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Ansari (nesbat)
. Not to be confused with Momin Ansari (Indian traditional weaving community). Al-Ansari or Ansari is an Arab community, found predominantly in the Arab and South Asian countries. The meaning of the word 'Ansari' is supporter, the community are known as Ansari. Historically, the community produced the sage, scholars and philosopher. The Ansari are an Urdu-speaking community, although the Ansari clan of Gujarat have Gujarati as their mother tongue.K. S. Singh, ''People of India Uttar Pradesh'', Volume XLII Part Two. Manohar Publications Notable Ansaris Medieval *Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a prominent companion of Muhammad * Ansari ( other companions of Muhammad) *Sa'id ibn Aws al-Ansari (died 830), Arab linguist and narrator of hadith *Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (d.767), Hanafi Muslim Jurist and scholar *Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013), also known as Albucasis, Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus * Alāʾ al‐Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ansari (1304–1 ...
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Momin Ansari
The Momin Ansari ( ur, مومن أنصاري) or saudagar are a Muslim community found mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. The surname originated from Ansar tribe, the Medinan people who helped the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, in his migration from Mecca to Medina. They were the first tribe in Arabia to accept Islam. The literal meaning of Ansar is "supporter". In North India, the community are known as Ansari while in Maharashtra the community are known as Momin or saudagar The community are found throughout India, but Varanasi District, in Uttar Pradesh, is always regarded by most Momin as the centre of their community. In that city, the Ansari are said to make up a third of the city's population. Important Ansari neighbourhoods in the city include Madanpura, Adampura and Jaitpura. There are many people outside South Asia with the surname Ansari; however, this article is strictly about a Muslim South Asian community. History The Ansaris of North India are mainly ...
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Sahaba
The Companions of the Prophet ( ar, اَلصَّحَابَةُ; ''aṣ-ṣaḥāba'' meaning "the companions", from the verb meaning "accompany", "keep company with", "associate with") were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime, while being a Muslim and were physically in his presence. "Al-ṣaḥāba" is definite plural; the indefinite singular is masculine ('), feminine ('). Later Islamic scholars accepted their testimony of the words and deeds of Muhammad, the occasions on which the Quran was revealed and other various important matters of Islamic history and practice. The testimony of the companions, as it was passed down through trusted chains of narrators (''isnad''s), was the basis of the developing Islamic tradition. From the traditions (''hadith'') of the life of Muhammad and his companions are drawn the Muslim way of life ('' sunnah''), the code of conduct (''sharia'') it requires, and the jurisprudence (''fiqh'') by which ...
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Abdulrahman Al-Ansary
Abdulrahman al-Ansary (A.R. al-Ansary, Abdul-Rahman al-Ansary; ar, عبدالرحمن بن محمد الطيب الأنصاري) is a former professor of archeology at King Saud University and member of the first and second terms of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia. Professor al-Ansary is the founder of the rediscovery of archeological site of Qaryat al-Fau.al-Ansary, A.RQaryat al-Fau: A Portrait of Pre-Islamic Civilisation in Saudi Arabia Riyadh University Press. 1982. Education Professor al-Ansary earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic language and literature from Cairo University in 1960 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the department of Semitic Studies of the University of Leeds in 1966. During his doctoral studies, he focused on the comparative study of Lihynite personal names and trained at archeological excavations with his thesis supervisor at Durham University and Motya, Sicily, and with Professor Kathleen Kenyon in Jerusalem in 1966. Career Professor ...
