Chiragh Ali
Indian Muslim scholar (1844–1895)
Moulví Cherágh Ali (1844–1895) (also spelled Chirágh) was an Indian Muslim scholar of the late 19th century.
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Quotes
edit- [Infidels were] deprived of their rights of freedom without being possessed by anybody.
- From this, South Asian scholars deduced that jihad was irrelevant when seizing infidels, who were ‘deprived of their rights of freedom without being possessed by anybody’.
- Ali, Cheragh [Chiragh] (1883) The proposed political, legal and social reforms in the Ottoman empire and other Mohammadan states, Bombay: Education Society’s Press. quoted in — William Gervase Clarence-Smith; W. G. Clarence-Smith (2006). Islam and the Abolition of Slavery. Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-19-522151-0.
