which is engaged in research, orientation and other academic activities aimed at finding Islamic Shariah guidance on contemporary issues since 1989. Maulana Azmi is the dean of Department of Hadith in Darul Uloom and has been one of the vice president of the Academy earlier. The election was necessitated following the death of Maulana Mufti Zafeeruddin Miftahi earlier this year.
He was elected at the Academy’s Board of Trustees meeting held on Tuesday here. ed by senior vice president Maulana Burhanuddin Sambhali oversaw the proceedings of the meet. It also expressed profound grief over the death of Maulana Zafeeruddin Miftahi and prayed to Allah for his salvation.
It has also decided to celebrate 20 years of Academy’s activities. The academy was founded by late Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi in 1989 to deliberate upon contemporary issues in the light of Islamic Shariah. The meeting also discussed and approved other programme and activities for 2011-2012.
Taking the note of some media reports on the happenings in the Academy in the Urdu press, members of the Board urged the Urdu media to report news in objective manner and not to indulge in unfounded and malicious gossiping in an unethical manner so that misunderstandings harming the community were not created.
Besides, Maulana Syed Nizamuddin, Ameer Shariat, Imarat Shariah Bihar Orissa and Jharkhand and a patron of the Academy, Hazrat Maulana Mufti Ashraf Ali Baqvi (vice president of the Academy and Ameer Shariat Karnataka), Maulana Abdul Ahad Azhari (Shaikhul Hadis, Mahad Millat-Malegaon), secretaries of IFA-India Maulana Ateeq Ahmad Bastvi Maulana Mohammad Ubaidullah Asadi and Maulana Ameen Usmani, and other members of the Board Dr. Mohammad Manzoor Alam (Chairman, Institute of Objective Studies) and Maulana Anisur Rahman Qasmi (Nazim-Imarat Sharia-Bihar Orissa Jharkhand), Maulana Qazi Mohammad Qasim Muzaffarpuri (Qazi Shariat- Bihar), and Mufti Ahmad Deolvi (Gujarat) were present in the meeting. General Secretary of the Academy Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani conducted the proceedings.
The Academy has deliberated upon more than 150 contemporary issues in 20 Fiqhi Seminar held so far and presented the Shariah positions on such issues. It has also translated the Fiqhi Encyclopedia, from Arabic to Urdu, published by Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf and more than 100 books and conducted more than 40 workshops for young Islamic Scholars.