Background
He was born into a Noble family of Ansari in Uttar Pradesh Saharanpur. He grew up in the house of Allama Abdullah Ansari.
He was born into a Noble family of Ansari in Uttar Pradesh Saharanpur. He grew up in the house of Allama Abdullah Ansari.
Mansoor Ansari returned to the Darul-Uloom Deoband and gradually became involved in the Pan-Islamic movement. During World War I, he was among the leaders of the Deoband School, who, led by Maulana Mahmud al Hasan, left India to seek support of the Central Powers for a Pan-Islamic revolution in India in what came to be known as the Silk Letter Movement. He received his primary education at Madrasa-e Manba al-Ulum, Gulaothi, where his father was a head-teacher.
A year before India became free (August 15, 1947), he died after thirty-one years of exile.
Mansoor Ansari went to Kabul during the war to rally the Afghan Amir Habibullah Khan. He joined the Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul in December 1915, and remained in Afghanistan until the end of the war.
He traveled to Russia and spent two years in Turkey, as well as passing through many other countries. In 1946, the Indian National Congress requested him to return to India so the British Raj gave him the permission.
Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari was taken seriously ill and died on January 11, 1946 at Jalalabad (Nangarhar Province).
He was buried in the graveyard adjacent to the grave of his Mentors in Laghman (Muhtharlam BaBa). (Laghman, Muhtharlam BaBa is 35 km District, Laghman, Afghanistan).