Maulana is a title of respect, technically reserved for Muslim scholars or Ulema (plural of Aalim) who are knowledgable about Islam and have studied under a scholar or at a religious institution, e.g a madrassa or a Dar ul-Uloom. It is often used for people who are respected for their depth of knowledge (for example Maulana Maududi) or for their piety or service (for example Maulana Edhi. Ulema (Arabic: علماء) is the community of legal scholars of Islam and the Sharia. ... Ulema (Arabic: علماء) is the community of legal scholars of Islam and the Sharia. ... A Madrasah complex in Gambia The word madrasah in Arabic as well as in other Islamic languages such as kurdish,Urdu, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, etc. ... Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi (alternative spelling Syed; often referred to Maulana Maududi) was one of the most influential Muslim theologians of the 20th century and the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party), an Islamist political party in Pakistan. ... Abdul Sattar Edhi Dr Abdul Sattar Edhi, or Maulana Edhi, as he is often known, is one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan. ...
Its literal meaning in Arabic is "our lord", taken in the "Lords Spiritual" sense of the phrase.
The maternal grand-daughter of Maulana Muzaffar Husain was married to Maulana Mohammad Ismail.
Maulana Mohammad Ismail was the tutor of the children of Mirza Ilahi Bakhsh, who was related to Bahadur Shah Zafar the last of the Mughal Emperors.
Maulana Mohammad Ilyas used to tell that when the Ulema who had been the favorite pupils or disciples of Maulana Gangohi came to Gangoh, his brother would, often, stop the lessons and say that his education, then, lay in sitting with them and listening to their conversation.
Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880-1976) was a Muslim leader who used non-violent, mass civil disobedience techniques to promote nationalism in Assam, Bengal, and Bangladesh in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
Mobilizing the Muslim population of Assam, Bhashani established the provincial branch of the Muslim League and was elected its president in 1934.
After his return to East Bengal in 1948, the Maulana became one of the vanguards of the students' language movement demanding that Bengali be accorded equal recognition with Urdu, the language of West Pakistan, as one of the two official languages of the new Muslim nation of Pakistan.
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