|
Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri
Abu Salmān Shahjahānpūri (30 January 1940 – 2 February 2021; ur, ) was a Pakistani scholar, researcher and historian. He was regarded as an authority in the historical and political movements of the Indian subcontinent. He was an alumnus of Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi, University of Karachi and the University of Sindh. He wrote more than 150 books including ''Ifādat-e-Azād'' and ''Maulānā ʻUbaidullāh Sindhī ke inqilābī manṣūbe''. Life and career Abu Salmān Shahjahānpūri was born Tasadduq Hussain Khan on 30 January 1940 in Shahjahanpur. He was schooled at Madrasa Saeedia in Shahjahanpur and the Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi in Moradabad. Aged 10, he migrated to Pakistan in 1950. He received a BA and an MA degree from the University of Karachi and completed his doctoral studies at the University of Sindh. The subject of his doctoral study was to compile and study ''Khānwada-e-Waliullāhi'' of Syed Ahmad Khan. Shahjahānpūri served as a Professor at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahjahanpur
Shahjahanpur () is a municipal corporation, town and district headquarters of Shahjahanpur District in Uttar Pradesh, India. The city is between Bareilly and Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. History Shahjahanpur was established by Dilir Khan and Bahadar Khan, sons of Dariya Khan, a soldier in army of the Mughal emperor Jahangir. Dariya Khan was originally from Kandahar, in modern-day Afghanistan. Both Dilir Khan and Bahadar Khan were dignitaries in the regime of Shah Jahan. Pleased with the services of Dilir Khan, Shah Jahan gave him 17 villages with the permission to construct a fort in 1647, following the suppression of the rebellious Katheria Rajputs. The area was then settled by Afghans, brought by Bahadar Khan following one of his campaigns. On 9 August 1925, the Indian freedom fighters Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Chandrashekhar Azad and Rajendra Lahiri conducted a robbery of government funds near Kakori railway station. Both Bismil and Khan were bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al- Hussaini Azad (; 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Following India's independence, he became the First Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; the word Maulana is an honorific meaning 'Our Master' and he had adopted ''Azad'' (''Free'') as his pen name. His contribution to establishing the education foundation in India is recognised by celebrating his birthday as National Education Day across India. As a young man, Azad composed poetry in Urdu, as well as treatises on religion and philosophy. He rose to prominence through his work as a journalist, publishing works critical of the British Raj and espousing the causes of Indian nationalism. Azad became the leader of the Khilafat Movement, during which he came into close contact with the Indian leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. Many of the OCLC member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database. The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. , WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset (mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. History OCLC was founded in 1967 under the leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hussain Ahmad Madani
Hussain Ahmad Madani (6 October 1879 – 5 December 1957) was an Indian Islamic scholar, serving as the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was among the first recipients of the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1954.The rise and fall of the Deoband movement The Nation (newspaper), Published 27 June 2015, Retrieved 19 July 2017 Madani played a key role in cementing the Congress-Khilafat Pact in the 1920s and "Through a series of lectures and pamphlets during the 1920s and 1930s, Madani prepared the ground for the cooperation of the Indian Ulama with the Indian National Congress." His work '' Muttahida Qaumiyat Aur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Jang
The ''Daily Jang'' ( ur, ) is an Urdu newspaper headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. It is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan in continuous publication since its foundation in 1939, first published during World War II, hence the name (Jang) translating to "war" in Urdu. Its current group chief executive and editor-in-chief is Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. Past editors and contributors have included Mahmood Shaam, Nazir Naji and Shafi Aqeel. Committee to Protect Journalists website, December 15, 1998. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Its current list of columnists includes Saleem Safi, Hassan Nisar, Ghazi Salahuddin, Wajahat Masood, Hafeezullah Niazi, Irshad Bhatti, Mazhar Barlas, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Ansar Abbasi, Anwar Ghazi, Ali Moeen Nawazish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Pakistan
The ''Daily Pakistan'' ( ur, ) is a daily newspaper in Pakistan, published both in Urdu language and in English. Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami is its chief editor.Shami deplores NAB move to seek details about ads Dawn (newspaper), Published 29 July 2019, Retrieved 5 June 2020 ''Daily Pakistan'' is currently published from , , , and |
Ghulam Rasool Mehr
Ghulam Rasool Mehr (13 April 1895 – 16 November 1971) (غلام رسول مہر) was a Pakistani Muslim scholar and political activist born in Phoolpur, a village in the district of Jalandhar, British India. Early life Mehr went to primary school in Khambra, then to Mission High School in Jalandhar City. He then enrolled at Islamia College (Lahore), where he developed a fondness for the city and its culture. He felt that while Delhi and Lucknow were steeped deep in Eastern culture, Lahore, was a happy blend of the East and the West, owing to its closer affiliation to the British Raj. Career Mehr was deeply involved in the developments on the Indian political front. The Indian Muslims, apart from their participation in the Pakistan Movement, were agitated at what was happening, at that time, in the Muslim world. Young Maulana Mehr, who had just completed his education and who had a passion to serve the cause of freedom and the Muslim 'millat' (nation), began writing in the Dai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agha Shorish Kashmiri
