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While exploring the educational landscape of the Muslims in Tamil Nadu, I came to one of the outstanding personalities of the State, whose short biography is as under: “S. Mohamed Meera Rowther @ Hajee Karutha Rowther was born of noble parents at Uthamapalayam in 1888. Being the founder president of Hajee Karutha Rowther Howdia College,…
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Imran Khan Nadvi was one of the Islamic Scholars from Madhya Pradesh who have actively worked in the field of education and promoting Islamic history and culture in India. His detailed profile is as follows: “FAMILY Maulana Muhammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari was of Afghani Pathan race. His great grandfather Noor Muhammad Sahab used to…
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Hazrat Maulana Ghulam Farid Hanifi Teghi is one of the prominent Islamic scholars and Islamic mystics belonging to the Teghi and Aabadani orders of Islamic mysticism and Sufism being practiced by a large section of the Muslim community in India and elsewhere. His father Shah Mohammad Hafiz Hanif Qadri Teghi was a distinguished Sufi Buzurg…
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Yesterday one of my dear cousins sent an image of Ishtihar (poster) for communicating Gulshan-e-Madina conference. This is an annual gathering of a galaxy of Islamic scholars, preachers, Sana Khan-e-Mohammad (PBUH), rectors of Islamic seminaries from nearby villages, towns on the state level and even on the national level. My cousin referred to above has…
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Ali Miyan signifies to that personality among Indian Muslims, who was a genius and talked and wrote in Arabic as nobody did in the subcontinent. Here I render the second chapter of the Arabic Reader “Al-qirautur-Rashida Volume First” written by the author of this textbook that reflects the childhood of Ali Miyan (Hazrat Maulana Abul…
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Mumtaz Patel belongs to an active political family from Gujarat that constitutes her parents and sibling in active in the political arena. Ahmad Patel, his father and eight times MP from his native state, political secretary to Sonia Gandhi and treasurer of All India Congress Committee, was born in Bharuch on 21st of August, 1949…
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Dr Intekhab Alam coming from Bajpatti, true to his name, is a politician from Bajpatti in Sitamarhi District of Bihar. Intekhab is a popular name of Muslims in the subcontinent, belonging to the Arabic language meaning to elect and election. There is another word from this very root prevalent in Urdu, Muntakhab ‘Elected One’. Election…
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Atique Muzaffarpuri, coming from the village Mahesh Sthan was one of the prominent Urdu journalists, fiction writers and poets of the North Bihar. Some of his gazals and one book compiled by him ‘Sabrang Shaeri’ amongst others are available online. I have gone through his poems finding interesting and hilarious: फ़लक पर कोई साज़िश हो…
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Nayyar Miya is contemporary Islamic mystic, scholar and social activist from Rudauli Sharif. The successor to the Shaikhul Alam and Masnad Nasheen of the Khanqah at Rudauli in Barabanki, he is also addressed as Nayyar-e-Millat. He is active in numerous areas of Islamic and human causes adhering to the teachings and traditions of his Sufi…
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Faqihul Hind, Khalid Saifullah Rahmani
