Abdur Rahman Kashgari

Abdur Rahman Kashgari
Nadwi
ئابدۇرراھمان كاشغەرىي
Mawlana Abdur Rahman Kashgari
Personal life
Born15 September 1912
DiedApril 1971(1971-04-00) (aged 58)
Main interest(s)Linguistics
Alma materNadwatul Ulama, Lucknow
University of Lucknow
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
Muslim leader
TeacherAbdul Hai Hasani
Khatib of Baitul Mukarram
In office
1963  April 1971
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byAmimul Ehsan Barkati
Head Mawlana of Dhaka Alia Madrasa
In office
1969  April 1971
Preceded byAmimul Ehsan Barkati
Succeeded byAhmad Hossain Chowdhury
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān
عبد الرحمن
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī
بن عبد الهادي
Teknonymic (Kunya)Abū az-Zibriqān
أبو الزبرقان
Epithet (Laqab)al-Lughawī
اللغوي
Toponymic (Nisba)Dāmullā
داملا
al-Kāshgharī
الكاشغري
an-Nadwī
الندوي

Abū az-Zibriqān ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Dāmullā al-Kāshgharī an-Nadwī (Arabic: أبو الزبرقان عبد الرحمن بن عبد الهادي داملا الكاشغري الندوي; 15 September 1912 – 3 April 1971), or simply Abdur Rahman Kashgari (Uyghur: ئابدۇرراھمان كاشغەرىي, Bengali: আব্দুর রহমান কাশগরী), was one of the leading scholars of the Arabic language and literature in the Indian subcontinent. Of Uyghur background, Kashgari migrated from East Turkestan to India at an early age, completing his studies in Lucknow where he became an accomplished Islamic scholar, linguist, poet and author. He then migrated to Bengal (present-day Bangladesh), where he eventually became the principal of Dhaka Alia Madrasa. Kashgari was also the first khatib of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, holding this role until his death.