Maulana Abdul Bari 'Firangi Mahali , (b.1878 – d.1926) is one of the most famous Firangi Mahal

Firangi mahal

Firangi Mahal , also spelled Farangi Mahal is a Religious Higher education school in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.-Earliest History:...

 scholars.

Family

His family shifted from Sihali, Barabnaki

Barabanki District

The Barabanki district is one of four districts of Faizabad division, lies at the very heart of Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and forms as it were a centre from which no less than seven other districts radiate...

 to the Firangi Mahal

Firangi mahal

Firangi Mahal , also spelled Farangi Mahal is a Religious Higher education school in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.-Earliest History:...

 around 1695.

In 1915 he was residing in Barabnaki

Barabanki District

The Barabanki district is one of four districts of Faizabad division, lies at the very heart of Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and forms as it were a centre from which no less than seven other districts radiate...

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In 1916 he was assistant professor in Pune

Pune

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Institutions

• In his opposition to the Western education, he founded Madarssa-i-Nizamia in Lucknow
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• He set up Anjuman-i-Khuddam-i-Kabba (1914) to prevent desecration of Muslim Holy places by the British
  United Kingdom
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• He was the founder President of Jamiat-e-ulama-e-Hind
  Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
  Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind or is one of the leading Islamic organizations in India. It was founded in 1919 by Abdul Mohasim Sajjad, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Ahmed Saeed Dehlvi, and Abdul Bari Firangi Mehli...
  
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• He was the founder member of Darul Mussannefin Shibli Academy, (1915-1916).
• He was the founder committee member of Jamia Millia Islamia
  Jamia Millia Islamia
  Jamia Millia Islamia is an Indian Central University located in Delhi. It was established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India in 1920. It became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988...
  
  , Aligarh in United Province
  United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
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  s, India, (1920).

Politics

During First World War he asked Sultan

Caliph

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 of Turkey

Turkey

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 to support Britain

United Kingdom

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 or remain out of the war.

On January 26, 1919 he presided over a protest meeting in Lucknow

Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

 against the British attitude against Muslims.^,

He was highly active in the Khilafat movement

Khilafat Movement

The Khilafat movement was a pan-Islamic, political campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government and to protect the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I...

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He preached Hindu

Hindu

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-Muslim

Muslim

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 unity and was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...

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Books

He authored around 111 books. Some of them are:

Title	Subject	Language	Barcode Barcode A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. Originally barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1 dimensional . Later they evolved into rectangles,...	Year	Reference(s)/Note(s)
Ilm e Akhlaq (Manual Of Ethics)	Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational... , Psychology Psychology Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...	Urdu Urdu Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...	-	1923
Berkeley, Vol-I	Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...	Urdu Urdu Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...	2990110005662	1924	,
Berkeley Aur Uska Falsafa, Vol-II (Mubadi Ilm-e-Insaani)	Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...	Urdu Urdu Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...	2990100069025	1926	,

External links

• Pan-Islam in British Indian politics: a study of the Khilafat Movement, 1918 By M. Naeem Qureshi