This bibliography of Ashraf Ali Thanwi is a selected list of generally available scholarly resources related to Ashraf Ali Thanwi , a leading Islamic scholar , philosopher, writer, preacher, reformer , the author of about one thousands books.[1] He didn't write an autobiography during his lifetime. However, Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri , an authorized disciple of Thanwi, compiled a book from 1935 to 1943, into four volumes entitled Ashraf al-Sawaneh , which is the first and most important book and prime source on the biography of Thanwi.[2] Another Maqalat Hakeemul Ummat was compiled in 34 volumes under the supervision of Taqi Usmani , collected from about 350 publications of Thanwi.[3] This list will include his biographies, theses written on him and articles published about him in various journals, newspapers , encyclopedias , seminars , websites etc. in APA style .
Al-Azhari, Alauddin (1982). Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam (in Bengali) (5th ed.). Sherbangla Nagar, Dhaka: Islamic Foundation Bangladesh . pp. 84–85. ISBN 984-06-0252-7 .
Ansari, A. S. Bazmee (1995). "ESREF ALI" . TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 11 (Elbi̇stan – Eymi̇r) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation , Centre for Islamic Studies. pp. 472–473. ISBN 978-975-389-438-8 .
Belhaj, Abdessamad (2014), "Thānvī, Ashraf ʿAlī" , The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam , Oxford University Press , ISBN 978-0-19-981257-8
Esposito, John L. (2003), "Thanawi, Ashraf Ali" , The Oxford Dictionary of Islam , Oxford University Press , ISBN 978-0-19-512558-0
Ingram, Brannon (2018), Kassam, Zayn R.; Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg; Bagli, Jehan (eds.), "Ashraf 'Alī Thānawī" , Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism , Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 81–84, doi :10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_787 , ISBN 978-94-024-1267-3
Naeem, Fuad (2009), "Thānvī, Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī" , The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World , Oxford University Press , ISBN 978-0-19-530513-5
Abdullah, Mohammad (2002). Life and works of Maulana Mujaddid Ashraf Ali Thanwi Rah (PDF) (2nd ed.). Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 81-7435-111-6 . OCLC 968650263 .
Abdush Shakūr Tirmizī, Sayyid (2001). Ashrafulmaʻārif: Shāh Muḥammad Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī kī tafsīr va ḥ̣adīs (in Urdu). Lāhaur : Sargodhā: Kutub Ḵẖānah Jamīlī ; Jāmiʻah Ḥaqqāniyyah.
Ahmad, Furqan (2018). Towards the Renaissance: Shibli and Maulana Thanvi on Sharia . Indian Law Institute. ISBN 978-81-927926-3-7 .
ʻĀrifī, Muḥammad ʻAbdulḥaʼī; ʻAlvī, Masʻūd Aḥsan (1976). Maʾās̲ir-i Ḥakīmulummat: irshādāt va ifādāt (in Urdu). Karācī: Ec.Em. Saʻīd Kampanī.
Ashraf, Rana Muhammad (2022). Hazrat Hakeem Ul Ummat Aur Un K Khulfa Ki Siyasi Khidmaat Ka Jaiza (PDF) (in Urdu). India: Idarah Talifat-e Ashrafiya.
Buk̲h̲ārī, Muḥammad Akbar Shāh (1997). Karwan-e Thanwi : 192 disciples of Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Tahanawi (in Urdu). Pakistan: Idaratul Ma'arif.
Daryabadi, Abdul Majid (1967). Ḥakīmul Ummat (PDF) (in Urdu).
Hai, Mohammad Abdul; Memon, Muḥammad ʻAbdullāh. (1987). Fihrist-i taʾlīfāt-i Ḥakīmulummat (in Urdu). Karācī : Lāhaur: Maktabah-yi Dārulʻulūm ; Milne ke pate, Idārahyi Islāmiyāt.
Ḥasan, Sayyid Maḥmūd. (1976). Ḥaz̤rat Ḥakīmulummat Thānvī: akābir aur muʻāṣirīn kī naẓar me . Silsilah-yi mat̤būʻāt-i Maktabah-yi Ashrafiyah ;5 (in Urdu). Karācī: Kutub Ḵẖānah-yi Maẓharī.
Īlahābādī, Muḥammad ʻĪsʹa (2003). Malfūẓāt-i kamālāt-i Ashrafiyah (in Urdu). Multān: Idārah-yi Tālīfāt-i Ashrafiyah : Milne ke pate, Dārulishāʻat.