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Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Hidāyat Aḥmad Ayyūbī Anṣārī Gangohī (182611 August 1905) ( ur, ) was an Indian Deobandi Islamic scholar, a leading figure of the Deobandi jurist and scholar of hadith. His lineage reaches back to Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. Along with Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi he was a pupil of Mamluk Ali Nanautawi. Both studied the books of hadith under ''Shah Abdul Ghani Mujaddidi'' and later became Sufi disciples of Haji Imdadullah. His lectures on '' Sahih al-Bukhari'' and ''Jami` at-Tirmidhi'' were recorded by his student Muhammad Yahya Kandhlawi, later edited, arranged, and commented on by Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, and published as ''Lami` ad-Darari `ala Jami` al-Bukhari'' and ''al-Kawkab ad-Durri `ala Jami` at-Tirmidhi''. Name In ''Tazkiratur Rashid'' his name and nasab is given as follows: Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Hidāyat Aḥmad, Hidāyat Aḥmad, or , Hidāyah Aḥmad, group="note" ibn Qāẓī Pīr Bak͟hsh ibn Qāẓī G͟hulām Ḥasan ibn Qāẓī G͟hu ...
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Abidullah Ghazi
Abidullah Ansari Ghazi ( hi, अबिदुल्लाह ग़ाज़ी) (6 July 1936 - 11 April 2021) was an Indian American author, educator and poet. He authored more than 140 Islamic educational textbooks for children. He was also the executive director of IQRA' International Educational Foundation. His books have been translated into many languages and are part of the curriculum of Islamic schools in more than 40 countries. He was named by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre as being among the "500 Most Influential Muslims in the World." Early life and career Abidullah Ghazi was born in the northern Indian town of Ambehta Saharanpur district on 6 July 1936. Abidullah Ghazi received his master's degree from Aligarh Muslim University in 1959, MSc from the London School of Economics in 1967 and his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1973. Social and educational services #Founder-Director, Iqra International Educational Foundation (1983)
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Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari
Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (1884 – 11 January 1946) ( ur, ), (10 March 1884 – 11 January 1946) was a leader and a political activist of the Indian independence movement. He was a grandson of Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, one of the founders of Darul Uloom Deoband in 1868.Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari on GoogleBooks website
Retrieved 28 August 2019
Along with , he was one of the pioneer of the Silk Letter movement against British Raj.


Early life

Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari was born into an Ansari family in Saharanpur. He grew up in the house of Abdullah Ansari. Mansoor Ansari returned to the Dar ...
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Morteza Ansari
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Murtadha al-Ansari al-Tostari (1781–1864), ( ar, مرتضی الأنصاري التستري; fa, مرتضی انصاری شوشتری ), also transliterated as Mortaza Ansari Shushtari, was a Shia jurist who "was generally acknowledged as the most eminent jurist of the time." Ansari has also been called the "first effective" model or '' Marja'' of the ShiaMottahedeh, ''The Mantle of the Prophet'', (2000), p. 210 or "the first scholar universally recognized as supreme authority in matters of Shii law".Esposito, John, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Islam,'' (2003) p. 21 Life and studies Al-Ansari was born in Dezful around 1781, the time the Qajar dynasty was establishing its power in Iran. He commenced his religious studies in Defzul, under the tutelage of his uncle, himself a notable scholar. At the age of twenty, he made Ziyarat with his father to Kerbala, Iraq, where he met Mohammad Mujtahid Karbala'i, the leader of the city's scholars. Ansari demonstrat ...
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Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari
Hujjat al-Islam Professor Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari (1887-1979), alternatively spelled Muḥammad Latīf Anṣārī, was a 20th-century Shia Muslim scholar, poet, historian, and cleric from Pakistan. Ansari was born in British India, but migrated to the newly formed Pakistan immediately after it achieved independence. In Pakistan, he took up residence in the city of Wazirabad. He spent much of his life in Kenya, where he is remembered to this day by the Shia community for bringing active and organized Shi'ism to the country. Ansari spent the last ten years of his life partially paralysed. Although he was a prolific author, many of his books were not published. Years in Pakistan Ansari was a member of the Shi'i scholarly community, both in the years leading up to Partition in British India and over the first decade of Pakistani independence. He served as the Secretary-General of the Punjab Shia Conference (PuSC) under British rule in the 1940s, struggling against the passiv ...
