Mahmood Ahmed Ghazi

Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi (13 September 1950 – 26 September 2010) was a Pakistani jurist and scholar of Islamic Studies, shariah and fiqh.

He was a professor at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, judge at the Federal Shariat Court and Federal Minister for Religious Affairs in Pakistan.

He completed his dars-e-nizami at the age of 16 and later obtained a PhD in Islamic Studies from Punjab University.

He was fluent in Urdu, English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and French.

He authored numerous works in Urdu and English, and translated Persian poetry Payam-e-Mashriq of Muhammad Iqbal into Arabic.

Ghazi was born on 13 September 1950 in Kandhla, Uttar Pradesh.

His father Muhammad Ahmad Farooqui was a disciple of Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi whilst his mother was niece of Izharul Hasan Kandhlawi.

Ghazi started memorizing al-Qur’ân from the madrasa of Mawlâna Siddĭq Ahmad, during stay with his (maternal) grandmother, and completed the Hifz (memorization) after migration to Karachi, Pakistan in 1954 from the madrasah of Qâri Waqa-Allah Panipati, at the age of eight years.

He started Dars-i Nizami from Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia, Karachi and completed the syllabus from Madrasa Ta‘lim al- Qur’ân, Rawalpindi in 1966.

He got the degrees of B.A. Hons.

(Arabic) in 1966; B.A. Hons.

(Persian) in 1968; M.A. (Arabic) in 1976; and PhD in 1998 from the University of the Punjab, Lahore.

Ghazi wrote about 30 books and more than 100 articles.

His Muhaazraat Series have also been published as separate books.

Muhaazraat Series are a collection of about 68 lectures, Ghazi had given at Idara al-Huda on different topics like Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, Seerat and Shariat.

His other notable books include:

Notable English works of Ghazi are:

Mehmood Ahmad Ghazi died on 26 September 2010.