Bibliography of Ashraf Ali Thanwi explained

This bibliography of Ashraf Ali Thanwi is a selected list of generally available scholarly resources related to Ashraf Ali Thanwi, a leading Islamic scholar, philosopher, writer, preacher, reformer, the author of about one thousands books. He didn't write an autobiography during his lifetime. However, Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri, an authorized disciple of Thanwi, compiled a book from 1935 to 1943, into four volumes entitled Ashraf al-Sawaneh, which is the first and most important book and prime source on the biography of Thanwi.^[1] Another Maqalat Hakeemul Ummat was compiled in 34 volumes under the supervision of Taqi Usmani, collected from about 350 publications of Thanwi.^[2] This list will include his biographies, theses written on him and articles published about him in various journals, newspapers, encyclopedias, seminars, websites etc. in APA style.

Encyclopedias

• Book: Al-Azhari, Alauddin . Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam . . 1982 . 984-06-0252-7 . 5th . Sherbangla Nagar, Dhaka . 84–85 . bn.

Biographies

• Book: Abdullah, Mohammad . Life and works of Maulana Mujaddid Ashraf Ali Thanwi Rah . 2002 . Adam Publishers & Distributors . 81-7435-111-6 . 2nd . Delhi . en . 968650263 .
• Book: Abdush Shakūr Tirmizī, Sayyid . Ashrafulmaʻārif: Shāh Muḥammad Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī kī tafsīr va ḥ̣adīs . 2001 . Kutub Ḵẖānah Jamīlī ; Jāmiʻah Ḥaqqāniyyah . Lāhaur : Sargodhā . ur .
• Book: Ahmad, Furqan . Towards the Renaissance: Shibli and Maulana Thanvi on Sharia . 2018 . Indian Law Institute . 978-81-927926-3-7 . en .
• Book: ʻĀrifī . Muḥammad ʻAbdulḥaʼī . Maʾās̲ir-i Ḥakīmulummat: irshādāt va ifādāt . ʻAlvī . Masʻūd Aḥsan . 1976 . Ec.Em. Saʻīd Kampanī . Karācī . ur .
• Book: Ashraf, Rana Muhammad . Hazrat Hakeem Ul Ummat Aur Un K Khulfa Ki Siyasi Khidmaat Ka Jaiza . Idarah Talifat-e Ashrafiya . 2022 . India . ur .
• Book: Buk̲h̲ārī, Muḥammad Akbar Shāh . Karwan-e Thanwi : 192 disciples of Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Tahanawi . 1997 . Idaratul Ma'arif . Pakistan . ur .
• Book: Daryabadi, Abdul Majid. Abdul Majid Daryabadi. Ḥakīmul Ummat.. 1967. ur.
• Book: Hai . Mohammad Abdul . Fihrist-i taʾlīfāt-i Ḥakīmulummat . Memon . Muḥammad ʻAbdullāh. . 1987 . Maktabah-yi Dārulʻulūm ; Milne ke pate, Idārahyi Islāmiyāt . Karācī : Lāhaur . ur .
• Book: Ḥasan, Sayyid Maḥmūd. . Ḥaz̤rat Ḥakīmulummat Thānvī: akābir aur muʻāṣirīn kī naẓar me . 1976 . Kutub Ḵẖānah-yi Maẓharī . Silsilah-yi mat̤būʻāt-i Maktabah-yi Ashrafiyah ;5 . Karācī . ur .
• Book: Īlahābādī, Muḥammad ʻĪsʹa . Malfūẓāt-i kamālāt-i Ashrafiyah . 2003 . Idārah-yi Tālīfāt-i Ashrafiyah : Milne ke pate, Dārulishāʻat . Multān . ur .
  • Book: K̲h̲ān, Abdurraḥmān . Sīrat-i Ashraf . 1977–1979 . Shaiḵẖ Akaiḍaimī . Lāhaur . ur .
• Book: Khawaja, Ahmad Ali . Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi : his views on religious and moral philosophy, and tasawwuf . 1999 . Kitab Bhavan . 81-7151-269-0 . 1st . New Delhi . en . 863247988 .
• Book: Mumtazi . Muhammad Sikander . Hāẏāte Āśarāpha. . Abdul Huq . Muhammad . 1965 . ur .
• Book: Nadwī, Muḥammad Raḥmat Allāh Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Nāẓim . Ashraf ʻAlī al-Tahānawī: ḥakīm al-ummah wa-shaykh mashāyikh al-ʻaṣr fī al-Hind . 2006 . Dār al-Qalam ; al-Dār al-Shāmīyah . 880-04Aʻlām al-Muslimīn ;91 . Dimashq : Bayrūt . ar .
• Book: Nāṣir Tāvlavī, Abūlʻarfāt Muḥammad . Ḥaz̤rat-i Thānvī ke uṣūl va z̤vābit . 2001 . Maktabah-yi Ḥakīmulummat . Amārā, Z̤ilaʻ Bāg̲ẖpat . ur .
• Book: Parvez, Mohammed . Social and religious reforms of Maulānā Ashraf 'Alī Thānvī . 2017 . 978-81-7435-750-2 . New Delhi . 1038709379 . en .
• Book: Pernau, Margrit . Ashraf Ali Thanavi: Sermons and Pious Feelings . 2019 . Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India . 146–170 . Oxford University Press . en . 10.1093/oso/9780199497775.003.0007 . 978-0-19-949777-5 .
• Book: Saʻīd, Aḥmad . Maulānā Ashrafʻ ʻAlī Sāhib Thānvī aur taḥrīk-i āzādī. . 1972 . Ḵh̲ālid Nadīm Pablīkeshanz . Rāvalpinḍī . ur .
• Book: Saʻīd, Aḥmad . Bazm-i Ashraf ke cirāg̲h . 1975 . Maktabah-yi Aḥyāʻ-ul-ʻulūm alsharqīyah . Lāhaur . ur .
• Book: Siddiqui, Muhammad Ismail . Talifat-e Ashrafiyyah . India .
• Book: Zaman, Muhammad Qasim . Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi : Islam in modern South Asia . 2008 . Oneworld . 978-1-85168-415-1 . Oxford . 153580949 . en .

