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Ahmadi Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...

Muslims, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - a movement within Islam.

Religious figures

Founder

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdi—which is the metaphoric ...

– The founder of the Ahmadiyya movement

Caliphs

*Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din – First Caliph * Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad – Second Caliph *

Mirza Nasir Ahmad Hāfiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad ( ur, ) (16 November 1909 – 9 June 1982) was the third caliph ( ar, خليفة المسيح الثالث, ''khalīfatul masīh al-Thālith''), head of the Ahmadiyya Community. He was elected as the third successor o ...

– Third Caliph * Mirza Tahir Ahmad – Fourth Caliph * Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Fifth Caliph and current leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Companions

Mufti Muhammad Sadiq Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (January 11, 1872 – January 13, 1957) was a companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and a Muslim missionary in the United States. Sadiq converted over seven hundred Americans to Islam directly, and over one thousand indirectly. Hi ...

* A. R. Dard * Abdul Rahim Nayyar *

Maulvi Sher Ali Maulvi Sher Ali Ranjha (24 November 1875 – 13 November 1947) was a prominent Ahmadi scholar and a companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed to be the Promised Messiah and the awaited mahdi. Early life Sher Ali was born to a well off and e ...

Fateh Muhammad Sial Chaudhry Fateh Muhammad Sial (1887–1960) was a companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the first Ahmadi missionary sent from India, under the leadership of Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, the first Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya movement. In 1913, Mirza Basheer- ...

* Shams ud Din Khan * Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din *

Maulana Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; ar, محمد علي‎; 1874 – 13 October 1951) was an Indian people, Indian writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. Biography Ali was born in Murar, Kapurthala State (now in Ludhiana dis ...

* Malik Ghulam Farid *

Mirza Bashir Ahmad Mirza Bashir Ahmad (20 April 1893 – 2 September 1963) was an Ahmadi religious scholar and writer. He was the son of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who was the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement and who claimed to be the Messiah and Mahdi awaited by Muslims. ...

Khwaja Nazir Ahmad Khwaja Nazir Ahmad (Urdu: خواجہ نذیر احمد ; December 2, 1897 – 1970) was an Ahmadiyya writer. After experiments with Hinduism and Christianity he converted back to Islam in 1919 and in 1923, aged 25, became imam of Woking's mosque. ...

Qazi Muhammad Yousaf Qazi Muhammad Yousaf (1 September 1883 – 4 January 1963) was a companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He was regional head Amir of North West Frontier chapter of the Ahmadiyya Community. Early life Qazi Muhammad Yousaf was born September 1, 1883 ...

* Mirza Muhammad Ismail * Sayyid Abdul Latif

Missionaries

Bashir Ahmad Orchard Bashir Ahmad Orchard (April 26, 1920 – July 8, 2002; born James Bryan Orchard) was an English convert to Ahmadiyya Islam and the first European Ahmadi Muslim missionary Life Orchard was born in Torquay and was brought up within a Christian house ...

– first Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Community of European descent *

Abdul Wahab Adam Abdul Wahab Adam (8 December 1938 – 22 June 2014) was an Islamic scholar, Ameer (head) and Missionary-in-Charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ghana. He was a member of Ghana's National Peace Council and the National Reconciliation C ...

– Ameer (Head) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana; member of National Peace Council; member of National Reconciliation Commission

Lahore Ahmadiyya Emirs

Saeed Ahmad Khan Saeed Ahmad Khan (سيد احمد خان in Urdu) (1900–1996) (Emir 1981–1996) was an adherent, and later third Emir, of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam, ( ur, , translit=Aḥmad ...

Asghar Hameed Asghar Hameed (born 1919 in Lahore; died 14 October 2002 in Lahore) was the fourth Emir of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam, ( ur, , translit=Aḥmadiyyah Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām La ...

Maulana Sadr-ud-Din Maulana Sadr-ud-Din ( ur, ; died 14–15 November 1981) became the first missionary of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam Lahore in the Wilmersdorfer Moschee (Berlin Mosque) in 1922. Work * ''Der Koran: Arabisch-Deutsch: Übersetzung, ...

Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha (born 28 February 1945 in British India) is the fifth and current Emir of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. In May 2007, he participated a conference in the Berlin Mosque, organized by the German and Dutch section of Ahmadiyy ...

Royalty

Kings

Beninese

* Kpodégbé Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla – King of the Fon State of Alada; President of the Supreme Council of Kings of Benin *

Akpaki Dagbara II Akpaki Dagbara II was the king of the Bariba State of Paraku, in eastern Benin, until his death in 2004. The throne remained vacant for almost eight years. Two candidates, one designated by the Baparapé chief, the other by chief of Gbégourou, b ...

