Mohd. Ahmad Khan v. Shah Bano Begum [1985 (1) SCALE 767 = 1985 (3) SCR 844 = 1985 (2) SCC 556 = AIR 1985 SC 945], commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a controversial maintenance lawsuit in India, in which the Supreme Court delivered a judgment favouring maintenance given to an aggrieved divorced Muslim woman. Then the Congress government enacted a law with its most controversial aspect being the right to maintenance for the period of iddat after the divorce, and shifting the onus of maintaining her to her relatives or the Waqf Board. It was seen as discriminatory as it denied right to basic maintenance available to Muslim women under secular law.
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, known reverentially as Ala Hazrat, was an Indian Islamic scholar, theologian, jurist, preacher, poet from Bareilly, British India, considered as the founder of the Barelvi movement and the Razvi branch of the Qadri Sufi order.
Nikah halala, also known as tahleel marriage, is a practice in which a woman, after being divorced by triple talaq, marries another man, consummates the marriage, and gets divorced again in order to be able to remarry her former husband. Nikah means marriage and halala means to make something halal, or permissible. This form of marriage is haram (forbidden) according to the hadith of Islamic prophet Muhammad. Nikah halala is practiced by a small minority of Muslims, mainly in countries that recognise the triple talaq.
Divorce according to Islamic law can occur in a variety of forms, some initiated by a husband and some by a wife. The main categories of Islamic customary law are talaq, khulʿ and faskh. Historically, the rules of divorce were governed by sharia, as interpreted by traditional Islamic jurisprudence, though they differed depending on the legal school, and historical practices sometimes diverged from legal theory.
Raza Academy is a Sunni Muslim fundamentalist Islamist group based in Maharashtra, India. It was formed in 1978 by Alhaj Mohammed Saeed Noori as a small publishing house, and later became known for protests for the rights of Muslims. The group publishes books of Ahle Sunnah scholars in various languages, the Kanzul Iman translation of the Quran, and Fatawa-e-Razvia. The group also conducts charity and advocacy work for the Muslim community.
Madrasa Manzar-e-Islam, also known as Jamia Razvia Manzar-e-Islam, is an Islamic seminary in India. It was founded in 1904 in Bareilly, India by Imam of Ahlus Sunnah Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. It celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 2004 this occasion was marked by a series of publications in monthly magazine Ala Hazrat whose editor in chief is Subhan Raza Khan Subhani Mian.
Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan or BMMA is an autonomous, secular, rights-based mass organization led by Zakia Soman which fights for the citizenship rights of the Muslim women in India. The BMMA was formed in January 2011. The organisation is based in Mumbai.
Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892–1981) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author, and leader of the Sunni Barelvi movement following the death of its founder, his father Ahmed Raza Khan. He was known as Mufti-Azam-i-Hind to his followers. He is widely known as Mufti-e-Azam-e-Hind. On his death date his follower celebrate Urs name as Urs-e-Noori on every 14th Muharram of Islamic Year.
Tauqeer Raza Khan is an Indian politician and Islamic cleric from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He is a religious leader of the Bareilvi sect of Sunni Muslims and the founder of the political party Ittehad-e-Millat Council. He is a great grandson of Ahmed Raza Khan, who was the founder of the Barelvi movement. He also heads the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (Jadeed) after he cut ties with the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, claiming discrimination by the Deobandi Muslims.
Muhammad Akhtar Raza Khan Azhari, also known as Tajush Shari'ah or Azhari Miya, was an Indian Barelvi Muslim scholar, cleric and mufti. He was the great grandson of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi who was considered to be a Mujaddid by his followers and was the founder of the Barelvi movement. He was recognised by Barelvi Muslims as the Grand Mufti of India. He was ranked 22nd on the list of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world, compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. He had tens of millions of followers in India.
Subhan Raza Khan, also known as Subhani Mian, is former head of a Sufi centre popularly known as Dargah-e-Ala Hazrat, shrine of his great-great grandfather Ahmed Raza Khan, in Bareilly, India. He is chairperson of the Manzar-e-Islam seminary. He also edits the Urdu-language Ala Hazrat monthly magazine which is published in Dargah. His son Ahsan Raza Khan Quadri has been appointed present head of the Dargah Ala Hazrat.
Jamiatur Raza is an Islamic seminary situated in Bareilly, India. It was established by Akhtar Raza Khan in 2000.
Triple talaq and talaq-e-mughallazah are now-banned means of Islamic divorce previously available to Muslims in India, especially adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. A Muslim man could legally divorce his wife by proclaiming three times consecutively the word talaq.
All the Muslims in India are governed by the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937. This law deals with marriage, succession, inheritance and charities among Muslims. The Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939 deals with the circumstances in which Muslim women can obtain divorce and rights of Muslim women who have been divorced by their husbands and to provide for related matters. These laws are not applicable in the state of Goa, where Goa civil code is applicable for all persons irrespective of religion. These laws are not applicable to Indians, including Muslims, who married under the Special Marriage Act, 1954.
The Muslim Women Act, 2019 is an Act of the Parliament of India criminalising triple talaq. In August 2017, the Supreme Court of India declared triple talaq, which enables Muslim men to instantly divorce their wives, to be unconstitutional. The minority opinion suggested the Parliament to consider appropriate legislation governing triple talaq in the Muslim community.
Muhammad Asjad Raza Khan Qadri is an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar and Barelvi leader and a descendant of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi and son and successor of Akhtar Raza Khan. Qazi-ul-Quzzat fil Hind or Qazi-e-Hindustan and Islamic Chief Justice of India. He is the Principal of Jamiatur Raza.
The list of Fatwas issued by the Ulemas of Ahl Us Sunnah Wal Jamaah.
The Markazi Darul Ifta was founded by Tajush Shariah Akhtar Raza Khan Qadri during his life in 1990. After the formation of Jamiatur Raza, the Darul Ifta came under the Educational institution and became its indifferent part. It is an online Fatwa Department of Barelvi Muslims and officially of Jamiatur Raza since 2003. The Markazi Darul Ifta issues the notification of Moon sightings on every eve.
The views of the Scholars of Barelvi movement are taken by the Fatwas given on Terrorism in Islam. The Fatwas includes that are given by the founder of Barelvi Movement Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Darul Iftas of the movement and the Scholars related to the movement. The fatwas were against the ISIS, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hafiz Saeed and other different Terror groups that are connected to Islam. More than 70000 Scholars related to the movement had signed the Fatwa against ISIS, Taliban and Al Qaeda.
