Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri

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Hamiduddin Farahi

Indian scholar and exegete (1863–1930) of Phariha in Azamgarh district, originator of the theory of nazm, or coherence, in the Qur'an and founder of what became known as the Farahi school. He learned Arabic from his cousin Shibli Nomani, taught at Karachi, the MAO College at Aligarh and Hyderabad, and from 1925 ran Madrasatul Islah at Sara-e-Mir, where Amin Ahsan Islahi trained under him; his commentary Nizam al-Qur'an was left unfinished at his death at Mathura.

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