Allama Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (7 April 1796 – 19 August 1861) was a Hanafi jurist, rationalist Maturidi theologian philosopher and a poet. He did Jehad against British occupation and issued a first indian fatwa of armed fighting in favor of jihad against the British empire in 1857 and thus became an inspiration for revolutionaries of Indian Rebellion of 1857]].