– King of the Bariba State of Paraku, Benin *

Egba Kotan II Egba Kotan II is the king of the Yoruba State of Dassa in central Benin. The king rose to the throne on March 3, 2002. See also *List of rulers of the Yoruba state of Dassa *List of current constituent African monarchs This is a list of reigni ...

– King of the Yoruba State of Dassa, Benin *

Orou Igbo Akambi Orou Igbo Akambi is the king of Toui, in central Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to ...

– King of Toui, Benin

Other nationalities

* Musendiku Buraimoh Adeniji Adele II – King of Lagos, Nigeria * Mumuni Koray – Ruler of Wa, Ghana

Other royalty

* Khalil Gamanga – Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone * Kenawa Gamanga – Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone

Artists

Musicians

Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America. Although Lateef's main instruments ...

– American Ahmadi spokesperson; Jazz multiinstrumentalist; Grammy Award winner *

Ahmad Jamal Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. Biography Early life Jamal was born Fr ...

– American jazz pianist *

Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...

– American jazz drummer *

Rudy Powell Rudy Powell (later Musheed Karweem) (October 28, 1907 – October 30, 1976) was an American jazz reed player. Born in New York City, United States, Powell learned piano and violin while young and then clarinet and saxophone. In the late 1920s, he ...

– American jazz reed player *

Sahib Shihab Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory; June 23, 1925 – October 24, 1989) was an American jazz and hard bop saxophonist (baritone, alto, and soprano) and flautist. He variously worked with Luther Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Tad ...

– American jazz Saxophonist *

Dakota Staton Dakota Staton (June 3, 1930 – April 10, 2007) was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No. 4 hit "The Late, Late Show". She was also known by the Muslim name Aliyah Rabia for a period due to her conversion to ...

– American jazz vocalist * McCoy Tyner – American jazz pianist *

Sadik Hakim Sadik Hakim (born Forrest Argonne Thornton; July 15, 1919 – June 20, 1983) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Early life Forrest Argonne Thornton was born on July 15, 1919 in Duluth, Minnesota. The name Argonne came from the World War ...

– American jazz pianist * Abbey Lincoln – American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress *

Talib Dawud Talib Ahmad Dawood (formerly Alfonso Nelson Rainey, born January 26, 1923, on Antigua; died 9 July 1999, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter. Career Dawud came from Antigua and Barbuda, taking lessons from his father, a trumpeter who ...

– Anitguan-born American jazz Trumpeter * Ahmed Abdul-Malik – American jazz double bassist * Idrees Sulieman – American jazz Trumpeter

Writers

Aziz Kashmiri Abdul Aziz Kashmiri (born 10 June 1919) is a Kashmiri journalist. Kashmiri was born in Srinigar. After working as a secular journalist he founded the Urdu-language weekly, '' Roshni'', in Srinagar, Kashmir in 1943, which became a daily newspaper ...

– Kashmiri journalist * Wage Rudolf Supratman – Indonesian National Hero and songwriter; wrote the national anthem of Indonesia, "Indonesian Raya" * Muhammad Fazal Khan Changwi – translator of works by

Ibn Arabi Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , 'Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influenti ...

Qalandar Momand Sahibzada Habib-ur-Rahman Qalandar Momand (September 1, 1930 - February 4, 2003) was a well-known Pashto poet, short story writer, journalist and linguist. Books Short stories *''Gajre'' Poetry *''Sabāʼūn'' *''Raṇāʼī'' Essays *''Daryāb ...

– Pakistani poet, writer, journalist, critic, academician, lexicographer. Recipient of Pakistan's Pride of Performance civil award, the National Award for Democracy and Sitara-e-Imtiaz *

Obaidullah Aleem Obaidullah Aleem ( ur, , 12 June 1939 – 18 May 2003) was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language. Life Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, India. His father moved to Sialkot following Partition. Aleem was from a Kashmiri Butt family and was an A ...

– Urdu poet * Babatunde Jose – Nigerian journalist * Hadayatullah Hübsch – German writer and journalist * Khola Maryam Hübsch – German writer and journalist, daughter of Hadayatullah *

Qasim Rashid Qasim Rashid (born July 21, 1982) is a Pakistani-born American author, activist, and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he is currently running for the Democratic nomination for Illinois's 11th congressi ...

