Ahmad Khan, Sir Saiyid [Syed Ahmed Khan] (1817–1898), Muslim leader in India, was born on 17 October 1817 in Khwaja Farid's haveli (mansion) near the Tiraha Bahram Khan in Delhi, the youngest of the three children (two boys and one girl) of ...
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Ahmad Khan, Sir Saiyid [Syed Ahmed Khan] (1817–1898), Muslim leader in India
Francis Robinson
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Ameer Ali, Saiyid (1849–1928), judge and Muslim leader in India
S. V. FitzGerald
revised by Roger T. Stearn
Ameer Ali, Saiyid (1849–1928), judge and Muslim leader in India, was born on 6 April 1849 at Chinsura, Bengal, the fourth son of Saiyid Saadat Ali Khan (who died of cholera in 1856) of Mohan, Oudh, and his wife, the daughter of Shamsuddin Khan...
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Ameer Ali, Saiyid (1849–1928)
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Chunchie, Kamal Athon (1886–1953), Methodist minister and race relations worker
Rozina Visram
Chunchie, Kamal Athon (1886–1953), Methodist minister and race relations worker, was born on 4 June 1886 in Kandy, Ceylon, the eldest of nine children (five sons and four daughters) of Muslim parents of Malay origin. His father, Athon Chunchie (1849/50–1928), of the Inche Che...
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Maan, Bashir Ahmed (1926–2019), politician and community activist
Saqib Razzaq
Maan, Bashir Ahmed (1926–2019), politician and community activist, was born on 22 October 1926 in the village of Maan, near Qila Didar Singh, in the Gujranwala district of Punjab, British India, the son of Choudhry Sardar Khan Maan (b. 1899) and his wife, ...
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Patel, Adam Hafejee, Baron Patel of Blackburn (1940–2019), businessman, community activist, and politician
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Patel, Adam Hafejee, Baron Patel of Blackburn (1940–2019), businessman, community activist, and politician, was born on 7 June 1940 into a prosperous Muslim family in the village of Karmad, Gujarat, India, not far from Surat, where the first depot of the British East India Company...
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Quilliam, William Henry [known as Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam; Haroon Mustapha Leon] (1856–1932), lawyer and Muslim leader
John Guilford
Quilliam, William Henry [known as Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam; Haroon Mustapha Leon] (1856–1932), lawyer and Muslim leader, was born on 10 April 1856 at 22 Elliot Street, Liverpool, the son of Robert Quilliam, watch manufacturer, and his wife, Harriet, née Burrows. He was of Manx descent (and at one point active in the ...
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Siddiqui, Kalim (1933–1996), journalist and Muslim activist
Jørgen S. Nielsen
Siddiqui, Kalim (1933–1996), journalist and Muslim activist, was born on 2 July 1933 near Hyderabad, Deccan, India, one of a family of ten children. While he was still a small child the family moved to Sultanpur, a town between Allahabad and Fyzabad in ...
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Siddiqui, Kalim (1933–1996)
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