– Pervez Bari
Bengaluru: Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani was re-elected president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) last evening during the two-day 29th session of the Board which began on Saturday in Darul Uloom Sabeel-ur-Rashad Arabic College, the largest religious seminary of Karnataka.
Along with Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani’s re-election, 40-member executive committee of AIMPLB were also elected. Now, the Maulana in consultation with the executive members will pick his team of office-bearers.
Maulana Rahmani is a close relative of Maulana Mujahid-ul-Islam Qasmi who was the third President of AIMPLB.
He is an author and jurist. He has authored books including The Islamic Jurisprudence: Introduction and Codification and Kitāb-ul-Fatāwa. While he is from the Deobandi School, he is respected by those from other schools as well, given his vast knowledge of various disciplines of Islamic education. He is also the general secretary of Islamic Fiqh Academy of India.
Born in November 1956, he received his primary education at home and studied at Madrasa Qasimul Uloom Hussainia for two years. He graduated from Jamia Rahmani, Munger and studied “dawra-e-hadith” again at Darul Uloom Deoband, and graduated therefrom. He later specialised in Islamic law and jurisprudence at Amarat-e-Sharia, Patna.
