Maulana Zahoor Ahmed Bugvi

Maulana Zahoor Ahmed Bugvi (also Qazi Zahoor Ahmed Bugvi; ; b. c. 1900) was a Pakistani religious scholar and political organiser of the Bugvi family of Bhera, notable for his role in the Khilafat Movement in Sargodha district in the early 1920s and for restoration work on the Sher Shah Suri Mosque (Jamia Masjid Bhera) in 1926.

Khilafat Movement

While studying intermediate at Islamia College, Lahore in 1919–21, Bugvi founded a Khilafat committee at Bhera and emerged as a leading organiser of the Khilafat Movement in Sargodha district. He travelled to towns and villages across Shahpur, Khushab and the Soon valley addressing Khilafat processions and distributing pamphlets that included Quranic verses, statements on the goals of the movement, appeals for donations and calls for the establishment of independent national educational institutions in Bhera.

He was arrested at Sargodha on 15 March 1922 and prosecuted in an English Summary Court, which sentenced him to one and a half years' imprisonment. He served the sentence in Jhelum and Rawalpindi jails before being released in late 1923, after which he remained under police observation by the colonial government.

After the formal end of the Khilafat Movement, the Central Khilafat Committee of India appointed Bugvi as the District Organiser of Jamat Tableegh Islam for Sargodha.

Religious work

Bugvi is documented as having repaired the Sher Shah Suri Mosque (Jamia Masjid Bhera) in 1926, continuing the family tradition of custodianship of the mosque. The mosque had been originally rebuilt in 1858 by his predecessor, Qazi Ahmed-ud-din Bugvi.

The auditorium named in his memory in Bhera, the Maulana Zahoor Ahmad Bugvi Auditorium, was inaugurated in August 2025 by the Al-Iftikhar Bugvia Foundation.

See also

• Bugvi family
• Khilafat Movement
• Sher Shah Suri Mosque
• Dar-ul-Uloom Azizia, Bhera