28 Facts About Taqi Usmani

Muhammad Taqi Usmani was born on 3 October 1943 and SI, OI, is a Pakistani Islamic jurist and leading scholar in the fields of Qur'an, Hadith, Islamic law, Islamic economics, and comparative religion.

Taqi Usmani was a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology from 1977 to 1981, a judge of the Federal Shariat Court from 1981 to 1982, and a judge in the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002.

Taqi Usmani is considered a leading intellectual of the contemporary Deobandi movement, and his opinions and fatwas are widely accepted by Deobandi scholars and institutions worldwide, including the Darul Uloom Deoband in India.

Taqi Usmani began teaching at Darul Uloom Karachi in 1960.

Taqi Usmani is recognized as an authority in the field of Islamic law and its application.

Taqi Usmani is a permanent member of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy of the OIC and a former deputy chairman.

Taqi Usmani is a member of the Muslim World League based in Mecca.

Taqi Usmani is the author of 143 books on various subjects in Arabic, English, and Urdu.

Taqi Usmani is widely recognized for his contributions to Islamic economics, where he has played a leading role in Islamizing the banking and finance industry in Pakistan and abroad.

Taqi Usmani has served as the Chairman of the Shariah Board in more than a dozen Islamic banks and financial institutions.

Taqi Usmani has authored translations and explanations of the Quran in both English and Urdu, which were published as The Noble Quran and Tauzeeh Al-Qur'an, respectively.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani was born on 5 Shawwal 1362 AH in the city of Deoband in Saharanpur district, United Provinces, British India.

Taqi Usmani was the fifth and youngest son of Mufti Muhammad Shafi.

Taqi Usmani's father Muhammad Shafi was a product of the Deoband seminary.

Taqi Usmani taught there for several decades and held the post of chief mufti.

In 1948, when Taqi Usmani was four years old, his father immigrated the family from Deoband to Karachi, Pakistan.

Taqi Usmani was later enrolled in Darul Uloom Karachi after Mufti Shafi founded the school in 1950.

Taqi Usmani passed the Fazil-i Arabi with distinction in 1958, and received his Alimiyyah degree with distinction from Darul Uloom Karachi in 1959.

Taqi Usmani then obtained his Takhassus degree in fiqh and ifta from Darul Uloom Karachi in 1961, earning the title of "Mufti".

Taqi Usmani continued his education at the University of Karachi, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in economics and politics in 1964, then a Bachelor of Laws standing second in his entire batch in 1967.

Taqi Usmani received teaching licenses to teach hadith from Islamic scholars including Muhammad Shafi, Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi, Qari Muhammad Tayyib, Saleemullah Khan, Rashid Ahmed Ludhianvi, Sahban Mahmud, Zafar Ahmad Taqi Usmani, Muhammad Zakariya Kandhalvi, Hasan al-Mahshat Al-Makki Al-Maliki, 'Abdu-l-'Azeez Ibn Baz Al-Maliki, Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah, Abi Al-Faid Muhammad Yasin Al-Fadani Ash-Shafi'i, and others.

Taqi Usmani pioneered the concept of Islamic banking in Pakistan when he established the Meezan Bank.

Taqi Usmani has authored books in Arabic, Urdu, and English on Islamic topics in addition to articles on Islamic banking and finance published in journals and magazines.

Taqi Usmani currently teaches Sahih al-Bukhari, fiqh, and Islamic economics at Darul Uloom Karachi and is known for his Islahi Khutbat.

Taqi Usmani was a key member of a team of scholars which helped declare Ahmadis non-Muslims by Pakistan's National Assembly during the era of former Pakistani president, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the 1970s.

Taqi Usmani strongly opposes elements of explicit modernity, which he describes as engulfing.

Taqi Usmani has authored 143 books including Tauzeeh Al-Qur'an, An Introduction to Islamic Finance, Contemporary Fataawa, The Authority of Sunnah, Uloomu-l-Qur'an.

Taqi Usmani has written a supplement to Shabbir Ahmad Usmani's Fath al-Mulhim, entitled Takmila Fath al-Mulhim.