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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Abdulla, Raficq Shaik (1940–2019), scholar, broadcaster, and legal adviser
Khizar Humayun Ansari
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Abdulla, Raficq Shaik (1940–2019)
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Raficq Abdulla (1940–2019), by unknown photographer
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Akbar, Shireen Nishat (1944–1997)
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Shireen Nishat Akbar (1944–1997) by unknown photographer [third from left, in the Nehru Gallery of Indian Art, Victoria and Albert Museum] V&A Images, The Victoria and Albert Museum
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Akbar [née Hasib], Shireen Nishat (1944–1997), educationist
Julie Cornish
Akbar [née Hasib], Shireen Nishat (1944–1997), educationist, was born on 30 July 1944 in Calcutta, India, the daughter of F. A. Hasib and Selina Hasib, who also had two sons. Among her forebears was Begum Rokeya Hossain (1880–1932), an early worker for women's emancipation in ...
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Anwar, Muhammad (1945–2020), sociologist and scholar of race relations
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Anwar, Muhammad (1945–2020), sociologist and scholar of race relations, was born on 4 April 1945 in Sargodha, Punjab, British India, the son of Chaudhry Bashir Ahmed, a senior civil servant in the ministry of agriculture, and his wife, Fatima Bibi. He was brought up in ...
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Eaton, (Horace Charles Le) Gai [names in religion Hasan ‘Abd al-Hakim, Sidi Hasan] (1921–2010), diplomatist and Muslim scholar
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Eaton, (Horace Charles Le) Gai [names in religion Hasan ‘Abd al-Hakim, Sidi Hasan] (1921–2010), diplomatist and Muslim scholar, was born on 1 January 1921 in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Francis Henry Launcelot Errington (1854–1942), barrister, and Ruth Frances Muddock (1881–1973)...
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Faris, Ahmad [Aḣmad Fāris; formerly Faris ibn Yusuf al-Shidyaq] (1805/6–1887), author and translator
G. J. Roper
Faris, Ahmad [Aḣmad Fāris; formerly Faris ibn Yusuf al-Shidyaq] (1805/6–1887), author and translator, was born in al-Hadath, Lebanon, the youngest of five sons of Abu Husayn Yusuf ibn Mansur al-Shidyaq (1762–1821), secretary and tutor of Lebanese chieftains, and his wife, the daughter of ...
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Garba-Jahumpa, Ibrahima Momodou (1912–1994), schoolteacher and politician in Gambia
Arnold Hughes
Garba-Jahumpa, Ibrahima Momodou (1912–1994), schoolteacher and politician in Gambia, was born in Bathurst (Banjul), capital of the British colony of Gambia, in 1912, the son of Momodou Jahumpa, a shipwright and senior figure in the local Mohammedan Society, whose family had emigrated to ...
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Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat (c. 1880–1932), educationist and social reformer in India
Sonia Nishat Amin
Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat (c. 1880–1932), educationist and social reformer in India, was born Rokeya Khatun in Pairaband, Rangpur district, Bengal, India, the second of three daughters and third of five children of Zahiruddin Abu Ali Haider Saber, landowner, and his wife, Rahatunnessa Sabera Chaudurani...
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Husain, Zakir (1897–1969), educationist and president of India
Aparna Basu
Husain, Zakir (1897–1969), educationist and president of India, was born in Hyderabad, the third of seven sons of Fida Husain (d. 1905), lawyer, and his wife, Naznin (d. 1911). The exact date of his birth is not recorded as it is said that his mother, fearing the evil eye, did not register his birth. In his passport it was given as 24 February 1897, but in other sources it is given as 8 February. His father belonged to a well-known family of Afridi Afghans who had long settled in ...
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Iqbal, Sir Muhammad (1877–1938), philosopher and poet
H. A. R. Gibb
revised by Francis Robinson
Iqbal, Sir Muhammad (1877–1938), philosopher and poet, was born at Sialkot in the Punjab on 9 November 1877. He was the younger son of Sheikh Nuruddin Muhammad, whose forebears were Hindu converts to Islam originally from Kashmir, and Imam Bibi, a devout woman of working-class background. He was educated at the ...
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Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932), Islamic scholar and missionary
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932), Islamic scholar and missionary, was born in Lahore, Punjab, British India, the son of Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din. He came from a Kashmiri family with a tradition of distinguished public service: his grandfather, Abdur Rashid, was at one time the qazi (chief Muslim judge) of ...
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Mustafa [née Butt], Sophia (1922–2005), teacher, politician, and author
Margret Frenz
Mustafa [née Butt], Sophia (1922–2005), teacher, politician, and author, was born in Quadian, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India, when her parents were on home leave from Kenya. Her father, Mohamed Hussein Butt (1890/91–1930), a Kashmiri Ahmadiyya, had moved to Kenya in 1910, where he worked for several companies and was a member of the ...
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Philby, Harry St John Bridger (1885–1960)
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Harry St John Bridger Philby (1885–1960) self-portrait, 1917–18 The Royal Geographical Society, London
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Philby, Harry St John Bridger (1885–1960), explorer and Arabist
James Craig
Philby, Harry St John Bridger (1885–1960), explorer and Arabist, was born at St John's, Badulla, Ceylon, on 3 April 1885, the second son of Harry Montagu Philby (d. 1913), a coffee planter, and his wife, Queenie (1864–1950), known as May, daughter of ...
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Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875–1936), writer and translator
Mohammad Shaheen
Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875–1936), writer and translator, was born on 7 April 1875 in Cambridge Terrace, London, the eldest of the two sons of the Revd Charles Grayson Pickthall (1822–1881), rector of Chillesford in Suffolk, and his second wife, Mary Hale, née O'Brien (1836–1904)...
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Stanley, Henry Edward John, third Baron Stanley of Alderley and second Baron Eddisbury (1827–1903), diplomatist and orientalist
Muriel E. Chamberlain
Stanley, Henry Edward John, third Baron Stanley of Alderley and second Baron Eddisbury (1827–1903), diplomatist and orientalist, born at Alderley Park, Chelford, near Crewe, on 11 July 1827, was the eldest of the ten children of Edward John Stanley, second Baron Stanley of Alderley...
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