Anwar Shaikh (Economist), Anwar Shaikh
Anwar Shaikh may refer to: * Anwar Shaikh (writer) Anirudh Gyan Shikha (1 June 1928 – 25 November 2006; known as Anwar Shaikh) was a British India-born British writer, who spent much of his adult life in Pakistan and United Kingdom, dying in Cardiff, Wales.''The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ay ... (1928–2006), British India-born British writer * Anwar Shaikh (economist) (born 1945), Pakistani American heterodox economist {{hndis, Shaikh, Anwar ...
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Anwar Shaikh (writer)
Anirudh Gyan Shikha (1 June 1928 – 25 November 2006; known as Anwar Shaikh) was a British India-born British writer, who spent much of his adult life in Pakistan and United Kingdom, dying in Cardiff, Wales.''The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West'' by Daniel Pipes, Pg. 283 Biography Born Hajji Muhammad Shaikh, he was born into a family descended from Kashmiri Pandit converts to Islam in the city of Gujrat located in the north of Punjab. He was born on the day of the Haj, or pilgrimage, in 1928, which prompted his parents to attach 'Hajji' to his first name, but he was also born with aposthia (in which boys are born without foreskin), which was seen as an even greater omen for a bright future; thus his name then became Muhammad Anwar Shaikh, with Anwar meaning radiant in the Arabic language. In his youth, Shaikh was an ardent believer of the Sunni branch of Islam his family devoutly practised, especially his mother, who could recite a large part of the Qur'an ...
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