Maulana Ilyas
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| Muslim Scholar 20th Century |
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Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhelivi
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| Birth | 1885 |
| Death | 1944 |
| School/tradition | Sunni Islam |
| Notable ideas | Basic principles and practices of Islam and Global brotherhood Founder of the Tablighi Jamaat |
| Influenced by | Sahaba,s dawah practice |
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Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhelvi was the founder of the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jamaat. Born in 1885 to a family of religious scholars, his early education was completed at home. He was then sent to study at the famous centre of Islamic learning, Darul Uloom Deoband, where he studied under several famous Ulema. After completing his studies, he taught at various madrassas. In the late 1920s founded Tablighi Jamaat.
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[edit] Revival in Islamic History
Maulana Ilyas has not received much attention in the literature on modern Islamic movements. The available literature on Maulana Ilyas and his Tablighi movement was mostly in Urdu. Now the modern western libraries have the translation of all books in English, German, Bangoli, Hindi, Persian, Chinese, French, Arabic and Dutch.
[edit] Tabligi Jamaat
Tabligi Jamaat was founded in the late 1920s in the Mewat province of India. He didn't assign any name to this movement because his point of view was that, it is the duty of each and every Muslim of the world to give dawah. The people of South Asia started calling the devotees Tableeghi.
