Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri

Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri

Maulana Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri (1916–1996) at Mubarakpur, Azamgarh U.P. India, he has written many articles and books on the history of the early Muslims in India and the Arab world he was presented the highest literary award for the Arabic language in India and has been awarded many awards from the Arab world as well his works are both in Arabic and Urdu language. He was also an active member of the congress before and after the independence on India. He has also written book on the well known personalities of Mubarakpur known as Uluma-e-Tazkera Mubarakpur.

He also served as the editor of Al-Balagh published from Bombay, a monthly journal in the following years 1961–62, 1966–67, 1973–76.He worked as a Islamic teacher in Anjuman Islam High School, Fort, Mumbai

• Hindustan men °Arabon ki hukumaten Publisher: Maktabah-yi °Arifin .published in 1967 340 pages

social condition and historical happenings of West and Southern parts of India was a travelogue by Arab traders of pre-Islamic era. The late Qazi Athar Mubarkpuri, translating the book on the evidence of certain Arabic sources, the historian Ahtar Mubarkpuri, concludes that some Hindu rulers knew Arabic or at least some verses which they could quote on appropriate occasions (mubarkpuri 1989, 315-316) Hindustan main arbon ki hukumatey, lahore 1989).

Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri also wrote a column under the heading "Jawahar-ul-Qur'an" in the Inquilab Daily, a newspaper published from Bombay, for around 40 years. During the British Raj he worked in Lahore but after Independence moved to Bombay.

His son Sheikh Khalid Hafiz (Khalid Kamal Abdul Hafiz; 1938–1999) served as the senior religious advisor to the New Zealand Muslim minority over 1982 to 1999, as Imam of Wellington.