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{{Short description|Indian Muslim scholar and historian (1944–2020)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|religion =
|nationality
|birth_date = 26 December 1944
|birth_place = [[Lakhimpur Kheri district|Lakhimpur Kheri]], [[United Provinces of British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2020|09|15|1944|12|26}}
|alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]], [[University of Lucknow]], [[Jamia Millia Islamia]], [[Aligarh Muslim University]]
|notable_works= ''Tārīkh Tezeeb-e-Islāmi'', ''The Prophet Muhammad: A Role Model for Muslim Minorities''
|awards = Fifth Shah Waliullah Award
}}
'''Yasin Mazhar
==
Yasin Mazhar Siddiqui was born on 26 December 1944 in the [[Lakhimpur Kheri district]] of [[United Provinces of British India]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nizāmi |first1=Zafar Ahmad |author-link1=Zafar Ahmad Nizami |title=Qalmi khākey |page=263 |edition=First, 2013}}</ref> He graduated in the traditional [[dars-e-nizami]] studies from [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]] in 1959, and mastered in literature at the [[University of Lucknow]] in 1960. He passed the intermediate exams from the [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] in 1962 and then acquired [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1965 and [[Bachelor of Education|B.Ed.]] in 1966 from the same university.<ref name="abdullah">{{cite journal |author1=Muhammad Abdullah |title=Professor Yāsin Mazhar Siddīqi ki Sīrat Nigāri |journal=Ziya-e-Tehqeeq |volume=3 |issue=6 |page=10 |url=https://iri.aiou.edu.pk/indexing/?p=23536 |access-date=15 September 2020 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916180656/https://iri.aiou.edu.pk/indexing/?p=23536 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1968, Siddīqi received his [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] degree in History, [[Master of Philosophy|M.Phil]] in 1969, and [[Doctorate of Philosophy|PhD]] in 1975 from the [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. <ref name="abdullah"/> His teachers included [[Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi]], [[K. A. Nizami]], Abd al-Hafīz Balyāwi and [[Rabey Hasani Nadwi]].<ref name="abdullah"/>
* {{cite book |last1=Nizāmi |first1=Zafar Ahmad |authorlink1=Zafar Ahmad Nizami |title=Qalmi khākey |publisher=Institute of Objective Studies |location=[[New Delhi]] |isbn=978-81-89964-96-2 |pages=263-264 |edition=First, 2013 |language=Urdu |chapter=Professor Yāsin Mazhar Siddīqi}}▼
Siddiqui was appointed a research assistant in the history department of [[Aligarh Muslim University]] (AMU) in 1970. He became a lecturer of History in 1977 and [[Saiyid Hamid]] transferred him to the Institute of Islamic Studies, (AMU) in 1983.<ref name="abdullah"/> He became a Professor of Islamic Studies in 1991 and served as the director of Institute of Islamic Studies (AMU) from 1997 to 2000.<ref name="abdullah"/> In 2001, he was appointed as the director of Shah Waliullah Research Cell of the Institute of Islamic Studies (AMU). He retired from the Institute of Islamic Studies on 31 December 2006 but retained the position of director of the Shah Waliullah Research Cell for ten years.<ref name="abdullah"/> Between 2000 and 2010, he arranged about ten national and international seminars about the different aspects of [[Shah Waliullah Dehlawi]]'s life and wrote eighteen books.<ref name="abdullah"/>
Siddiqui was conferred with the fifth Shah Waliullah Award by Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi on 24 September 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shah Waliullah Award |url=http://www.iosworld.org/content.aspx?id=318 |website=iosworld.org |publisher=Institute of Objective Studies |access-date=15 September 2020}}</ref> He died on 15 September 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=معروف مصنف و محقق پروفیسر یسین مظہر صدیقی کا انتقال، علمی حلقہ سوگوار |trans-title=Renowned author and researcher Professor Yāsin Mazhar Siddīqi passes away|url=https://urdu.millattimes.com/archives/60831 |access-date=15 September 2020 |work=Millat Times |date=15 September 2020 |language=ur}}</ref>
==Literary works==
Siddiqui authored books including:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nizāmi |first1=Zafar Ahmad |author-link1=Zafar Ahmad Nizami |title=Qalmi khākey |page=263-264 |edition=First, 2013}}</ref>
* ''Tārīkh Tehzeeb-e-Islāmi''
* ''Ghazwāt ki Iqtesādi Ehmiyat''
* ''Tawhīd-e-Ilāhi awr mufassirīn-e-girāmi''
* ''Wahi-e-Hadīth''
* ''Ehd-e-Nabwi mai Tanzīm-e-Riyāsat-o-Hukūmat''<ref>{{cite news |author1=Hāfiz Muhammad Sāni |title=Ehd-e-Nabwi mai Tanzīm-e-Riyāsat-o-Hukūmat |url=https://jang.com.pk/news/697863-state-of-madina |access-date=15 September 2020 |work=[[Daily Jang]] |date=10 November 2019 |language=ur |quote=''Ehd-e-Nabwi mai Tanzīm-e-Riyāsat-o-Hukūmat'' is a magnum opus work of Professor Siddīqi on the administration of Medina State: Hāfiz Muhammad Sāni}}</ref>
*''The Prophet Muhammad: A Role Model for Muslim Minorities''<ref name="review">{{cite journal |last1=Hofmann |first1=Murad Wilfried |author-link1=Murad Wilfried Hofmann |title=The Prophet Muhammad: A Role Model for Muslim Minorities |journal=Journal of Islamic Studies |date=May 2007 |volume=18|issue=2 |page=241-243 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|doi=10.1093/jis/etm003 |jstor=26199808}}</ref>
* ''Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts at the Aligarh Muslim University'', published by [[Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation]] in [[London]] in 2002.<ref name="review"/>
==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
▲* {{cite book |last1=Nizāmi |first1=Zafar Ahmad |
*{{cite journal |author1=Muhammad Abdullah |title=Professor Yāsin Mazhar Siddīqi ki Sīrat Nigāri |journal=Ziya-e-Tehqeeq |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=9–17 |url=https://iri.aiou.edu.pk/indexing/?p=23536 |access-date=15 September 2020 |publisher=Department of Islamic Studies & Arabic |location=[[Government College University Faisalabad]] |language=ur |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916180656/https://iri.aiou.edu.pk/indexing/?p=23536 |url-status=dead }}
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[[Category:1944 births]]
[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:Jamia Millia Islamia alumni]]
[[Category:Aligarh Muslim University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Lucknow alumni]]
[[Category:Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama alumni]]
[[Category:People from Lakhimpur Kheri]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Aligarh Muslim University]]
[[Category:Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam]]
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