Azim Tyabji was a Muslim scholar and reformer. He was the son of Hussein Tyabji, and grandson of Justice

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, who was one of the founders and presidents of the

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and the Anjuman-e-Islam college of

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. He worked in several administrative positions in the country. Tyabji died at a grand age of 100 in

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on 11 December 2003.

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