Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi (Punjabi: عنایت اللہ خاں مشرقی 'Ināyatullāh Khān Maśriqī; August 1888 – 27 August 1963), also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi (علامہ مشرقی 'Allāmah Maśriqī), was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Khaksar movement.

[1] Around 1930, he founded the Khaksar Movement,[3] aiming both to revive Islam among Muslims as well as to advance the condition of the masses irrespective of any faith, sect, or religion.

[4] Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi was born on 25 August 1888 to a Punjabi Muslim Sulheria Rajput family from Amritsar.

Because of his father's position he came into contact with a range of well-known luminaries including Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, and Shibli Nomani as a young man.

[13] The next year, Mashriqi was conferred with a DPhil in mathematics receiving a gold medal at his doctoral graduation ceremony.

[15] During his stay in Cambridge his religious and scientific conviction was inspired by the works and concepts of Professor Sir James Jeans.

In October 1917 he was appointed under secretary to the Government of India in the Education Department in succession to Sir George Anderson.

Mashriqi saw the two-nation theory as a plot of the British to maintain control of the region more easily, if India was divided into two countries that were pitted against one another.

"[26] On 20 July 1943, an assassination attempt was made on Muhammad Ali Jinnah by an individual named Rafiq Sabir Mazangavi who was assumed to be a Khaksar worker.

Later, Justice Blagden of the Bombay High Court in his ruling on 4 November 1943 dismissed any association between the attack and the Khaksars.

[16][page needed] In 1957, Mashriqi allegedly led 300,000 of his followers to the borders of Kashmir, intending, it is said, to launch a fight for its liberation.