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Abaqati
The Abaqati family (or ''Khandān-e-Abaqāat'') is a sub-branch of the Jarwal-Kintoor'' branch of ''Nishapuri Kazmi- Musavi Sayeds who trace their lineage to the Islamic prophet Muhammad through eldest son of great-grandson of Musa al-Kadhim, he was given ''jagir'' in Jarwal-Kintoor by Sultan Muhammad Tughluq, other two were given ''jagir'' in Budgam, Kashmir and Sylhet, Bengal. The most famous of ''Kintoori Sayyeds'' is Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Saheb-e-Abaqaat, author of a work entitled Abaqat al Anwar'; the first word in the title of this work provided his descendants with the ''nisba'' (title) they still bear, ''Abaqati''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abaqati
The Abaqati family (or ''Khandān-e-Abaqāat'') is a sub-branch of the Jarwal-Kintoor'' branch of ''Nishapuri Kazmi- Musavi Sayeds who trace their lineage to the Islamic prophet Muhammad through eldest son of great-grandson of Musa al-Kadhim, he was given ''jagir'' in Jarwal-Kintoor by Sultan Muhammad Tughluq, other two were given ''jagir'' in Budgam, Kashmir and Sylhet, Bengal. The most famous of ''Kintoori Sayyeds'' is Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Saheb-e-Abaqaat, author of a work entitled Abaqat al Anwar'; the first word in the title of this work provided his descendants with the ''nisba'' (title) they still bear, ''Abaqati''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati
Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Musavi, known as Roohul Millat and Agha Roohi, is a Shia cleric from Lucknow, India. Family background Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati popularly known as Agha Roohi is a Shia scholar from Lucknow, India and comes from the family of Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi whose book ''`Abaqat al'anwar fi imamat al 'A'immat al'athar'' is popular among Twelver Shi'a scholars worldwide, and quoted even today. He belongs to the lineage of Syed Mohammad Quli Khan.Roots of North Indian Shi‘ism in Iran and Iraq Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859 ''by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford'' His family is renowned and respected in |
Kintoor
Kintoor or Kintur is a village in Barabanki district famous for battle of Kintoor of 1858 during the Indian Mutiny. Battle of Kintoor The Battle of Kintoor was a conflict between rebel sepoys and troops East India Company and Kapurthala State on 6 October 1858 during Indian Mutiny. British Raj During 1869 census of Oudh, Kintoor was designated as one of the total thirteen large towns or ''kasbahs'' and Inspector of Police of Ram Nagar was appointed here on the night of census. Personalities Nishapuri Sada'at of Kintoor Many of the early Sufi saints that came to North India belonged to Sayyid families. Most of these Sayyid families came from Central Asia and Iran, but some also originate from Yemen, Oman, Iraq and Bahrain. Perhaps the most famous Sufi was Syed Salar Masud, from whom many of the Sayyid families of Awadh claim their descent.People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Three, edited by A Hasan & J C Das Sayyids of Jarwal (Bahraich), Kintoor (Barabanki) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi
Syed Hamid Hussain Musavi ''Kintoori Lakhnavi Hindi Neshapuri'' (1830 - 1888) (Hindi: आयतुल्लाह सय्यिद मीर हामिद हुसैन मुसवी किन्तूरी लखनवी, Urdu: آيتالله سیید میر حامد حسین موسوی کنتوری لکھنوی), was a Shia scholar in India. He was a son of Syed Muhammad Quli ''Kinturi'' and author of the book, Abaqat ul Anwar fi Imamat al Ai'imma al-Athar'. ''by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford''Islam, politics, and social movements ''By Edmund Burke, Ervand Abrahamian, Ira M. Lapidus'' Birth Sye ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulagu Khan
Hulagu Khan, also known as Hülegü or Hulegu ( mn, Хүлэгү/ , lit=Surplus, translit=Hu’legu’/Qülegü; chg, ; Arabic: fa, هولاکو خان, ''Holâku Khân;'' ; 8 February 1265), was a Mongol ruler who conquered much of Western Asia. Son of Tolui and the Keraite princess Sorghaghtani Beki, he was a grandson of Genghis Khan and brother of Ariq Böke, Möngke Khan, and Kublai Khan. Hulagu's army greatly expanded the southwestern portion of the Mongol Empire, founding the Ilkhanate of Persia, a precursor to the eventual Safavid dynasty, and then the modern state of Iran. Under Hulagu's leadership, the siege of Baghdad (1258) destroyed Baghdad's standing in the Islamic Golden Age and weakened Damascus, causing a shift of Islamic influence to the Mamluk Sultanate in Cairo and ended the Abbasid Dynasty. Background Hulagu was born to Tolui, one of Genghis Khan's sons, and Sorghaghtani Beki, an influential Keraite princess and a niece of Toghrul in 1217. Noth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awadh
