Books of Maulana Attaullah Dervi: A Research Review onthe Introduction and Style

Abstract

The land of Dera Ghazi Khan is scientifically (knowledge wise) a fertile land. From here, many
unique scholars have come to the fore. There are some of them who lived in anonymity all their
lives and quietly engaged in the work of writing and compiling. Maulana Attaullah Dervi is one of
the anonymous scholars. He was born in 1947 and died in 2020 at the age of seventy-three years.
He lived in United Arab Emirates for thirty years as an imam and preacher. After returning home
in 2008, he established a grand Library next to his Mosque named "Maktaba Derviah". In this
Library, there is a rich collection of basic Shariah sources. Maulana Attaullah Dervi was blessed by
Allah Almighty with the blessing of pen and paper. He wrote on various topics and compiled more
or less twenty-six books and magazines. While he also translated two Arabic books in Urdu format
and later compiled commentaries on them. Out of these compilations, only ten have been
printed. Among these books there are also magazines written on different topics besides beliefs,
jurisprudential issues. In this research article, the research introduction and style of some
impotant books of his works have been presented .