Isqeel, Abdullateef Ayodele; Daoud, Jamal Ibrahim (2011), Contributions of Ashraf Ali Thanwi to mental disease treatment , Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, pp. 49–53, ISBN 978-967-418-155-0 , archived from the original on 17 March 2014, retrieved 20 October 2022
K̲h̲ān, Abdurraḥmān (1977–1979). Sīrat-i Ashraf (in Urdu). Lāhaur: Shaiḵẖ Akaiḍaimī.
Khawaja, Ahmad Ali (1999). Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi : his views on religious and moral philosophy, and tasawwuf (1st ed.). New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan. ISBN 81-7151-269-0 . OCLC 863247988 .
Mumtazi, Muhammad Sikander; Abdul Huq, Muhammad (1965). Hāẏāte Āśarāpha (in Urdu).
Nadwī, Muḥammad Raḥmat Allāh Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Nāẓim (2006). Ashraf ʻAlī al-Tahānawī: ḥakīm al-ummah wa-shaykh mashāyikh al-ʻaṣr fī al-Hind . 880-04Aʻlām al-Muslimīn ;91 (in Arabic). Dimashq : Bayrūt: Dār al-Qalam ; al-Dār al-Shāmīyah.
Nāṣir Tāvlavī, Abūlʻarfāt Muḥammad (2001). Ḥaz̤rat-i Thānvī ke uṣūl va z̤vābit (in Urdu). Amārā, Z̤ilaʻ Bāg̲ẖpat: Maktabah-yi Ḥakīmulummat.
Parvez, Mohammed (2017). Social and religious reforms of Maulānā Ashraf 'Alī Thānvī . New Delhi. ISBN 978-81-7435-750-2 . OCLC 1038709379 . ((cite book ))
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Pernau, Margrit (2019). Ashraf Ali Thanavi: Sermons and Pious Feelings . Oxford University Press. pp. 146–170. doi :10.1093/oso/9780199497775.003.0007 . ISBN 978-0-19-949777-5 .
Saʻīd, Aḥmad (1972). Maulānā Ashrafʻ ʻAlī Sāhib Thānvī aur taḥrīk-i āzādī (in Urdu). Rāvalpinḍī: Ḵh̲ālid Nadīm Pablīkeshanz.
Saʻīd, Aḥmad (1975). Bazm-i Ashraf ke cirāg̲h (in Urdu). Lāhaur: Maktabah-yi Aḥyāʻ-ul-ʻulūm alsharqīyah.
Siddiqui, Muhammad Ismail. Talifat-e Ashrafiyyah (PDF) . India.
Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (2008). Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi : Islam in modern South Asia . Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 978-1-85168-415-1 . OCLC 153580949 .
Ahmad, Mian Bashir (1991). An enquiry as to the relevance of the philosophy of education of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi to the present day needs of Education in Pakistan (PhD). Pakistan: University of Peshawar .
Ali, Sayed Abrar (1999). Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi's reformation method (PhD) (in Urdu). Pakistan: University of Sindh .
Al-Rida, Muhammad Iqlim (2011). Ashraf Ali al-Tahanawi and his effort in linking between hadith and sufism through his book Haqiqat al-tariqat min al-sunnah al-aniqah (MA thesis) (in Arabic). Malaysia: University of Malaya .
Bano, Shazia (2022). Religious Thought of the Subcontinent in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative and Contemporary Study of the Sufi and Social Trends of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi and Shah Abdul Qadir Rai Puri (PhD) (in Urdu). Pakistan: The Women University Multan .
Hameed, Abdul (2019). Fatwas approach in the Indian subcontinent through books: "Imdad Fatwas" by Mufti Ashraf Ali Al-Thanawy (PhD) (in Arabic). Pakistan: International Islamic University, Islamabad .
Iqbal, Azhar (2018). Tasawuf o Salook Ki Tajdeed o Islah Main Maulana Ashraf Ali Tahnvi Ki Khidmaat: Tehqeeqi Mutalia (PhD) (in Urdu). Pakistan: University of the Punjab .
Islam, Muhammad (2020). The Tradition in the Age of Modernity (A Critical Study of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanavi's Approach to Religion and Modernism) (PhD). Pakistan: University of the Punjab .
Khamidov, Odil (2019). Eşref Ali Tehânevî'nin Hayatı, Hadis İlmindeki Eserleri ve Görüşleri (MA) (in Turkish). Turkey: Fatih University .
Khan, Fareeha (2008). Traditionalist Approaches to Shari'ah Reform: Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Fatwa on Women's Right to Divorce (PhD thesis). United States: University of Michigan . hdl :2027.42/60731 . ISBN 978-1243544063 .
