Muhammad Yusuf Taulawi
Maulana, Mufti Muhammad Yusuf Taʾulawī | |
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محمد یوسف تاؤلوی | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 9 September 1954 Tawli, Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Parent | Azīmuddin (father) |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith, fiqh, kalam, tafsir, Urdu poetry |
| Alma mater | Darul Uloom Deoband |
| Occupation | Islamic scholar, jurist, teacher, author, poet |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
Muhammad Yusuf Taʾulawī (born 9 September 1954), generally written as Mufti Yusuf Tawli, is an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar of the Deobandi tradition, a mufti, and a long-serving teacher of hadith and fiqh at Darul Uloom Deoband, where he also held academic administrative roles including Nazim-e-Taʿlimat (2016–2019). He has authored more than two dozen works in Urdu and Arabic—among them the multi-volume al-Fatāwā al-Yūsufiyyah, Ashraf al-Hidāyah (on the fourth part of al-Hidāyah), and commentaries on Tafsir al-Baydawi and al-Fawz al-Kabir. Taʾulawī’s Urdu poetry has been anthologized in Nadīm Aḥmad Anṣārī’s Shiʿr-i Faqīh (2019). Spiritually, he is a recognized khalīfah of Mahmood Hasan Gangohi, and he established the publishing house Maktabah Faqīh al-Ummat for issuing his and others' scholarly works.