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== Early Life and Career ==
AzmiAllama Qamruzzama was born into ahighly deeply religiousspiritual and educatedwell literate Sunni Sufi family on March 23, 1946 in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pardesh , India. HeHis wasbirth givenname the nameis Mohammad Khan Qamaruzzaman Azmi. His illustriousnoble father was Allama Abdul Hameed Khan who was the son of Allama Abdul Samad Khan. He learned Persian and Urdu from his father and grandfather and received the initial Islamic education from a local institution called Anwar-ul-Uloom. He was admitted to one of India's top Islamic institutions, Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, AzamgarhMubarakpur, at the age of twelve. From there he was admitted in Darul uloom Nadwat-ul-Ulema at the age of eighteen, where he obtained his Aalim degrees and then returned to Al Jamiatul Ashrafia MubarajpurMubarakpur where he received the Dastar-e-Fazilat (Turban of Honor) and the Sanad (Islamic degrees) by the hands of the founder of that university, He was ordered by His Holiness Hafiz-e-Millat Hazrat Maulana Abdul Aziz Muhaddith-e-Muradabadi (May Allah have mercy on him) to go to Faizabad (near Lucknow) in 1966 at the age of eighteen to work as a Mudarris9Mudarris (religious teacher) . At that tender age of eighteen, he founded the Islamic University, Al-Jamiatul-Islamia, which is now recognized as one of India's top Islamic universities. In 1973, an agreement was made in the holy city of Mecca to establish the first international Sunni organization, The World Islamic Mission. The Ra'ees-ul-Qalam Hazrat Allama Arshad-ul-Qadri has invited Hazrat Allama Azmi to work withjoin him as the Joint Secretary General. He subsequently moved to Bradford, Great Britain in 1974. Saut-ul-Azhar, the Egyptian newspaper recently devoted an extensive piece on his life, contributions and scientific speeches. Elsewhere, newspapers and magazines in India, Pakistan, the Middle East, South Africa, Europe, America and Canada have written articles about him. A collection of extraordinary scientific speeches by his hand has already been published in three volumes. Part one was compiled by Mohammad Rehan Raza Misbahi and Maulana Abdullah Azmi in a 376-page pages book consisting of twelve major speeches on Khutbaat-e-Muffakir-e-Islam law (Speeches of the Great Thinker of Islam) published by Maktaba-e-Taiba, Mumbai, India. Part two was turned into a 512-page pages book, consisting of nineteen speeches compiled by Mohammad Sajid Hussain Qadri entitled Khutbaat-e-Muffakir-e-Islam (Speeches of the Great Thinker of Islam) and published by Maktaba Taiba, Hyderabad. This was launched by former Grand Mufti of India Mufti Akhtar Raza Khan and Allama Zia-ul-Mustafa Razvi Qadri. Part three was turned into a 240 pagepages book consisting of eleven speeches entitled Ilmi taqreeray'n (scientific speeches) compiled by Imran Hussain Chaudhary and published by the Sunni Foundation in Pakistan in 2008. This was launched by Tajus-sharia Hazrat Maulana Mufti Akhtar Raza Khan and Mohaddith-e-Kabir Hazrat Allama Zia-ul-Mustafa (see the Daily Mansaf and the Daily Sayaasat, February 20, 2004). Part three was turned into a 240 page book consisting of eleven speeches entitled Ilmi taqreeray'n (Scientific Speeches) compiled by Imran Hussain Chaudhary and published by the Sunni Foundation in 2008 in Pakistan. This was launched by Tajus-sharia Hazrat Maulana Mufti Akhtar Raza Khan and Mohaddith-e-Kabir Hazrat Allama Zia-ul-Mustafa . Part three was turned into a 240 page book consisting of eleven speeches entitled Ilmi taqreeray'n (Scientific Speeches) compiled by Imran Hussain Chaudhary and published by the Sunni Foundation in 2008 in Pakistan.
His collection of poetry Khayabaan-e-Midhat Volume One was published in 2007 by Maktaba Taiba, Mumbai, India and Volume Two in 2011 by the Sunni Foundation in Pakistan. These publications have been praised by newspaper critics, scholars and intellectuals around the world. He has written more than 200 articles which are currently collected and published under the title Maqaalat-e-Muffakir-e-Islam. His books like Jamaal-e-Mustafa are already in circulation in India. His Eminence's selfless missionary life spans nearly fifty years. During this period he has helped to build many organizations and institutions around the world such as mosques, colleges and universities in America, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Belgium and India. Each institution helps to make a difference to hundreds of lives around the world. For example, Al-Jamiatul Islamia in Raunahi alone saw four hundred Ulemas graduate in 2011. He has also been honored with awards and certificates of appreciation including the recent Mufti-e-Azam Gold Medal Award from the renowned Raza Academy in Mumbai.
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