Fatawa Tatarkhania is one of the greatest Islamic heritages and academic masterpiece left behind by Delhi Sultanate in India. Fatawa Tatarkhania was compiled into thirty volumes which serve as the encyclopedia of Islamic jurisprudence and fatwa literature. It is considered one of the reference books for the future works on Hanafi Fiqh. It was compiled by Shaikh 'Aalim bin 'Ala Indarpati (d. 1381/786AH) in the reign of Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq (i.e. 1351-1389), but it was attributed to a notable noble Tatar Khan for his patronage of learning class and ulama.

This grand collection of Hanafi Fiqh was prevalent for many centuries in the academic circles, but it was not published completely until recent time. The manuscripts of the collection were available in several libraries in Hyderabad, Rampur, Patna and Khedive Library Egypt, but the complete copy of it was preserved in the Library of Peer Muhammad Shah (d. 1751) in Ahmadabad (Gujarat, India).

Fatawa Tatarkhania was published twice; once in Pakistan and secondly in Beirut, but the credit of publishing its complete and edited version goes to Mufti Shabbir Ahmad Qasmi of Jamia Qasmia Shahi Moradabad (UP, INDIA) who after comparing its different copies, published in 23 thick volumes and 14,300 pages. He has numbered all the rulings of the book which reach up to 33,778. The book contains more than 10,000 references from the Quran and Hadith.

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Mufti Muhammadullah Qasmi

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