From the scholars of indian subcontinent Ahmad Ali Lahori, Shabbir Ahmad Uthmani and Israr Ahmad's lives, works and their contribution to tafsir works

This study treats with the three exegetes who lived in the 19th and the 20th century in Indian Subcontinent named as Ahmad Ali Lahori, Shabbir Ahmad Uthmani and Israr Ahmad. This work, which eventuates with the comparative method, firstly gives brief information about the arrival of Islam into the Indian subcontinent, the Islamic civilization that emerged there, and the tafsir works. After that, it lays stress upon the education of mentioned scholars, the scholarly society they grew up in, the struggle of Indian Muslims for the independence, the political contention they gave for the protection of their legal rights and for the solution of different problems. At last, this thesis tries to execute the methodologies of three scholars comparatively, which they used while writing their respective Urdu tafsirs. The comparison is done within the commentaries of these scholars regarding surah al-Fatiha and surah al-Saff. In conclusion, this work determines that Shabbir Ahmad Uthmani makes use of the departments of kalam, fiqh, history, linguistics, astronomy, medical and science in his tafsir whereas Ahmad Ali Lahori, who aims to bring down the Quranic message to the local community level, preferred to write brief tafsir. As for Israr Ahmed's tafsir, knowledgewise it is much more extensive then other two tafsirs. Keywords: Ahmed Ali Lahorî, Indian Subcontinent, Israr Ahmed, Shabbir Ahmad Uthmani, Tafsir