Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Ashraf Ali Thanvi was a scholar of the Deobandi movement who was one of the central figures of religious life in South Asia and continues to be highly influential. He wrote many works such as Amal e-Qurani, a famous book that features Qur'an-based spells such as one to cause separation and dislike for two people.

He was a graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband, where he studied the Hanafi madhab and Sufism. That ended in him becoming one of the top scholars of the Deobandi movement. After his studies at at the seminary, he moved to Kanpur and then to Thana Bhawan, where he died.

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