Zafeeruddin Miftahi

Mawlāna, Mufti
Zafeeruddin Miftāhi
2nd President of Islamic Fiqh Academy
In office
2002 – 31 March 2011
Preceded byMujahidul Islam Qasmi
Succeeded byNematullah Azami[1]
Personal
Born7 March 1926
Darbhanga, British India
(present day Bihar, India)
Died31 March 2011(2011-03-31) (aged 85)
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni Hanafi
MovementDeobandi
Notable work(s)Compilation of the Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband of Azizur Rahman Usmani, Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid
Alma materJamia Miftahul Uloom
Muslim leader

Zafeeruddin Miftāhi (7 March 1926 – 31 March 2011) was an Indian Muslim scholar and jurist who served as a Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband and the second president of Islamic Fiqh Academy. He compiled the religious verdicts of Azizur Rahman Usmani, called the Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband in twelve volumes and wrote books including Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid, Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat and Tārīkh-e-Masājid.

Miftāhi was an alumnus of Jamia Miftahul Uloom. He was a member of Board of Studies at the Sunni Theology department of Aligarh Muslim University. He served the Deoband seminary for fifty years and issued one hundred thousand religious edicts.

  1. ^ "Maulana Nematullah Azmi elected as president of Islamic Fiqh Academy". Two Circles. 31 May 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2020.