1. Muhammad Usman Mansoorpuri was an Indian Muslim scholar who served as the first National President of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind's Mahmood faction.
12 Facts About Usman Mansoorpuri
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Usman Mansoorpuri taught hadith at the Darul Uloom Deoband and served the seminary as a working rector.
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Usman Mansoorpuri was born on 12 August 1944 in Mansurpur, Muzaffarnagar.
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Usman Mansoorpuri graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband in the traditional dars-e-nizami in 1965.
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Usman Mansoorpuri specialized in Qirat, Tajweed and Arabic literature in 1966 from the Deoband seminary.
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Usman Mansoorpuri taught hadith including the books Muwatta Imam Malik and Mishkat al-Masabih.
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Usman Mansoorpuri served as the vice-rector of Darul Uloom Deoband for eleven years from 1997 to 2008.
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In November 2016, protesting against the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Reuven Rivlin to India, Usman Mansoorpuri addressed a gathering in New Delhi, saying that "It has been against our culture and tradition to welcome an oppressor".
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Usman Mansoorpuri supported the National Register of Citizens as he believed that "who is Indian and who is not should be known".
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In December 2017, Usman Mansoorpuri led an anti-Israel protest in Varanasi; demanding that the occupation of Jerusalem and killings of innocents be ended.
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Farooq Abdullah condoled his death saying that Usman Mansoorpuri was a promoter of national unity and communal harmony and his death is a loss to both India and the Muslim community.
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Abdullah remarked that, "Usman Mansoorpuri shall be remembered for his scholarly disposition, and ease of elucidation in familiarizing his students with teachings of the Quran and Sunnah".