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975; ) was a Pakistani scholar, writer, debater, and a leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement in the British Raj, as well as the chief editor of the weekly ''Chattan'' magazine in Pakistan. Early life and career Kashmiri started his political career in 1935 when he delivered a historical speech at the Shaheed Ganj Mosque conference when Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was serving as the President of Ahrar Party, India. He was a student of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan but was disappointed by the violence at the Shaheed Ganj Mosque in 1935. Kashmiri was impressed by Chaudhry Afzal Haq as well, who was a political leader of the Indian sub-continent, so he joined All-India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and the struggle for Ahrar Party. Kashmiri was also impressed by his religious and political teacher (teacher meaning ''murshad'' in the Urdu language) Ameer-e-Shariyyat Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari. Kashmiri was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qasba Aligarh Massacre
The Qasba–Aligarh massacre was an ethnic clash that erupted when recently settled armed tribal Pashtuns from KPK, Pakistan and Afghanistan attacked densely populated civilized locals in Qasba Colony, Aligarh Colony and Sector 1-D of Orangi in Karachi in the early hours of the morning on 14 December 1986. According to official reports, around 49 people were killed (unofficial reports are significantly higher at 400) and several hundred were injured in what was perceived as a "revenge killing" by newly settled armed Pashtuns following an unsuccessful raid on a Pashtun heroin processing and distribution center in Sohrab Goth by the security forces. Most of the residents of the two colonies happened to be Muhajirs like Biharis who had been freshly repatriated from Bangladesh. The locality is situated within limits of Karachi city and consists of middle class Muhajir families. During planned development of the city in the 1960s and 70s it was constructed by the governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madina (Bijnor)
''Akhbar-e-Madina'' ( ur, اخبار مدینه), or ''Madina'' for short, was an Urdu-language biweekly newspaper published in Bijnor, IndiaRama Rao, T. V., and G. D. Binani. India at a Glance; A Comprehensive Reference Book on India'. Calcutta: Orient Longmans, 1954. p. 797 between 1912 and 1975. The newspaper first appeared in 1912.Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Bijnor'. Government of Uttar Pradesh. p. 266 It was founded by Maulvi Majeed Hasan,Indian Book Chronicle', Vol. 18–21. Vivek Trust, 1993. p. 12 and its first editor was Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi.India (Republic), and Jagadish Nataranjan. Report'. Delhi: Manager of Publications], 1954. p. 205 It had its own printing press, Madina Press. It was one of the most prominent Muslim newspapers in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, United Provinces.Dhulipala, Venkat. Rallying Around the Qaum: The Muslims of the United Provinces and the Movement for Pakistan'. .l. Proquest, Umi Dissertatio, 2011. pp. 226-227 It won accept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadwatul Musannifeen
Nadwatul Musannifeen ( en, Council of Writers) was an academic research institution and publishing house in Delhi. The institution was co-founded by scholars including Atiqur Rahman Usmani, Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi, Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi and Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi in 1938. History Nadwatul Musannifeen was established by Atiqur Rahman Usmani, Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi, Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi and Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi in 1938. Originally set up in Karol Bagh, the institution suffered losses during 1947 riots. It was moved to nearby Jama Masjid, Delhi post the Partition of India by Atiqur Rahman Usmani. The institution has published books on issues related to religion, history, culture and theology. The institution published ''Burhan'', a magazine that is regarded as the best Islamiyat magazine after the ''Al-Ma'ārif'' of Shibli Academy. Associated scholars * Muhammad Taqi Amini * Zayn al-Abidin Sajjad Meerthi Publications The Nadwatul Musannifeen has published more than 250 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shibli Academy
Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy is a research academy based in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. History Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy was conceived by Maulana Shibli Nomani and established by his disciples Hamiduddin Farahi Hamiduddin Farahi (18 November 1863 – 11 November 1930) was an Indian Islamic scholar known for his work on the concept of ''nazm'', or coherence, in the Quran. He was instrumental in producing scholarly work on the theory that the vers ..., Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Maulana Syed Masood Ali, Mawlana Abdus Salam Nadwi and Mawlana Shibli Mutakallim Nadwi on 21 November 1914, three days after his death with the following objectives: * To nurture and sustain a body of scholarly authors. * To provide a congenial environment for scholars to create, compile and translate literary works of high scholastic and historical value. * To undertake printing and publication of the literary works of the Academy. It aimed at effectively meeting increasing intellec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
