Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi

Nizāmuddīn Asīr Adrawi (also known as Asīr Adrawi; 1926 – 20 May 2021) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar, biographer, historian and author in the Urdu language. He established the Madrassa Darus Salam in Adari and served as the Officer In Charge of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind in Lucknow from 1974 to 1978.

Asīr was an alumnus of the Jamia Miftahul Uloom, Madrassa Ehya-ul-Uloom and the Madrasa Shahi. He taught Islamic sciences at the Madrasa Jamia Islamia in Rewri Talab, Varanasi. His works include the Maʼās̲ir-i Shaik̲h̲ulislām, Tafāsīr mai Isrā'īli Riwāyāt and the biographies of Hussain Ahmad Madani, Imamuddin Punjabi, Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi, Mahmud Hasan Deobandi and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.

Biography Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi was born in 1926 in Adari, Mau, then in the United Provinces of British India. He was schooled at the Madrasa Faydh al-Ghuraba in Adari, and then at the Jamia Miftahul Uloom where he studied with Habib Al-Rahman Al-Azmi, Munshi Zahīr-ul-Haq Nishāt Simābi and Abdul Latīf Nomāni. He then went to the Madrassa Ehya-ul-Uloom in Mubarakpur, where he studied with scholars such as Shukrullah Mubarakpuri. He then moved to Darul Uloom Mau where he studied the Mishkat with Abdur Rasheed al-Hussayni and the Jalalayn with Qari Riyasat Ali.

Asīr participated in the Quit India Movement.

Asīr was the editor of the 3 monthly Tarjumān and wrote hundreds of articles for it. He was a columnist and a writer for the Weekly Al-Jamiat and Daily al-Jamiat of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He wrote short stories and legends including the Itnā, Do LāsheiN, Nashīb-o-Farāz and Aetirāf-e-Shikast. His legends such as the Hand bag and Aspatāl were published by the Nawai Pakistan of Lahore. He also contributed to the Kāmyāb, Delhi and the Risālā Dārul Uloom of the Darul Uloom Deoband. Arshad Madani expressed grief at his death and said that "Asīr Adrawi's death is an irreparable loss."

Literary works Asīr wrote biographies of the Islamic theologians Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, Imamuddin Punjabi, Rahmatullah Kairanawi, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi and Hussain Ahmad Madani. His book, the Taḥrīk-i āzādī aur Musalmān is part of the curricula of the Darul Uloom Deoband and several other affiliated madrasas. Afkār-e-Aalam Dabistān-i Devband kī ʻilmī k̲h̲idmāt Dārulʻulūm Devband, iḥyā-yi Islām kī ʻaẓīm taḥrīk Fun asma-ur-Rijal Maʼās̲ir-i Shaik̲h̲ulislām (, the biography of Hussain Ahmed Madani) Tafāsīr mai Isrā'īli Riwāyāt Tārīkh Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Tārīkh-e-Tabri ka tehqīqi jayzah Urdu sharah Dīvān-i Mutanabbī