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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Ali, (Chaudhri) Muhammad (1905–1980), prime minister of Pakistan, 1955–6
Francis Robinson
Ali, (Chaudhri) Muhammad (1905–1980), prime minister of Pakistan, 1955–6, was born on 15 July 1905 in Nangalambia village, Jullundur district, Punjab province, India. His father was Chaudhri Khairuddin, a farmer and member of the Arain community, his mother, Ayesha Khairdin; he was the third of five children, with two elder sisters and two younger brothers. ...
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Ayub Khan, Mohammad (1907–1974), president of Pakistan
Ian Talbot
Ayub Khan, Mohammad (1907–1974), president of Pakistan, was born on 14 May 1907 at Rehana, in the Hazara district of the North-West Frontier Province of undivided British India. He was the fifth child of Mir Dad Khan, a retired Indian army junior officer. The family were comfortably off, but not wealthy members of the ...
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Ayub Khan, Mohammad (1907–1974)
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Mohammad Ayub Khan (1907–1974) by unknown photographer © reserved
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Azad, Abul Kalam (1888–1958), politician and author
Gail Minault
Azad, Abul Kalam (1888–1958), politician and author, was born on 11 November 1888 in Mecca, Arabia. His father, Sheikh Khairuddin Dehlavi (1831–1908), was an Islamic scholar and Sufi who had migrated to Mecca about the time of the 1857 revolt and there had married an Arab woman, the niece of the mufti of ...
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Dumbuya, Alimami Dala Muhammadu [Dala Modu] (c. 1760–1841), political leader in Sierra Leone
David E. Skinner
Dumbuya, Alimami Dala Muhammadu [Dala Modu] (c. 1760–1841), political leader in Sierra Leone, was born in Bambouk in the upper Senegal River region, the eldest son of Fenda Muhammadu Dumbuya and Mama Dalu of Bambouk. He was a member of the Dumbuya, one of the most distinguished merchant (...
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Husain, Sir Mian Fazl-i- (1877–1936), politician in India
Tahir Kamran
Husain, Sir Mian Fazl-i- (1877–1936), politician in India, was born on 14 June 1877 in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, India, where his father, Mian Husain Imam Bakhsh, was posted as 'extra assistant commissioner'. He came from a family of Bhatti Rajputs...
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Khaliquzzaman, Choudhry (1889–1973), politician in India and Pakistan
Francis Robinson
Khaliquzzaman, Choudhry (1889–1973), politician in India and Pakistan, was born on 25 December 1889 in Chunar, in the district of Mirzapur, of the North-Western Provinces of India. He was the fourth of the eight children of Sheikh Mohammad Zaman, an assistant tahsildar in British service, and his second wife, ...
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Khan Sahib (1883–1958), politician
F. M. Innes
revised by Ian Talbot
Khan Sahib (1883–1958), politician, was born in the village of Utmanzai in the Peshawar district where his father, Khan Behram Khan, was an influential Muhammadzai landowner. With his younger brother, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who later became known as the Frontier Gandhi, he was educated at the ...
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Khan, Abdul Ghaffar (1890–1988)
Maker: Narayan Vinayak Virkar
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) by Narayan Vinayak Virkar © Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
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Khan, Abdul Ghaffar (1890–1988), Pakhtun nationalist
Ian Talbot
Khan, Abdul Ghaffar (1890–1988), Pakhtun nationalist, was born in the village of Utmanzai in the Peshawar district of the North-West Frontier Province. He was the fourth child of Khan Behram Khan, an influential Muhammadzai landlord. Following admission to a mosque school at the age of five, he was educated at the ...
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Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh (1920–1975)
Maker: Douglas Miller
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Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh (1920–1975), president of Bangladesh
Craig Baxter
Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh (1920–1975), president of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara, Faridpur district, Bengal, on 17 March 1920, the first of six children of Sheikh Lutfur Rahman, a middle-class landowner, and Sahera Begum. He had one brother and four sisters. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
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Nuri al-Said (1888–1958), army officer and prime minister of Iraq
Michael T. Thornhill
Nuri al-Said (1888–1958), army officer and prime minister of Iraq, was born in December 1888 in Baghdad, the only son (there were also four daughters) of Said Taha (d. 1904), a minor official in Baghdad's Ottoman government, and his wife, Fatima. The family lived modestly in the northern part of the city, with fellow Arabs (rather than Turks) as neighbours. As a ...
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Sesay, al-Hajj Shaikh Jibril [known as Shaikh Gibril Sesay] (1903–1988), political leader
David E. Skinner
Sesay, al-Hajj Shaikh Jibril [known as Shaikh Gibril Sesay] (1903–1988), political leader, was born in the village of Mabayla in Sanda Tenraren chiefdom, Bomboli district, Sierra Leone. His father, Abu Bakari Lomeh Sesay (b. c.1879), was a Muslim scholar and wealthy merchant whose export–import business was based in ...
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Tajuddin Ahmed (1925–1975), prime minister of Bangladesh
Craig Baxter
Tajuddin Ahmed (1925–1975), prime minister of Bangladesh, was born in 1925 in the village of Dardaria in the upazila (sub-district) of Kapasia in the Gazipur district of Bengal. Little is known of his parents or early life. Often described as ‘leftist’ or ‘progressive’, he was identified as a member of the ‘liberal’ segment of the ...
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Tiwana, Sir Khizr Hayat (1900–1975), prime minister of the Punjab
Ian Talbot
Tiwana, Sir Khizr Hayat (1900–1975), prime minister of the Punjab, was born on 7 August 1900 in Chak Muzaffarabad, Sargodha, in the Shahpur district, Punjab, India. He was the son of Umar Hayat Khan Tiwana (1874–1944)—an honorary major-general in the Tiwana lancers (later the 19th (King George's own) lancers)...
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Turé, Fodé Ibrahim [known as Fodé Kombo Sillah] (c. 1825–1894), political leader in the Gambia
David E. Skinner
Turé, Fodé Ibrahim [known as Fodé Kombo Sillah] (c. 1825–1894), political leader in the Gambia, was born in Konoto, the Turé family compound in the town of Gunjur, Kombo kingdom, Gambia, west Africa. Konoto had been built by his great-grandfather Amatora Turé...
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Zia ul Haq, Mohammad (1922–1988)
Maker: Tony McGrath
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Mohammad Zia ul Haq (1922–1988) by Tony McGrath, c. 1982 Getty Images – Tony McGrath
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Zia ul Haq, Mohammad (1922–1988), president of Pakistan
Ian Talbot
Zia ul Haq, Mohammad (1922–1988), president of Pakistan, was born on 12 August 1922 in Jullundur in the pre-partition Punjab province of British India. He was born into a lower-middle-class Arain family. This was not the martial caste background from which the Indian army traditionally drew its Punjabi Muslim recruits. ...