Awadh (), known in British historical texts as Avadh or Oudh, is a region in the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which was before independence known as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. It is synonymous with the Kośāla region of Hindu, Bauddh, and Jain scriptures. Awadh is bounded by the Ganges Doab to the southwest, Rohilkhand to the northwest, Nepal to the north, and Bhojpur-Purvanchal to the east. Its inhabitants are referred to as Awadhis. It was established as one of the twelve original subahs (top-level imperial provinces) under 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar and became a hereditary tributary polity around 1722, with Faizabad as its initial capital and Saadat Ali Khan as its first Subadar Nawab and progenitor of a dynasty of Nawabs of Awadh (often styled Nawab Wazir al-Mamalik). The traditional capital of Awadh is Lucknow, also the station of the British Resident, which now is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. Etymology The word Awadh is supposed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mashhad
Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province and has a population of 3,001,184 (2016 census), which includes the areas of Mashhad Taman and Torqabeh. The city has been governed by different ethnic groups over the course of its history. Mashhad was once a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road connecting with Merv to the east. It enjoyed relative prosperity in the Mongol period. The city is named after the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, who was buried in a village in Khorasan Province, Khorasan which afterward gained the name, meaning the "place of Martyr, martyrdom". Every year, millions of pilgrims visit the Imam Reza shrine. The Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid is also buried within the same shrine. Mashhad is also known colloq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan (title)
Khan ''khan/qan''; tr, han; Azerbaijani: ''xan''; Ottoman: ''han''; Old Turkic: ''kan''; Chinese: 汗 ''hán''; Goguryeo: 皆 ''key''; Buyeo: 加 ''ka''; Silla: 干 ''kan''; Gaya: 旱 ''kan''; Baekje: 瑕 ''ke''; Manchu: ; Persian: خان; Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਨ; Hindustani: ख़ान or ख़ां (Devanagari), or (Nastaleeq); Balochi: خان; Bulgarian: хан, ''khan''; Chuvash: хун, ''hun''; Arabic: خان; bn, খান or ) () is a historic Turko-Mongol title originating among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe to refer to a chief or ruler. It first appears among the Rouran and then the Göktürks as a variant of khagan (sovereign, emperor) and implied a subordinate ruler. In the Seljuk Empire, it was the highest noble title, ranking above malik (king) and emir (prince). In the Mongol Empire it signified the ruler of a horde (''ulus''), while the ruler of all the Mongols was the khagan or great khan. The title subsequently de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatehpur, Barabanki
Fatehpur is a town in Barabanki district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is also a Nagar panchayat, Police station and Tehsil. It is the second biggest urban area of the district after Barabanki city. It is about 35 km north-east of Lucknow, the state capital. Yugantar Inter College is situated here. Geography Fatehpur is located at . It has an average elevation of 140 metres (460 feet). Demographics India census, Fatehpur (NP) had a population of 35,582, of which males were 18,649 and females 16,933. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 4,963. The total number of literates in Fatehpur was 20,956, which constituted 58.9% of the population with male literacy of 61.6% and female literacy of 55.9%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Barabanki was 68.4%, of which male literacy rate was 71.6% and female literacy rate was 65.1%. The Scheduled Caste population was 1,767 and the total number of households was 5617. Languages Hindi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barabanki District
Barabanki district is one of the five Districts of Uttar Pradesh, districts of Faizabad division (officially ''Ayodhya division''), in the central Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, India. Barabanki city is the administrative headquarters of Barabanki district. Total area of Barabanki district is 3891.5 Sq. Km. It has a population of 2,673,581, with a population density of . Barabanki district is situated between 27°19′ and 26°30′ north latitude, and 80°05′ and 81°51′ east longitude; it runs in a south-easterly direction, confined by the nearly parallel streams of the Ghaghara and Gomti. The extreme length of the district from east to west may be taken at , and the extreme breadth at ; the total area is about . It borders seven other districts of Uttar Pradesh. With its most northern point it shares borders with the Sitapur district, while its north-eastern boundary is defined by the Ghagra, beyond which lie the districts of Bahraich district and Gonda district. Its easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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