Arshad Madani

Arshad Madani (born in 1941) is an Indian Muslim scholar and the current Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. He is president of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind since 8 February 2006.[1][2]

Arshad Madani
President, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind
Assumed office
8 February 2006
Preceded by"post established"
11th Principal, Darul Uloom Deoband
Assumed office
14 October 2020
Preceded bySaeed Ahmad Palanpuri
TitleShaykh al-Hadith
Personal
Born1941 (age 79–80)
Deoband, United Provinces, British India
ReligionIslam
Parents
Citizenship Indian
DenominationSunni
Alma materDarul Uloom Deoband
OccupationIslamic scholar, Shaykh al-Hadith Darul Uloom Deoband

Career

Madani was appointed as the Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband on 14 October 2020.[3]

Political approach

He believes that India's division in 1947 grew from religious sectarianism among the population of British India and the violence related to it. He suggests that secularism is the only path to a cohesive and united India.[4]

He asserts that the current prime minister Narendra Modi is not acceptable to all Muslims of India. Muslim hostility to Modi is not softening recently at all as some circles in the Indian news media have suggested. He questions whether Indian Muslims can forgive Modi for initiating and condoning the 2002 Gujarat riots and the ensuing violence against Muslims in India, which Madani calls a mass murder of Muslims. Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat at that time.[5]

He caused controversy by making a statement amounting to "promoting enmity between communities" in the backdrop of updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam which led 3 FIRs registered against him in the state.[6]

References
  1. Maulana Arshad Madani addresses an Eid gathering on jamiatulamaihind.com website Archived 14 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Published 12 March 2016, Retrieved 17 July 2017
  2. "Its cowardly act, Jamiat condemns it Pulwama attack in strongest possible terms: Maulana Arshad Madani". Newsd www.newsd.in. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. "مہتمم دارالعلوم دیوبند مفتی ابو القاسم نعمانی شیخ الحدیث اور مولانا ارشد مدنی صدر المدرسین منتخب" [Abul Qasim Nomani, VC of Deoband appointed as Shaykh al-Hadīth, and Arshad Madani as the Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband]. AsreHazir. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  4. 'Arshad Madani of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind says Owaisis are traitors', dnaindia.com newspaper website, Published 17 January 2015, Retrieved 17 July 2017
  5. Indian TV interview of Maulana Arshad Madani on Headlines Today program, indiatoday website, Published 19 February 2013, Retrieved 17 July 2017
  6. "FIR filed against Maulana Arshad Madani; Assam Police examining alleged 'provocative speech'". The Shahab. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
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