Bahr al-Uloom, Maulana Nematullah Azami | |
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President Islamic Fiqh Academy, India | |
Assumed office 30 May 2011 | |
Preceded by | Zafeeruddin Miftahi |
Personal | |
Born | Pura Maroof, then Azamgarh district, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India (now Mau district, Uttar Pradesh, India) | 24 December 1936
Religion | Islam |
Nationality | Indian |
School | Isha'atul Uloom Pura Maroof Darul Uloom Deoband |
Main interest(s) | Hadith, Fiqh, Biographical evaluation |
Teachers | |
Muslim leader | |
Nematullah Azami (born 24 December 1936), also written as Nematullah Azmi and Ni'matullah Azami, is an Indian Islamic hadith scholar, a commentator on the Quran (mufassir), and a faqīh (Islamic jurist). He is the president of India's Islamic Fiqh Academy. He has also been serving as a senior lecturer at Darul Uloom Deoband for forty years.