Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi
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Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi

Sayed Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi (born 25 December 1951) is an Indian Islamic scholar, academician, and litterateur of Arabic and Urdu. He has also served in several positions in the Arabic Department of Aligarh Muslim University for 45 years.

Sayed Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi was born on 25 December 1951, in Jairampur, Cuttack district, Orissa (now Odisha), to Sayed Muhammad Saleh.

He received his primary education at home, then up to Arabic IV in Madrasa Arabia Islamia (now Jamia Islamia Markazul Uloom, Sungra). His teachers at Sungra included Muhammad Ismail Katki, Abdul Quddus Katki, Abdul Ghaffar (of Dharamshala, Jajpur), Muhammad Irfan Dhamnagari, Muhammad Ishaq Katki, Muhammad Ismail Patnavi, and Muhammad Yahya Mungeri.

He began his secondary and further education at Darul Uloom Deoband in 1962 and graduated in 1965.

His teachers at Deoband included Basheer Ahmad Khan Bulandshahri, Ibrahim Balyawi, Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi, Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad, Fakhrul Hasan Moradabadi, Islamul Haq Azmi, Akhtar Hussain Deobandi, Sharif Hasan Deobandi, Merajul Haq Deobandi, Naseer Ahmed Khan, Abdul Ahad Deobandi, Anzar Shah Kashmiri, Khurshid Alam Deobandi, Qamaruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri, and Wahiduzzaman Kairanawi.

He received his intermediate school education at Jamia Millia Islamia, studying with scholars including Abdul Haleem Nadvi and Ijteba Nadwi, in 1966. He completed the Higher Secondary Examination with the First Division and Second Division in 1968.

He completed his B.A. (honours) in Arabic from Aligarh Muslim University with first division and first position in 1971. His theology teacher was Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi, and his medieval Indian history teacher was Irfan Habib.

He completed his M.A. (Arabic) in 1973, securing first division and first position in 1973, and his MPhil in 1976. In 1986, he got his PhD for writing a dissertation in Arabic on the third volume of Al-Maqrizi's Arabic manuscript, Kitaab al-Muqaffa al-Kabeer, under the supervision of Mukhtaruddin Ahmad.

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