Mahmood Madani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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General Secretary of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind & Indian Politician
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Place of Birth: Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Mahmood Madani
- Moulana Mehmood Madani (born 3 March 1964) is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament of India's upper house the Rajya Sabha from 2006 to 2012.
- He is the general secretary of the Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind(Council of Indian Muslim Theologians).
- He is known for his outspoken opposition to misuse of the term Jihad by some extremists.
- Following consecutive bombings by extremists in the first decade of the 21st century, including the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts, he exhorted Deoband to issue a fatwa for steering true Islam from fanatical views.
- Mahmood Madani believes that terrorism should have not be shown any sympathy in Islam, and that Islam is a religion that is totally against terrorism. Maulana Mahmood Madani represents the third generation of a century old legacy of struggle for freedom, equality, social justice and human rights.
- His grand father, Maulana Syed Hussain Ahmad Madani, the great Scholar of Islamic theology, a teacher of Hadith (traditions of Prophet) in Prophet's Mosque at Medina, and in Darul Uloom Deoband, devoted his life to the struggle for freedom.
- His son, Maulana As'ad Madani followed in his father's footstep.
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