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BOOK REVIEW – NOOR’E DIL

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 (Biography of Ameer’e Shariat Syed Muhammad Qasim Shah Bukhari- R.a)  By : ZEESHAN RASOOL KHAN A great Sunni scholar, Sufi, preacher, writer, journalist, and visionary leader Allama Syed Qasim Shah Bukhari (1910–2000) is one of the far-famed religious personalities of our valley. Even after decades of his death, he stands out to be peerless in all facets. Consequently, those who know him mention him with reverence and those not knowing desire to know him. For that reason, he has always been part of the research, intellectual conversations, and religious discourses and this is going on. Soon after his departure, his disciples, students, associates, and well-wishers expressed their opinions to pay tribute to their mentor. All those were recorded and published by Anjuman Tableegul Islam in its special edition of the official organ Monthly Al-Aetiqaad - Allama Bukhari Number (Feb. 2001). After that, Bukhari's student, a walking-encyclopedia, Molana Showkat Hussain Keng authored his bi

BOOK REVIEW AMEER’E SHARIAT ALLAMA BUKHARI aur UN KAY AQAID

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 AMEER’E SHARIAT ALLAMA BUKHARI aur UN KAY AQAID Author : SYED ARIF AHMAD QADRI  Review by Zeeshan Rasool Khan Syed Muhammad Qasim Shah Bukhari (1910-2000), (President of Anjuman Tableegul Islam 1960-2000) was an illustrious religious scholar, writer, preacher, journalist, and social activist who colossally contributed to the spread of Islam in Jammu and Kashmir. Syed Qasim Shah Bukhari wrote more than a hundred books on various subjects of Islam. Besides translating and interpreting Quran in Urdu and Kashmiri, he translated literary works of great Sufi scholars cum saints like; Mir Syed Ali Hamdani (R.a), Baba Dawud Khaki, etc. He established Hanafi Arabic College in the heart of Srinagar city. He traveled far and wide with a vision of educating the masses. For that, he successfully started religious seminaries and English medium schools in the length and breadth of the valley. Under his leadership historical religious gatherings took place in every nook and corner of the valley int