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Ilyas al-Kandhlawi ( ) was the great scholar of Islam , the founder and the First Ameer (leader) of the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jamaat . Dr Mumtaz Ahmed writes: “Maulana Muhammad Ilyas, the founder of the Tablighi Jamaat of South Asian subcontinent, is arguably one of the most influential, yet least well-known, figures of twentieth century Islam . Despite his enormous contribution towards the development of a powerful grass root Islamic Da’wah movement, Maulana Ilyas has not received much attention in literature regarding modern Islamic movements. Most of the Western, and even Muslim, scholarships have remained occupied with the more dramatic manifestations of Islamic revivalist upsurge.1
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Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas is the founder of the Tablighi Jamaat of South Asian subcontinent. He is arguably one of the most influential, yet least well-known, figures of the twentieth century Islam. Mawlana Ilyas was born in 1885.
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Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī ( ) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Sufi who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement.
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Indian Islamic scholar Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1884 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925, in Mewat province .
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1st Amir of The Worldwide Tablighi Jamat (Grand founder of Dawah & Tablighi) Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar who founded the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic revivalist movement, in 1925, in Mewat province .TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish).
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1st Amir of The Worldwide Tablighi Jamat (Grand founder of Dawah & Tablighi) Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Kāndhlawī Dihlawī (1885 – 13 July 1944) was an Indian Islamic scholar of the Deobandi movement who founded the Tablighi Jamaat , in 1925, in Mewat province . TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish).
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founder of the tablighi jamaat of south asian subcontinent
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great scholar of islam
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