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Shamsul Ulama
Shamsul Ulama ( ar, شمس العلماء "sun of the scholars") is a religious title that has been taken by or granted to various individuals in India including: * Maulvi Nazir Ahmed (1836–1912) * Shibli Nomani (1857–1914) * Shah Badruddin (1852–after 1920) * Jivanji Jamshedji Modi Dr. Sir Ervad Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (1854–1933), who also carried the title of Shams-ul-Ulama, was a prominent Parsis, Zoroastrian Parsi-Indian priest, scholar and community leader in Bombay. One of "the most decorated priests in history", he w ... (1854–1933), Zoroastrian priest * E. K. Aboobacker Musliar (1914–1996), leader of Kerala Muslims * Imdad Imam Asar, Indian poet, critic and writer * Mohammad Abdul Jalil Usmani, 1897, Professor Arabic and Persian, Religious scholar. References {{set index Arabic words and phrases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maulvi Nazir Ahmed
Maulvi Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, also known as Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu novel writer, social and religious reformer, and orator. Even if today’s he’s best known for his novels, he wrote over 30 books on subjects such as law, logic, ethics and linguistics. His famous novels are ''Mirat-ul-Uroos'' ''Tobat-un-Nasuh'' and ''Ibn-ul-waqt''. He also translated the Qur’an into Urdu. Early life and upbringing Nazir Ahmad was born in 1831 to a family of scholars in Rehar, Bijnor District, U.P., India. His father, Saadat Ali Khan, was a teacher at a religious seminary, madrassa. Until the age of nine, he was home-schooled in Persian and Arabic. He then studied Arabic grammar for five years under the guidance of Deputy Collector Bajnor, Nasrallah Saheb. To further Ahmad's Arabic skills, in 1842 his father took him to Delhi to study under the guidance of Abd ul-Khaliq at the Aurangabadi Mosque. Ahmad's family was greatly opposed to sending boys to educational institutions runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shibli Nomani
Shibli Nomani ( ur, – ; 3 June 1857 – 18 November 1914) was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj. He was born at Bindwal in Azamgarh district of present-day Uttar Pradesh.Versatile Scholar Shibli Nomani remembered today Associated Press Of Pakistan website, Published 18 November 2019, Retrieved 16 July 2020 He is known for the founding of the Shibli National College in 1883 and the Darul Mussanifin (House of Writers) in Azamgarh. As a supporter of the |
Islamic Foundation Bangladesh
Islamic Foundation Bangladesh ( bn, ইসলামিক ফাউন্ডেশন বাংলাদেশ) is a government organization under the '' Ministry of Religious Affairs'' in Bangladesh working to disseminate values and ideals of Islam and carry out activities related to those values and ideals. The head office of the foundation is in Dhaka, which is supported by 6 divisional offices and 64 district offices, as well as 7 Imam Training Academy Centers and 29 Islamic Mission Centers. The director general is the chief executive of the foundation. History In 1959, two organizations were formed in Dhaka, Bangladesh to propagate the teachings and following of Islam. The Baitul Mukarram Society built the Baitul Mukarram ( ar, بيت المكرّم; the holy house) mosque and Islamic scholars formed a '' Darul Ulum'' ( ar, دار العلوم; house of knowledge) to popularize and research on Islamic philosophy, culture and way of life. In 1960, the Darul Ulum was renamed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shah Badruddin
Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of Persianate societies, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Kazakh Khanate, the Khanate of Bukhara, the Emirate of Bukhara, the Mughal Empire, the Bengal Sultanate, historical Afghan dynasties, and among Gurkhas. Rather than regarding himself as simply a king of the concurrent dynasty (i.e. European-style monarchies), each Iranian ruler regarded himself as the Shahanshah ( fa, شاهنشاه, translit=Šâhanšâh, label=none, ) or Padishah ( fa, پادشاه, translit=Pâdešâh, label=none, ) in the sense of a continuation of the original Persian Empire. Etymology The word descends from Old Persian ''xšāyaθiya'' "king", which used to be considered a borrowing from Median, as it was compared to Avestan ''xšaθra-'', "power" and "command ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
Dr. Sir Ervad Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (1854–1933), who also carried the title of Shams-ul-Ulama, was a prominent Parsis, Zoroastrian Parsi-Indian priest, scholar and community leader in Bombay. One of "the most decorated priests in history", he wrote over 70 books, produced over 120 scholarly papers on Zoroastrian history, traveled and researched into Zoroastrian affairs extensively and was instrumental in organizing the Parsis, Parsi community in India. During his lifetime he had been called "the greatest living authority on the ancient history and customs of the Parsis." Books * The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees (1922) * My Travels Outside Bombay (written in Gujarati language, Gujarati (1926) Honors and awards * B.A. (Bombay University, 1876) * Fellow of the University of Bombay (1887) * Dip. Litteris et Artibus (Sweden, 1889) * Shamsul Ulama, Shams-Ul-Ulama (Government of British India, 1893) * Officier d'Académie, Officier d'Academie (France, 1898) * Off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imdad Imam Asar
Syed Imdad Imam Asar Nawab (17 August 1849–17 October 1933) was an Indian poet, critic and writer from Patna, Bihar. He was professor of History and Arabic in Patna College. Personal life Asar was born to Shamsul Ulama titled Syed Wahiduddin Khan Bahadur on 17 August 1849 in Karai Parsurai, near Patna in Bihar, now in Hilsa, Nalanda district. Asar's sister Rasheed Un Nisa is known to be first Urdu Language Indian woman novelist. The Prime Minister of Hyderabad State, Syed Ali Imam and Indian National Congress President Syed Hasan Imam Syed Hasan Imam (31 August 1871 – 19 April 1933) was an Indian politician who served as the President of the Indian National Congress and was elected in September 1918. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Muhammad Abdul Jalil Usmani
This is an incomplete list of biographical dictionaries. International * '' A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers'' * '' Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'' * Akyeampong, Emmanuel and Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., eds. ''Dictionary of African Biography'' (Oxford, 2012) * Amit, Vered, ''Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology''. * Anderson, Gerald with Robert Coote, eds, ''Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions'', Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. . . * Anderson, Roger, ''Psychics, Sensitives, and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies'', Jefferson / London: McFarland, 2006. . * Arestis & Sawyer, ''A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists''. * Baker, Theodore & Alfred Remy, ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians''. * ''Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals''. * ''Biographical Dictionary of Organists, Composers for Organ and Organ Builders'' * ''Biographical Dictionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
