{"key": "/authors/OL1300A", "links": [{"url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashraf_Ali_Thanwi", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Wikipedia"}], "source_records": ["promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-04-01", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:283254786:422", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.12.20150123.full.mrc:384924012:415", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:701596398:460", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:701828793:513"], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "162236339", "wikidata": "Q348127", "isni": "0000000118048588", "lc_naf": "n82107885"}, "alternate_names": ["Ashraf \u02bcAli\u0304 Tha\u0304nvi\u0304", "Ashraf Ali Thanvi", "Ashraf Ali Thanvi.", "A. A. Thanvi", "M. Thanvi", "Ashraf \u02bbAli Thanvi", "Maulana Ashraf Thanvi", "M. A. A. Thanvi", "M. Ashraf Ali Thanvi", "Ahsraf Ali Thanvi", "Asahraf Ali Thanvi", "Ashraf \u02bbAl\u012b Th\u0101nv\u012b", "Ashraf \u02bbAli\u0304 Tha\u0304nvi\u0304", "Ashraf Ali Thanyi", "Thanwi, Ashraf Ali Maulana.", "Ashraf \u02bbAli Tha\u0304nvi\u0304", "Ashraf Al\u012b Th\u0101nv\u012b", "Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanwi", "Ashraf Ali Thanwi", "Ashraf Ali\u0304 Tha\u0304nvi\u0304", "Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanwi", "Ashraf Ali Thanavi", "Ali Thanui Ashraf", "Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi", "Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi", "Ashraf `Ali Thanavi", "Ashraf `Ali Thanvi", "Ashraf \u02bbAli Thanavi"], "title": "Maulana.", "personal_name": "Ashraf \u02bbAli\u0304 Tha\u0304nvi\u0304", "death_date": "July 4, 1943", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "birth_date": "August 19, 1863", "photos": [-1], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Ashraf 'Ali Thanwi (August 19, 1863 \u2013 July 4, 1943) was a prominent Indian Sunni Muslim scholar of the Deobandi school.\r\n\r\nThanwi graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1884. After his graduation, Thanwi taught religious sciences in Kanpur for fourteen years. Over a short period of time, he acquired a reputable position as a religious scholar, of Sufism among other subjects. His teaching attracted numerous students and his research and publications became well known in Islamic institutions. During these years, he traveled to various cities and villages, delivering lectures in the hope of reforming people. Printed versions of his lectures and discourses would usually become available shortly after these tours. Until then, few Islamic scholars had had their lectures printed and widely circulated in their own lifetimes. The desire to reform the masses intensified in him during his stay at Kanpur.\r\n\r\nAshraf Ali Thanwi was a prolific author. His literary contributions are in the order of eight hundred to one thousand in number, including sermons, discussions, discourses, treatises, and books.\r\n\r\nThanwi died in Th\u0101na Bh\u0101wan on July 4, 1943. His funeral prayer was led by his nephew, Zafar Ahmad Uthm\u0101n\u012b, and he was buried in the graveyard of 'Ishq-e-B\u0101z\u0101n."}, "name": "Ashraf \u02bbAli\u0304 Tha\u0304nvi\u0304", "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-17T20:20:25.961104"}}