– American writer *

Sabir Zafar Sabir may refer to: People Peoples and language *Sabir people, 5th–7th century nomadic people who lived in the north of the Caucasus * Sabir language, or Mediterranean Lingua Franca, a pidgin language People with the name * Salimallah Sabir (bor ...

– Pakistani songwriter, lyricist and poet. *

Qamar Ajnalvi Qamar Ajnalvi (قمر اجنالوی), born Abdus Sattar (July 1919 – 30 May 1993), was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in the Urdu language.

– Pakistani novelist

Actors

Mahershala Ali Mahershala Ali (; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore, February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. ''Time'' magazine named him one of th ...

– American actor, first Muslim actor to win an Oscar

Politicians

Ghanaians

* Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu – member of the Council of State and former Minister for Defence * Alhaji Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu – member of Pan-African Parliament and former Minister for Interior *

Kobina Tahir Hammond Kobina Tahir Hammond (born June 16, 1960) is a Ghanaian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and the 8th Parliament of the 4th Ghanaian Republi ...

– Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Ashanti Region * Ameen Salifu – Member of Parliament for Wa East, Upper West Region * Alhaji Issifu Ali – former co-chairman of the National Democratic Congress * Musheibu Mohammed Alfa – Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Innovation *

Mahmud Khalid Mahmud Khalid is a Ghanaian politician and a former Minister of State. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress (Ghana) of Ghana. He served briefly as the Minister for the Upper West Region in the Mills government. While he was in ...

– former Minister of State for Upper West Region * Alhaji Mumuni Abudu Seidu – former Minister of State without portfolio; former Member of Parliament, Wa Central, Upper West Region * Alhaji Mogtari Sahanun – former Ghana ambassador to Burkina Faso; former Minister of State for Upper West Region

Nigerians

Alhaji Abdul Azeez Kolawole Adeyemo Abdul Azeez Kolawole Adeyemo (June 14, 1941 – March 12, 2002), popularly known as 'Alhaji how are you', was a Nigerian and prominent Yoruba politician. He was born in Ado-Ekiti the Ekiti State capital to Sir. Rufai Adeyemo & Princess Adebolarin A ...

– Member of Parliament, front-line member of Action Group political party, Ondo State Parliamentary Co-ordinator * Alhaji Jibril Martin – president of the Nigerian Youth Movement; cofounder and chairman of the Hajj Pilgrims’ Board of Nigeria's western region

Pakistanis

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan ( ur, ‎; 6 February 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Pakistani jurist and diplomat who served as the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan. After serving as foreign minister he continued his internation ...

– President of the UN General Assembly, First Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the International Court of Justice

United Kingdom

Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon Tariq Mahmood Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon (born 3 April 1968), is a British-Pakistani businessman and a Conservative life peer. He was appointed Minister of State for the Commonwealth and United Nations, and later for South Asia; then Cen ...

– Member of the House of Lords, UK, Minister for the Commonwealth and the United Nations at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. * Iftikhar A. Ayaz – Tuvaluan consular official, UK *

Imran Ahmad Khan Imran Nasir Ahmad Khan (born 6 September 1973) is a British former politician and convicted sex offender who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield from the 2019 general election until 2022. Elected as a Conservative, Ahmad Khan ha ...

–

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(MP) for

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Other nationalities

* Farimang Mamadi Singateh – second and last Governor General of The Gambia *

Sahibzada Abdul Latif Sayyid Abdul Latif (1853 – July 14, 1903) or Sahibzada Abdul Latif among the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, was the Royal Advisor to Abdur Rahman Khan and Habibullah Khan, the father and son kings of Afghanistan between the late 19th century a ...

– Afghan Ahmadi Muslim martyr; king Abdur Rahman Khan's advisor; government representative for the Durand Line * Amir Abedi – first African mayor of Dar es Salam, Tanzania *

Barakat Ahmad Barakat Ahmad (died 1988) was a scholar and Indian diplomat. He had a doctorate in Arab history from the American University of Beirut and a doctorate in literature from the University of Tehran.Leon Nemoy, ''Barakat Ahmad's "Muhammad and the Jews" ...

– Indian diplomat * Muhammad Fiaz – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada

International bodies

– President of the UN General Assembly, first Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the International Court of Justice * M M Ahmad – former executive director and vice president of the

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Military

* Air Marshal

Zafar Chaudhry Zafar Ahmad Chaudhry (Urdu: ظفر احمد چودھری; b. 19 August 1926 – 17 December 2019), , was a Pakistani human rights activist and an airline executive who served as the first Chief of Air Staff of Pakistan Air Force, appointed in ...

