Abdur Rab Jaunpuri

ʿAbd ar-Rabb Jaunpūrī (, ; 1875 – June 1935) was an Indian Muslim scholar, author and teacher. He was associated with Taiyuni reformist movement, founded by his grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri, and succeeded his uncle Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri as the leader of the movement in 1899.

Early life and education Abdul Rab Jaunpuri was born in 1875 to a scholarly Indian Muslim family in Mullatola, Jaunpur, located in the North-Western Provinces of the British Raj. His father, Hafiz Mahmud Jaunpuri, traced his ancestry to the Arab tribe of Quraysh, with Jaunpuri being a 37th-generation direct descendant of Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun caliph. Jaunpuri's grandfather Karamat Ali Jaunpuri was the founder of the Taiyuni reformist movement and propagated Islam in north India and Bengal. His great grandfather, Abu Ibrahim Shaykh Muhammad Imam Bakhsh ibn Shaykh Jarullah was a student of Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi. Many of his family members were also Islamic scholars, for example, his uncles Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri and Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri, and his cousin Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri.

Career Jaunpuri worked alongside his uncle in establishing numerous religious institutions in Daulatkhan in the Bengali island of Bhola. He established a langar khana which provided meals to needy people in the area. Jaunpuri toured many different parts of Bengal, giving public lectures, where he gained a large following. Notable locations include Sandwip and Barisal. He also wrote books in Urdu such as Nafeul Khalaiq. Many of the next generation of Islamic scholars were his murids such as Muhammad Ishaq and Abul Hasanat Muhammad Abdul Hayy.

Death Jaunpuri died in June 1935 in his home neighbourhood of Mullatola in Jaunpur, then located under the United Provinces of British India.

Spiritual genealogy His spiritual genealogy is as follows: Prophet Muhammad Abū Bakr Salmān al-Fārisī Al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr Jaʿfar bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī aṣ-Ṣādiq Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr al-Bisṭāmī Abu al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Kharaqānī Abū ʿAlī Faḍl bin Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Fārmadī Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Ghijdawānī Khwājah Muḥammad ʿĀrif al-Riwgarī Khwājah Maḥmūd al-Anjīr al-Faghnawī ʿAzīzān ʿAlī ar-Rāmitānī Sayyid Shams ad-Dīn Amīr Kulāl Muḥammad Bābā as-Samāsī Sayyid Bahā ad-Dīn Naqshband Sayyid Mīr ʿAlā ad-Dīn ʿAṭṭār Yaʿqūb Charkhī Khwājah ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār Khwājah Muḥammad Zāhid Wakhshī Khwājah Darwesh Muḥammad Khwājah Muḥammad Amkingī Khwājah Raḍī ad-Dīn Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh Aḥmad al-Fārūqī as-Sirhindī Sayyid Ādam bin Nūrī Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Akbarābādī Shāh ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm Dehlawī Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Dehlawī Sayyid Aḥmad Shahīd Karāmat ʿAlī bin Abī Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Imām Bakhsh bin Jār Allāh al-Jaunpūrī Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī ʿAbd ar-Rabb bin Maḥmud bin ʿAlī al-Jaunpūrī