Theses

• Ahmad. Mian Bashir. An enquiry as to the relevance of the philosophy of education of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi to the present day needs of Education in Pakistan. University of Peshawar. 1991. Pakistan. en. PhD.
• Ali. Sayed Abrar. Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi's reformation method. University of Sindh. 1999. Pakistan. ur. PhD.
• Ashraf Ali al-Tahanawi and his effort in linking between hadith and sufism through his book Haqiqat al-tariqat min al-sunnah al-aniqah . . 2011 . MA . Muhammad Iqlim . Al-Rida . Malaysia . ar .
• Bano. Shazia. Religious Thought of the Subcontinent in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative and Contemporary Study of the Sufi and Social Trends of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi and Shah Abdul Qadir Rai Puri. The Women University Multan. 2022. Pakistan. ur. PhD.
• Hameed. Abdul. Fatwas approach in the Indian subcontinent through books: "Imdad Fatwas" by Mufti Ashraf Ali Al-Thanawy. International Islamic University, Islamabad. 2019. Pakistan. ar. PhD.
• Iqbal. Azhar. Tasawuf o Salook Ki Tajdeed o Islah Main Maulana Ashraf Ali Tahnvi Ki Khidmaat: Tehqeeqi Mutalia. University of the Punjab. 2018. Pakistan. ur. PhD.
• Islam. Muhammad. The Tradition in the Age of Modernity (A Critical Study of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanavi's Approach to Religion and Modernism). University of the Punjab. 2020. Pakistan. en. PhD.
• Khamidov . Odil . 2019 . Eşref Ali Tehânevî'nin Hayatı, Hadis İlmindeki Eserleri ve Görüşleri . MA . . Turkey . tr .
• Traditionalist Approaches to Shari'ah Reform: Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Fatwa on Women's Right to Divorce . 2008 . PhD . en . Fareeha . Khan . . 978-1243544063 . United States . 2027.42/60731 .
• Mian. Ali Altaf. Surviving Modernity: Ashraf Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India. Duke University. 2015. Durham, North Carolina, United States. en. 10161/9815. PhD.
• Mitu. Muhammad Younus. Allama Iqbal Aur Moulana Muhmmad Ashraf Thanvi K Afkar Ka Taqabli Mutala. Allama Iqbal Open University. 1999. Pakistan. en. PhD.
• Nawi. Zaharudin. Sheikh Ashraf Ali Thanawi: An Analytical Study Of His "Haqiqah Al-tariqah Min Al- Sunnah Al-aniqah". Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia. 2007. Kuala Lumpur. ar. PhD. 20 October 2022. 19 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221019215150/http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/10926. dead.
• Naz . Kehkashan . Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvis contribution the uplift of Muslim women . . 2022 . India . ur. PhD. 10603/508409.
• Nisar . Sumeera . The Sufi Thought Of Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanvi . . 2021 . India . en . 10603/476372 . PhD.
• Parvez. Mohammed. A study of the socio_religious reforms of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi. Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University. 2008. India. ur. 10603/52380. PhD.
• Rashid . Shazia . Aurat Aur Huquq e Niswan Muntakhab Ulama e Hind o Pak Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi Aur Maulana Abul Ala Maududi ki Tehreeron ke Aaine Mein . Department of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard University . 2016 . India . ur. PhD. 10603/447347.
• Rasul. Saifur Rehman. Educational services of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi Rh.. Department of Islamic culture, University of Sindh. 1992. Pakistan. ur. PhD.
• Ullah. Wasi. An Analytical Study Of Hadiths mentioned in Ashraf Ali Thanawi's al-Tashrruf bi M'arifah Ahādīth al-Tasawuf, which are not mentioned in the Sihah Sitta. Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia. 2019. Kuala Lumpur. ar. MA. 20 October 2022. 20 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221020011228/http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/8995. dead.
• Zia. Rehana. A Critical Study Of Bayanul Quran The Commentary Of The Quran By Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi With Special Reference To The Exegetical Literature In Urdu. Department of Sunni Theology, Aligarh Muslim University. 1982. India. ur. 10603/57075. PhD.

