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Maulvi Abbas Ali

Maulvi Abbas Ali was a prominent religious leader and Sunni cleric from Dumka, Jharkhand in India. Being a government school teacher, he served the Islamic society. He was a founder of Madrasa Raza-e-Mustafa, Chirudih, Dumka, J’khand. He was considered a moderate Maulvi and had fought for an end to illiteracy in the region.

Early life and education

Maulvi Abbas Ali was born on August 18, 1936 in Chirudih, J’khand, India from the influential Ajber Ali family. After his preliminary education in a school of his locality in Chirudih, he went on to excel in an Islamic education and moved to Patna, the capital of Bihar. After completion of the Alimiat in Patna, he moved to Jamia Muradabad for further studies, where he studied in the supervision of Mujahide Millat. Which was the centre of Islamic Theological School in India. After spending years in Jamia Muradabad, he came back to his village which was hunger of education and a well society. He joined government’s literacy programmes and awakened people from all the villages around. Thus he was commonly known and called “Maulvi Abbas” by his super active education programmes and movements. Besides being a scholar of Islamic studies and theology, he was also a literary personage, especially Arabic and Persian literature. His father Ajber Ali Miyan was a great landlord (Jagirdaar) in that area. His older son Wali Miyan was an officer in Forest Department and the younger son Kahtri Miyan was a well known in the field of Islamic science.

As a Teacher

After his higher education in Islamic Theology, he returned to his village with a high ambition and started realizing his dreams. He joined government’s education planning in 1967 as a primary teacher. As a teacher he served for a period of 40 years in many government schools in the Bihar and J’khand. As time passed by, he gathered good knowledge of teaching experience and wanted to apply his precious teaching experience in his village to make it a different in the District. He also gathered people from different villages and from his own village and formed a committee named “Raza Committee” for education especially for the poor and needy children, and appointed an Islamic teacher. Thus the committee started a new beginning to educate the people and the new generation.

A Strong Educationist

He was a government teacher and was busy in his teaching profession. But very keen on to serve the humanity as a teacher too. He founded a religious school/ madrassa named “Madrasa Raza e Mustafa” and become an active member of it. Through this Madrassa he served the community. Latter he spread this mission of education and launched three more madrassas in the District and he was the founder member of all three madrasas.

Death

Maulvi Abbas Ali died on the eve of the 23rd of December 2008 in Chirudih, Dumka. He is buried in his village’s grave yard. His urs is held every year in Chirudih and in various other madrassas around the District.

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