– first Chief of Air Staff and a three-star general of the Pakistan Air Force *

Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

Akhtar Hussain Malik Akhtar ( fa, links=no, ) means "star" in Persian. It is a unisex name. It is also a common surname. A variant spelling is Akhter. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Given name Akhtar * Akhtar Aly Kureshy Pakistani lawyer a ...

– lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army *

Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

Iftikhar Janjua Major General Iftikhar Khan Janjua ( ur, ) (died December 9, 1971) of the Pakistan Army is one of the most senior Pakistani officers to have been killed in action. He is known in Pakistan as the hero of Rann of Kutch, as he was a brigadier in c ...

Shaheed – major general of the Pakistan Army; 1965 war hero, killed in the 1971 war *

Abdul Ali Malik Abdul Ali Malik was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army and an infantry officer in the Pakistan Army from Nineteenth Battalion of Punjab Regiment who earned distinction of leading the combat infantry formations to mechanized w ...

– Pakistani war hero of the Chawinda, 1965 Indo-Pakistan war *

Abdullah Saeed Abdullah Saeed (born May 18, 1984) is a Pakistani-American producer, composer, journalist, host, writer, and comic. He produced and hosted several TV shows and documentaries for Vice Media, Vice. Personal life Saeed was born in New Hampshire to ...

– Commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, Chief Martial Law Administrator for Baluchistan, Pakistan

Business and economics

* M M Ahmad – former executive director and vice president of the World Bank * Faysal Sohail – American venture capitalist * Atif Mian – Top 25 Economist of the world. Prime Minister Imran Khan selected Mian as one of Pakistan's economists, he reached international notability in 2018 after his forced removal because he is an Ahmadi Muslim. The

International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...

(IMF) identified Mian as one of twenty-five economists it expects to shape the world's thinking about the global economy in the future. *

Amjad Khan Chowdhury Amjad Khan Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi Army officer and founder of Bangladesh conglomerate PRAN-RFL Group. Early life and family Chowdhury was born on 10 November 1937 to Ali Qasim Khan Chowdhury and Amatur Rahman. He belongs to the branch of the ...

– Founder of

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Scientists

*Professor

Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...

– First Pakistani and first Ahmadi Muslim recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics *

Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz, Ph.D. (Urdu: ; June 12, 1937— July 9, 1992), was a Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for his role in discovering new isotopes that expanded the neutron-deficient side of the atomic chart. Some of the isotope ...

– Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for his role in discovering new isotopes *

Mojib Latif Mojib Latif (born 29 September 1954) is a German meteorologist and oceanographer of Pakistani descent. Latif graduated with a Diplom in meteorology in 1983. He took a position as scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in 1985. ...

– German meteorologist and oceanographer of Pakistani descent * Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin – Indian astronomer, professor at Osmania University, Hydrabad, India *

Clement Lindley Wragge Clement Lindley Wragge (18 September 185210 December 1922) was a meteorologist born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, but moved to Oakamoor, Staffordshire as a child. He set up the Wragge Museum in Stafford following a trip around the wor ...

– New Zealander meteorologist *

Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels (born 28 April 1901 in Prague - died 7 February 1980 in Neckargemünd, Heidelberg, Germany) was a prominent Muslim of Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country i ...

– Austrian German Orientalist and anthropologist

Sportspersons

Abdul Jeelani Abdul Qadir Jeelani (born Gary Cole; February 10, 1954 – August 3, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. Born in Bells, Tennessee, he was a 6'8" and 210 lb small forward and played college basketball at the University of Wis ...

– American professional basketball player * Adnan Virk – Canadian sports anchor * Waseem Ahmed - Pakistani field hockey player and ex-captain of Pakistan hockey team

Others

* Sitara Brooj Akbar – World's youngest O'Levels awardee and IELTS candidate. * A. George Baker – American

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clergyman who converted to Islam *

Asad Shah Asad ( ar, أسد), sometimes written as Assad, is an Arabic male given name literally meaning " lion". It is used in nicknames such as ''Asad Allāh'', one of the by-names for Ali ibn Abi Talib. People Among prominent people named ''Asad'', ...

– British murder victim of a religiously-motivated attack * Nazhat Shameem – Former High Court Judge, Fiji *

Shaista Shameem Shaista Shameem, a Fijian lawyer, the director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission (FHRC) from 2002 to 2007, and its director and chairperson from 2007 to 2009. A graduate of the University of the South Pacific, she holds a PhD in Sociology from ...

– Indo-Fijian lawyer; former director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission

References

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