Mian, Ali Altaf (2015). Surviving Modernity: Ashraf Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India (PhD). Durham, North Carolina , United States: Duke University . hdl :10161/9815 .
Mitu, Muhammad Younus (1999). Allama Iqbal Aur Moulana Muhmmad Ashraf Thanvi K Afkar Ka Taqabli Mutala (PDF) (PhD). Pakistan: Allama Iqbal Open University .
Nawi, Zaharudin (2007). Sheikh Ashraf Ali Thanawi: An Analytical Study Of His "Haqiqah Al-tariqah Min Al- Sunnah Al-aniqah" (PhD) (in Arabic). Kuala Lumpur: Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia . Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022 .
Naz, Kehkashan (2022). Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvis contribution the uplift of Muslim women (PhD) (in Urdu). India: Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University . hdl :10603/508409 .
Nisar, Sumeera (2021). The Sufi Thought Of Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (PhD thesis). India: Shah-i-Hamdan Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Kashmir . hdl :10603/476372 .
Parvez, Mohammed (2008). A study of the socio_religious reforms of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (PhD) (in Urdu). India: Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University . hdl :10603/52380 .
Rashid, Shazia (2016). Aurat Aur Huquq e Niswan Muntakhab Ulama e Hind o Pak Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi Aur Maulana Abul Ala Maududi ki Tehreeron ke Aaine Mein (PhD) (in Urdu). India: Department of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard University. hdl :10603/447347 .
Rasul, Saifur Rehman (1992). Educational services of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi Rh (PhD) (in Urdu). Pakistan: Department of Islamic culture, University of Sindh .
Ullah, Wasi (2019). An Analytical Study Of Hadiths mentioned in Ashraf Ali Thanawi's al-Tashrruf bi M'arifah Ahādīth al-Tasawuf, which are not mentioned in the Sihah Sitta (MA) (in Arabic). Kuala Lumpur: Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia . Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022 .
Zia, Rehana (1982). A Critical Study Of Bayanul Quran The Commentary Of The Quran By Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi With Special Reference To The Exegetical Literature In Urdu (PhD) (in Urdu). India: Department of Sunni Theology, Aligarh Muslim University . hdl :10603/57075 .
Al-Ghazali, Muhammad (2001). "Exegetical Urdu Translation of Imam Ashraf Ali Thanvi and some of its characteristics". Al-Dirasat Al-Islamiyyah . 36 (3). ISSN 0002-399X .
Anwar, Sajid (2019). "Tehreek Qiyam Pakistan: Intellectual Similarity of Abul Ala Maududi and Ashraf Ali Thanwi" . Al-Idah (in Urdu). 37 (2): 109–135. doi :10.37556/al-idah.037.02.0567 . ISSN 2664-3375 . S2CID 213303113 .
Ar-Rahman, Fahmid (2020). "Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Spiritual-Political Thought" . Punorpath (in Bengali): 24–45. Archived from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022 .
Bano, Shazia; Pracha, Dr Kalsoom (2019). "Social Reformation: A Study of Mawlānā Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī's Efforts and Approach" . Al-Qamar (in Urdu). 2 (1): 245–256. ISSN 2664-4398 .
Falak, Dr Nabeela (2021). "Modern family issues and utilisation of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi's Thought" . Al-Qawārīr (in Urdu). 2 (4): 1–10. ISSN 2709-457X .
Farosh, Hassan; Khan, Abzahir; Adil, Muhammad (2022). "An Introductory Study of Imdād ul-Fatawā of Hazrat Mulānā Ashraf 'Alī Thānvī: An Analyses" . Al-Idah . 40 (– 2): 261–276. doi :10.37556/al-idah.040.02.0810 . ISSN 2664-3375 .
Faruque, Muhammad U. (2021). "Eternity Made Temporal: Ashraf ʿAlī Thānavī, a Twentieth-Century Indian Thinker and the Revival of Classical Sufi Thought" . Journal of Sufi Studies . 9 (2): 215–246. doi :10.1163/22105956-bja10009 . ISSN 2210-5948 . S2CID 242261580 .
Hermansen, Marcia (2007). "Rewriting Sufi Identity in the 20th Century: The Biographical Approaches of Maulānā Ashraf 'Alī T̲h̲ānvī and Khwājah Ḥasan Niẓāmī" . Islamic Studies . 46 (1): 15–39. ISSN 0578-8072 . JSTOR 20839053 .
Homma, Ryusei (2020). "A Survey of Previous Studies on Ashraf 'Alī Thānavī and Subjects for Future Research" . Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies (in Japanese). 13 : 182–210. doi :10.14989/250334 . ISSN 1881-8323 .