Journals

• Al-Ghazali . Muhammad . 2001 . Exegetical Urdu Translation of Imam Ashraf Ali Thanvi and some of its characteristics . Al-Dirasat Al-Islamiyyah . 36 . 3 . 0002-399X. en.
• Anwar . Sajid . 2019 . Tehreek Qiyam Pakistan: Intellectual Similarity of Abul Ala Maududi and Ashraf Ali Thanwi . Al-Idah . ur . 37 . 2 . 109–135 . 10.37556/al-idah.037.02.0567 . 213303113 . 2664-3375 . free .
• Ar-Rahman . Fahmid . 2020 . Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Spiritual-Political Thought . Punorpath . bn . 24–45 . 22 October 2022 . 22 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221022090537/https://www.punorpath.com/article/115/ . dead .
• Bano . Shazia . Pracha . Dr Kalsoom . 2019 . Social Reformation: A Study of Mawlānā Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī's Efforts and Approach . Al-Qamar . 2 . 1 . 245–256 . 2664-4398 . ur .
• Falak . Dr Nabeela . 2021 . Modern family issues and utilisation of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi's Thought . Al-Qawārīr . 2 . 4 . 1–10 . 2709-457X . ur .
• Farosh . Hassan . Khan . Abzahir . Adil . Muhammad . 2022 . An Introductory Study of Imdād ul-Fatawā of Hazrat Mulānā Ashraf 'Alī Thānvī: An Analyses . Al-Idah . en . 40 . – 2 . 261–276 . 10.37556/al-idah.040.02.0810 . 2664-3375. free .
• Faruque . Muhammad U. . 2021 . Eternity Made Temporal: Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī, a Twentieth-Century Indian Thinker and the Revival of Classical Sufi Thought . Journal of Sufi Studies . 9 . 2 . 215–246 . 10.1163/22105956-bja10009 . 242261580 . 2210-5948 . en .
• Hermansen . Marcia . 2007 . Rewriting Sufi Identity in the 20th Century: The Biographical Approaches of Maulānā Ashraf 'Alī T̲h̲ānvī and Khwājah Ḥasan Niẓāmī . Islamic Studies . 46 . 1 . 15–39 . 20839053 . 0578-8072 . en .
• Homma . Ryusei . 2020 . A Survey of Previous Studies on Ashraf 'Alī Thānavī and Subjects for Future Research . Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies . 13 . 182–210 . 10.14989/250334 . 1881-8323 . ja .
• Islam . Muhammad . 2012 . Review of Kitaabul Fiqh (Diin kii Baaté [sic]) ]. Islamic Studies . 51 . 1 . 103–108 . 23643929 . 0578-8072.
• Homma . Ryusei . 2021 . Ashraf 'Alī Thānavī's Conception of Sufism: Establishing the Stages of Knowledge about Ethics, Practices, and Metaphysics . Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies . 14 . 283–306 . 10.14989/262505 . 1881-8323 . ja .
• Kamran . Malak Shahid . 2021 . A scholarly review of the Methodology of Ashraf Ali Thanvi in "Tafseer Bayan-ul-Quran" . VFAST Transactions on Islamic Research . Ur . 9 . 4 . 152–163 . 2309-6519 .
• Khatoon . Saeeda . 1981 . The Traditional Rationalism Of Ashraf Ali Thanvi . . . 32 . 3 . 0021-0773 .
• Khan . Shafqat ullah . Khoso . Aijaz Ali . Badshah . Syed Naeem . 2020 . Mysticism And Ashraf Ali Thanawi, An Analytical Approach . The International Research Journal of Usooluddin . en . 4 . 1 . 19–24 . 2664-4940 .
• Mahdavi Rad . Mohammad Ali . Roshan Zamir . Mohammad Ibrahim . Heydari . Halima Khatoon . 2021 . Political and Social Thoughts of Ashraf Ali Tahanavi . 12- Studies Religion Muslems . fa . 7 . 13 . 255–278 . 2476-714X .
• Mian . Ali Altaf . Potter . Nancy Nyquist . 2009 . Invoking Islamic Rights In British India: Mawlana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Ḥuqūq al-Islam . The Muslim World . en . 99 . 2 . 312–334 . 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2009.01271.x .
• Naeem . Fuad S. . 2009 . Sufism and Revivalism in South Asia: Mawlānā Ashraf 'Alī Thānvī of Deoband and Mawlānā Aḥmad Razā Khān of Bareilly and their paradigms of Islamic revivalism . The Muslim World . en . 99 . 3 . 435–451 . 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2009.01279.x .
• Nasiri . Aliakbar . Dehani . Fatemeh . 2018 . The Recourse to the look Ashraf Ali Tahanavi and Khalil Ahmd Saharnpoory . Journal of Subcontinent Researches . 10 . 35 . 215–228 . 10.22111/jsr.2018.4624 . 2008-5710 .
• Pernau . Margrit . Stille . Max . 2021 . Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Sermons on the Love of the Prophet . Journal of Religious History . en . 45 . 1 . 25–49 . 10.1111/1467-9809.12727 . 226698611 . 0022-4227 . free . 21.11116/0000-0006-6BE7-E . free .
• Qasmi . Abdul Latif . 2011 . Apparent reasons for the numerous works of Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi . Mahnama Darul Uloom . ur . India . . 95 . 10 .
• Rashid . Burhan . 2022 . Principles And Methods For The Management And Regulation Of Finances In Islam: An Approach To Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanavi . International Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance Research . en . 9 . 1 . 1–13 . 10.46281/ijibfr.v9i1.1684 . 248093491 . 2576-4144 . free .
  • Sheraz . Khurram . 2020 . Analytical study of the views of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi and Maulana Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi on"Equator Al-Arsh" . Al-Bahis Journal of Islamic Sciences Research . 1 . 2 . 63–74 . ur . 2790-0460 .
• Tay . Ömer . 2021 . Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Views on Lataif in the Context of his Treatise "Risâletü'l-katâif mine'l-latâif" . Mesned İlahiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi . 12 . 2 . 357–382 . 10.51605/mesned.898526 . 245598440 . 2667-7075 . tr . free .
• Wani . Bilal Ahmad . 2016 . Tafsir Bayan al-Quran of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi: An Estimate . Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies . 4 . 2 . 198 . 2348-7186 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200720092920/http://www.ajms.co.in/sites/ajms2015/index.php/ajms/article/view/1645 . 20 July 2020 .
• Yüksel . Yakup . Tekin . Muhammet Ali . 2017 . Sufism In The Thought Of Ashref Ali Thanwi . Namık Kemal Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (NKUIFD) . 3 . 2 . 333–364 . 2147-9828 . tr .

