Maulana Sibte Hassan Naqvi (Nasirabadi)
Maulana Syed Sibte Hasan Naqvi (مولانا سيد سبط حسن نقوى) was a Shia scholar from the family of Syed Dildar Ali Naqvi Naseerabadi aka Ghufran Ma'ab known as Khandaan-e-Ijtehad.
He held the title Shamsa Ulema translating as 'the Sun of scholarsï awarded by Iraqi clergy.
He was most famous for refining the style of Muharram majlis to the format used today, most notably in the Urdu language amongst the South Asian Shia community. Before his time, majaalis in Lucknow and other places contained marsiya, recited by great poets like Meer Babbar Ali Anees and Mirza Dabeer. He introduced an academic structured approach in oration, with the Qazi recital at the end of the majlis, as opposed to the Iranian style of Qazi recital of majlis throughout. It was this radical dynamism which pedaled the acceptance of Shia Islam in the region as well as being a reason for the title awarded to him, sadly the dynamism brought to the Islamic world and especially to the region was too far reaching for contemporary Qazi recitalists of the time. The new format had Khutba in Arabic, some tafseer, Fazail of Ahlul Bayt then Masaeb of Karbala.
He was poisoned with a sweet offering from a local Qazi. His burial place is in Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab.He also was a great poet,he used to compose in thre languasges the first verse in Urdu the second in Persian and the third in Arabic and all used to rhyme
He was also the teacher of Maulana Ibne Hasan Naunaharvi.
Maulana Syed Mohammad Waris Hasan Naqvi ex-principal of Madrasatul Waizeen, Lucknow was his son.
The Sibte Hasan foundation had been set up to remember the strides made by him, his two brothers Kamal Hussain and Zafar Mehndi (first translator of nahjul-balagah into urdu), and his son Waris Hassan for the shia community in India and the region.