Mohammad Abbas Ansari (Urdu: محمد عباس انصاری) was a political leader and a well known Scholar, reformer, preacher and cleric. He was known for his religious lectures and as founder & chairman of the Ittihadul Muslimeen also known as Jammu & Kashmir Ittihadul Muslimeen (JKIM) an organization which aims to Shi’a–Sunni unity in Kashmir.
Molvi Abbas was born on 18 August 1936, in Srinagar to the influential Ansari family. After his preliminary education at a local school in Srinagar, he graduated from the Oriental College in Srinagar. After that he left for further studies in Lucknow, the centre of Islamic theological education in India. After spending years in Lucknow’s Sultanul Madaris, he undertook higher studies in Najaf, Iraq. He majored in Arabic literature, Philosophy, Hadith and Tafseer, Islamic Jurisprudence and Political Science. After eight years of study in Iraq he returned to Kashmir and launched a religio-political monthly magazine named “Safeena”.
Mohammad Abbas Ansari passed away on 25 October 2022 after a prolonged illness at his residence in Khankhai Subah area of Nawakadal in central Kashmir’s Srinagar city.
Abbas Ansari was not keeping well since long and over the couple of days his health condition deteriorated and he breathed his last at his residence today morning.
The deceased’s funeral was held after Zuhr prayers and body was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Babamazaar Zadibal.
Notably, Moulvi Abbas retired from active political life in 2010 devoting his entire time to spiritual pursuits.