Fakhr-ul-Hind, Mawlana Habibur Rahman Usmani | |
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| 9th Vice Chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband | |
| In office 1928 – 5 December 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad |
| Succeeded by | Qari Muhammad Tayyib |
| Deputy VC of Darul Uloom Deoband | |
| In office 1907–1925 | |
| Succeeded by | Qari Muhammad Tayyib |
| Grand Mufti of Hyderabad State | |
| In office December 1925 – September 1926 | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1277 AH (1860/1861 AD) Deoband, Saharanpur district, North-Western Provinces, British India |
| Died | 6 December 1929 (aged 68–69) Deoband, Saharanpur district, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India |
| Religion | Islam |
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| Denomination | Sunni Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi |
| Alma mater | Darul Uloom Deoband |
| Teachers | |
| Occupation | Islamic scholar, muhaddith |
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Habibur Rahman Usmani (1860–1929), also written as Habibur Rahman Deobandi and Maulāna Habib al-Rahmān, was an Indian Islamic scholar, Arabic writer and poet, and an Islamic jurist. He served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, then Vice-Chancellor for the VC Office of Darul Uloom Deoband, for nearly twenty-three years. He succeeded Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad as Grand Mufti of Hyderabad State for about one year. His students included Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Manazir Ahsan Gilani, Muhammad Shafi Deobandi, Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami, Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi, Atiqur Rahman Usmani, Qari Muhammad Tayyib, Badre Alam Merathi, Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi, Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi, Manzoor Nomani, and Yusuf Banuri.