[1] In 1915, he was residing in Lucknow.

Politics

During the First World War he asked the Sultan of Turkey to support Britain or remain out of the war.^[2]

On 26 January 1919 he presided over a protest meeting in Lucknow against the British attitude against Muslims.^{[3] [4]}

He was highly active in the Khilafat movement.^[1]

He preached Hindu-Muslim unity, especially during the Khilafat agitation, and was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi. On other occasions, he urged Muslims not to sacrifice cows in respect of the Hindus.^[5]

Institutions

• In his opposition to Western education, he founded Madarssa-i-Nizamia in Lucknow.
• He set up Anjuman-i-Khuddam-i-Kabba (1914) to prevent desecration of Muslim Holy places by the British.
• He was the founder member of Darul Mussannefin Shibli Academy, (1915–1916).^[6]
• He was the founder member of Jamia Millia Islamia in United Provinces, India (1920).^[7]

See also

• Ansari (nesbat)
• Islam in India

External links

• Pan-Islam in British Indian politics: a study of the Khilafat Movement, 1918 By M. Naeem Qureshi

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cam Diary: Lucknow's Farangi Mahal. Daily Times (newspaper). https://web.archive.org/web/20070422221400/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-1-2003_pg3_6. 22 April 2007. 22 August 2019.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=HUo4AAAAIAAJ&dq=Abdul+Bari+Nadvi&pg=PA140 Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915–1922 By Judith M. Brown
3. https://www.jafariyanews.com/articles/2k4/21nov_baqihistory.htm Jafariya News, 21 November 2004
4. http://www.tnfj.org.pk/historicpersp.htm The historic perspective of Inhidaam-e-Jannatul Baqee & Jannatul Mualla
5. September 1923. Francis Robinson, Separatism Among Indian Muslims, Delhi, 1975, p. 339.
6. http://www.shibliacademy.org/founding_people Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy
7. Web site: Jamia Millia Islamia, A Historical Note. https://web.archive.org/web/20070630204759/http://www.jmi.nic.in/HistoryofJamia.htm. 30 June 2007. 22 August 2019.