Homma, Ryusei (2021). "Ashraf 'Alī Thānavī's Conception of Sufism: Establishing the Stages of Knowledge about Ethics, Practices, and Metaphysics" . Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies (in Japanese). 14 : 283–306. doi :10.14989/262505 . ISSN 1881-8323 .
Kamran, Malak Shahid (2021). "A scholarly review of the Methodology of Ashraf Ali Thanvi in "Tafseer Bayan-ul-Quran" " . VFAST Transactions on Islamic Research (in Urdu). 9 (4): 152–163. ISSN 2309-6519 .
Khatoon, Saeeda (1981). "The Traditional Rationalism Of Ashraf Ali Thanvi" . Iqbal Review . 32 (3). Iqbal Academy Pakistan . ISSN 0021-0773 .
Khan, Shafqat ullah; Khoso, Aijaz Ali; Badshah, Syed Naeem (2020). "Mysticism And Ashraf Ali Thanawi, An Analytical Approach" . The International Research Journal of Usooluddin . 4 (1): 19–24. ISSN 2664-4940 .
Mahdavi Rad, Mohammad Ali; Roshan Zamir, Mohammad Ibrahim; Heydari, Halima Khatoon (2021). "Political and Social Thoughts of Ashraf Ali Tahanavi" . 12- Studies Religion Muslems (in Persian). 7 (13): 255–278. ISSN 2476-714X .
Mian, Ali Altaf; Potter, Nancy Nyquist (2009). "Invoking Islamic Rights In British India: Mawlana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Ḥuqūq al-Islam" . The Muslim World . 99 (2): 312–334. doi :10.1111/j.1478-1913.2009.01271.x .
Naeem, Fuad S. (2009). "Sufism and Revivalism in South Asia: Mawlānā Ashraf 'Alī Thānvī of Deoband and Mawlānā Aḥmad Razā Khān of Bareilly and their paradigms of Islamic revivalism" . The Muslim World . 99 (3): 435–451. doi :10.1111/j.1478-1913.2009.01279.x .
Nasiri, Aliakbar; Dehani, Fatemeh (2018). "The Recourse to the look Ashraf Ali Tahanavi and Khalil Ahmd Saharnpoory" . Journal of Subcontinent Researches . 10 (35): 215–228. doi :10.22111/jsr.2018.4624 . ISSN 2008-5710 .
Pernau, Margrit; Stille, Max (2021). "Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Sermons on the Love of the Prophet" . Journal of Religious History . 45 (1): 25–49. doi :10.1111/1467-9809.12727 . hdl :21.11116/0000-0006-6BE7-E . ISSN 0022-4227 . S2CID 226698611 .
Qasmi, Abdul Latif (2011). "Apparent reasons for the numerous works of Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi" . Mahnama Darul Uloom (in Urdu). 95 (10). India: Darul Uloom Deoband .
Rashid, Burhan (2022). "Principles And Methods For The Management And Regulation Of Finances In Islam: An Approach To Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanavi" . International Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance Research . 9 (1): 1–13. doi :10.46281/ijibfr.v9i1.1684 . ISSN 2576-4144 . S2CID 248093491 .
Robb, Megan Eaton (2017), Qasmi, Ali Usman; Robb, Megan Eaton (eds.), "Advising the Army of Allah: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Critique of the Muslim League" , Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , pp. 142–168, doi :10.1017/9781316711224.006 , ISBN 978-1-107-16663-9
Sheraz, Khurram (2020). "Analytical study of the views of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi and Maulana Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi on"Equator Al-Arsh" " . Al-Bahis Journal of Islamic Sciences Research (in Urdu). 1 (2): 63–74. ISSN 2790-0460 .
Tay, Ömer (2021). "Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Views on Lataif in the Context of his Treatise "Risâletü'l-katâif mine'l-latâif" " . Mesned İlahiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi (in Turkish). 12 (2): 357–382. doi :10.51605/mesned.898526 . ISSN 2667-7075 . S2CID 245598440 .
Wani, Bilal Ahmad (2016). "Tafsir Bayan al-Quran of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi: An Estimate" . Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies . 4 (2): 198. ISSN 2348-7186 . Archived from the original on 20 July 2020.
Yüksel, Yakup; Tekin, Muhammet Ali (2017). "Sufism In The Thought Of Ashref Ali Thanwi" . Namık Kemal Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (NKUIFD) (in Turkish). 3 (2): 333–364. ISSN 2147-9828 .
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