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Zakariyya Al-Ansari
Zakariyyā al-Ansārī was a leading Sunni Muslim polymath ʿĀlim of the 15th century. Biography Birth He was born in or around 1420 CE, in Sunaika, located in the Egyptian province of Sharqiyya. Education During his adolescence, al- Ansārī moved to Cairo to study at al-Azhar University. He lived in such poverty there, that he would venture out into the night in search of water faucets and the rinds of watermelon. However, according to al-Ansārī's own account, after a few years at al-Azhar, a mill worker came to his aid. He provided the young al-Ansārī with money for his food, clothing and books. al-Ansārī told of a remarkable encounter with his benefactor told him, Eventually, this foretelling would prove to be accurate. While a student, al- Ansārī studied under al-Qāyāti, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalāni, Jalāl al-Dīn al Mahallī, Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam and Sharaf al-Din al Munawi. Teaching Zakariyyā al-Ansārī held the office of Shāfi’ī qādī for a twe ...
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Shams Al-Din Al-Ansari Al-Dimashqi
Sheikh Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi or simply al-Dimashqi ( ar, شمس الدين الأنصاري الدمشقي) (1256–1327) was a medieval Arab geographer, completing his main work in 1300. Born in Damascus—as his name "Dimashqi" implies—he mostly wrote of his native land, the Greater Syria (''Bilad ash-Sham''), upon the complete withdrawal of the Crusaders. He became a contemporary of the Mamluk sultan Baibars, the general who led the Muslims in war against the Crusaders. His work is of value in connection with the Crusader Chronicles. He died while in Safad, in 1327.le Strange, 1890p.10 Al-Dimashqi (1325) gives detailed accounts of islands in Maritime Southeast Asia, its inhabitants, flora, fauna and customs. He mentions "the country of Champa...is inhabited by Muslims and idolaters. Islam arrived there during the time of Caliph Uthman...and Ali, many Muslims who were expelled by the Umayyads and by Al-Hajjaj, fled there, and since then a majority of the Cham ...
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Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari or Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1088) ( fa, خواجه عبدالله انصاری) also known as ''Pir-i Herat'' () "Sage of Herat", was a Muslim Sufi saint who lived in the 11th century in Herat (modern-day Afghanistan). One of the outstanding figures of 5th/11th century Khorasan, Ansari was a commentator of the Qur'an, scholar of the Hanbali school of thought (madhhab), traditionalist, polemicist, and spiritual master, known for his oratory and poetic talents in Arabic and Persian. Life He was born in the Kohandez, the old citadel of Herat, on 4 May 1006. His father, Abu Mansur, was a shopkeeper who had spent several years of his youth at Balkh.S. de Laugier de Beaureceuil, "Abdullah Ansari" in Encylcoapedia Iranic/ref> Abdullah was a disciple of Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani. He practiced the Hanbali school of Sunni jurisprudence. The Shrine of Khwaja Abd Allah, built during the Timurid dynasty, is a popular pilgrimage site. H ...
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Ibn Al-Shatir
ʿAbu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ansari known as Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir ( ar, ابن الشاطر; 1304–1375) was an Arab astronomer, mathematician and engineer. He worked as '' muwaqqit'' (موقت, religious timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and constructed a sundial for its minaret in 1371/72. Biography Ibn al-Shatir was born in Damascus, Syria around the year 1304. His father passed away when he was six years old. His grandfather took him in which resulted in al-Shatir learning the craft of inlaying ivory. Ibn al-Shatir traveled to Cairo and Alexandria to study astronomy, where he fell in, inspired him. After completing his studies with Abu ‘Ali al-Marrakushi, al-Shatir returned to his home in Damascus where he was then appointed ''muwaqqit'' (timekeeper) of the Umayyad Mosque. Part of his duties as ''muqaqqit'' involved keeping track of the times of the five daily prayers and when the month of Ramadan would begin and en ...
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