All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board

All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board
FounderMohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi
Location
  • House No. 20, Second Floor, First Lane, Johri Farm, Okhla, New Delhi, India
National President
Syed Mohammad Ashraf
Chief Patron
Pir Khwaja Ahmad Nizami
AffiliationsJamat-e-Ahle Sunnat Karnataka & World Urdu Association
Websiteaiumb.org
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The All India Ulama & Mashaikh Board (abbreviated as AIUMB)[13] is an Islamic Non-governmental Organisation and a representative body consisting the Sajjadanasheens of Dargahs, Imams of Mosques, the Teacher and Muftis working in the Madrasa belonging to the Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam. It was established in all the states and territories of India. It was formally founded by Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi.[14]

Initially started as representative body of Sunni Sufi Muslims of India, Currently, the AIUMB is defunct organization and apart from issuing press releases, it official website does not have any significant activity since several years. Its silence on relevant issues of Muslims of India and lip service without any activity against mob lynching's, illegal house demolition, NRC CAA and Waqf amendment Bill 2024 are seen with skeptical eyes. It has not organized any significant Conference on its past agenda since 2021 and also no annual meet has been organized since 9 February 2022.[15]

This Board is also active in securing workable reservation for Muslims in education and employment in proportion to their population. For this they have been organizing meetings in U.P, Rajasthan, Gujrat, Delhi, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chattisgadh, Jammu and Kashmir, and other states besides huge Sunni Sufi conferences and Muslim Maha Panchayets. Sunni conference (Muradabad 3 January 2011), Bhagalpur (10 May 2010) and Muslim Maha Panchayet at Pakbara Muradabad (16 October 2011) and also Mashaikh e tareeqat conference of Bareilly (26 November 2011), World Sufi Forum (16-20 March 2016), Sufi Conference at West Bengal (February 2019), Sufi Conference at Kashmir (September 2021) are some of the examples.

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  13. ^ [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] is a body of Sufi-orientated Indian Sunni Muslims.[11] It was founded by Mohammad Ashraf Kichhouchhwi.[12] It is a representative body consisting of the Sajjada Nasheen (Patrons-in-Chief) of Dargahs, imams of mosques, Muftis and teachers of madrasas.[citation needed]
  14. ^ Ewing, Katherine Pratt; Corbett, Rosemary R. (25 August 2020). Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond. Columbia University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-231-55146-5.
  15. ^ http://www.aiumb.org/%e0%a4%86%e0%a4%b2-%e0%a4%87%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%a1%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%af%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%89%e0%a4%b2%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%b5-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%b6%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%87%e0%a4%96-%e0%a4%ac%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%b0-8/