Newspapers

• News: 15 July 2016 . Hakeem Ummat Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi . . ur.
• News: Haque . Mahfuzul . Mahfuzul Haque . 14 March 2015 . Remembering Hakimul Ummat Ashraf Ali Thanvi Rah. . bn . . Bangladesh .
• News: Kamal . Ajmal . 16 September 2011 . The making of the modern maulvi . . Pakistan. en.
• News: Mollah . Md. Abdul Majeed . 14 March 2021 . Ashraf Ali Thanvi: The legendary scholar of Muslim society formation . bn . . Bangladesh .

Seminars

• Husain . Akbar . Rashid . Tabassum . 2002 . Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi's viewpoint on the concepts of normality and abnormality . National Conference on Yoga and Indian Approaches to Psychology . en . India.

Websites

• Web site: Saeed . Ahmed . 15 May 2010 . Quaid-e-Azam & Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi . Quaid-e-azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah . en.
• Web site: Shabbir . Yusuf . 2017 . 100 Discourses of Shaykh Ashraf Ali Thanawi . Islamic Portal . en.

Other

Theses

• Riyasathullah . Mohamed . Ahadees Kay Urdu Tarajim . . 2012 . India . ur . 10603/295877 . PhD . 2023-10-25 . 2023-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231025050302/https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/295877 . live . 88.

Books

• Book: Metcalf, Barbara . Perfecting women : Maulana Ashraf ʻAli Thanawi's Bihishti zewar : a partial translation with commentary . 1990 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-91331-8 . Berkeley . en . 43476666.

Journals

• Sikand . Yoginder . 2011 . Deobandi Patriarchy: A Partial Explanation . Economic and Political Weekly . 46 . 19 . 35–41 . 41152370 . 0012-9976.

Notes and References

1. Parvez . Mohammed . A study of the socio_religious reforms of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi . . 2008 . India . ur . 10603/52380 . PhD . 147.
2. Web site: Maqalat Hakeemul Ummat (34 Volumes) . 19 October 2022 . Albalagh Bookstore.