Anwaar al-Quran Anwaar al-Quran is a rare and historically significant Urdu work compiled around 1920 by Maulvi Anees Ahmad, a close comp...
Anwaar al-Quran
Anwaar al-Quran is a rare and historically significant Urdu work compiled around 1920 by Maulvi Anees Ahmad, a close companion and devoted associate of Shaykh al-Hind Maulana Mahmood Hasan. The book was likely published before the partition of India but remained unavailable for nearly half a century, surviving only in a worn and incomplete copy preserved by the author’s son, Shahid Ahmad.
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Approximately fifteen years prior to its re-publication, Shahid Ahmad handed over the preserved manuscript as a valuable intellectual legacy to Dr. Israr Ahmad, founder of the Central Anjuman. It has now been republished for public benefit under the supervision of Hafiz Aakif Saeed, making this important work accessible once again.
Maulvi Anees Ahmad was a graduate of Aligarh and a man of both classical and modern learning. Despite being offered the prestigious post of Deputy Collector by the British government, he rejected it to pursue Qur’anic studies. He joined the institution established by Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi in Delhi and later went to Deoband, where he studied under Shaykh al-Hind Maulana Mahmood Hasan. He became actively involved in the historic Silk Letter Movement (Tehreek-e-Reshmi Rumal) against British colonial rule.
For his role in anti-colonial efforts, he was arrested by the British authorities and imprisoned in Burma (Rangoon). Details of his life and struggle are highlighted in introductory essays titled “Taqdeem” by Dr. Israr Ahmad and “Taaruf” compiled by his son Shahid Ahmad. These writings have been included as integral sections of the book.
Anwaar al-Quran therefore stands not only as a religious work but also as a reflection of the intellectual and revolutionary spirit of early twentieth-century Islamic scholarship in the Indian subcontinent.
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