Abdulla, Raficq Shaik (1940–2019), scholar, broadcaster, and legal adviser, was born on 29 June 1940 in Durban, South Africa, the son of Shaik Abdulla, an Indian landowner and businessman of Hyderabadi origin, based in Durban, and his wife Mosida Ismail, née Abraham, a doctor, from a ...
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Raficq Abdulla (1940–2019), by unknown photographer
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Muhammad Abdus Salam (1926–1996) by Ball, 1979 Getty Images – Ball
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Salam, Muhammad Abdus (1926–1996), theoretical physicist, was born on 29 January 1926 in Santokdas in the district of Sahiwal in the western Punjab, India (later Pakistan), the eldest of nine children of Muhammad Hussain (1891–1969), an educational official in the small market town of ...
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Winn, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-, fifth Baron Headley (1855–1935), civil engineer and convert to Islam, was born on 19 January 1855 in Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, London, the only son in the family of four children of the Hon. Rowland Allanson-Winn (1816–1888)...
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Rowland George Allanson Allanson- Winn, fifth Baron Headley (1855–1935) by Bassano, 1920 © National Portrait Gallery, London
