# Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi

Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi (born 25 January 1954), also written as Ateeque Ahmad Qasmi Bastawi and Ateeq Ahmed Bastavi, is an Indian Islamic scholar, jurist, and writer. He has been serving as a professor of Hadith and Fiqh at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow, since 1980. He is also the secretary of the Majlis-e-Tahqiqat-e-Shariah at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, the academic secretary of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, India, and the convener of the Dar-ul-Qaza Committee of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Bastawi is the founder and president of Ma'had-ush-Shariah in Lucknow and has authored and translated several notable works in Urdu on Islamic jurisprudence and theology.

## Early life and education

Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi was born on January 25, 1954, in Basti, a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. His father's name is Muhammad Rafique.
He began his education at a maktab in his hometown. He studied Arabic from the elementary to the intermediate level at Madrasa Noor-ul-Uloom in Bahraich. For further education, he enrolled at Darul Uloom Deoband and graduated in the Dars-e-Nizami curriculum in 1973. In 1974, he completed the Ifta course there. He also passed the Alim examinations from the Allahabad Board.

## Career

Since 1980, Bastawi has been serving as a teacher of Hadith and Fiqh at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow. He serves as the Academic Secretary of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, India; the Qazi-e-Shariah of Darul-Qaza, Lucknow; the founder and president of Ma'had-ush-Shariah in Lucknow; and the Convener of the Department of Qaza of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Since February 2020, he has also been serving as the Secretary of the Fiqh Institute, Majlis-e-Tahqiqat-e-Shariah, at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow.

## Literary works

Bastawi primarily has a temperament inclined toward Fiqh and research. To date, dozens of his scholarly, juristic, and research articles have been published in Arabic journals both in India and abroad, along with over two hundred Urdu articles that have appeared in periodicals across the Indian subcontinent. Even before joining Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in 1980, his articles had begun to be published in the monthly Al-Furqan, Lucknow.
He has translated several Arabic and Persian books, including the Urdu translation of Jamaluddin Atiyyah's Al-Tanzir Al-Fiqhi as Fiqh-e-Islami Ki Nazariyah Sazi, Atiyya's Al-Nazariyah Al-Ammah Lil-Shariah Al-Islamiyyah as Islami Shariat Ka Amoodi Nazariyah, and Syed Muhammad Zahir Hasani's Persian book Khair-ul-Masālik into Urdu. Similarly, he has published various books with his research and annotations, including Şihabetdin Märcani's Nāzūratul Haqq fi Fardiyyatil Isha Wa In Lam Yaghb Al-Shafaq, Rahmatullah Kairanawi's Izālat Al-Shukūk (in four volumes), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Al-Hīlah An-Nājizah.
His works include the following books:
* Masarif-e-Zakat (Uses of Zakat)
* Zakat aur Mas'ala-e-Tamleek (Zakat and the Issue of Ownership)
* Islami Nikah (Islamic Marriage)
* Hindustan aur Nizam-e-Qaza (India and the Islamic Judicial System)
* Hindustan mein Nifaz-e-Shariat (Implementation of Shariah in India)
* Mustalahat-e-Fiqhi (Terminologies of Islamic Jurisprudence)
* Chand Ashab-e-Fazeelat (Some Distinguished Companions)
* Fikr ki Ghalti (Waheed Khan Sahib ke Afkar ka Tanqeedi Jaaiza) ((The Error of Thought: A Critical Analysis of Wahiduddin Khan's Ideologies)
* Dawlat-e-Usmania aur Turkey ki Tareekh (The History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, in three volumes)
* Īsai Missionaries ki Sargarmiyan aur Musalman (Activities of Christian Missionaries and Muslims)
* Sahabi ki Tareef aur Sahaba ke Maqam wa Martaba ke Bare Mein Ghalat Fehmiyon ka Izala (Clarifying Misunderstandings About the Definition of a Sahabi and the Status and Rank of the Sahaba).
* Hindustan mein Muslim Personal Law ka Mas'ala (The Issue of Muslim Personal Law in India)
* Islam ka Nizam-e-Mīrāth (The Islamic System of Inheritance)
* Islami Sazain aur Jurm ka Roktham (Islamic Punishments and Crime Prevention)