The ancestors of present-day
Memons
The Memon are a Muslim community in Gujarat India, and Sindh, Pakistan, the majority of whom follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. They are divided into different groups based on their origins: Memons (Kathiawar), Kathiawari Memons, Kutchi Me ...
who settled a few centuries ago in various parts of the districts of India, particularly
Kathiawar
Kathiawar (), also known as Saurashtra, is a peninsula in the south-western Gujarat state in India, bordering the Arabian Sea and covering about . It is bounded by the Kutch district in the north, the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest, and by the ...
(now
Saurashtra), commonly identified as simply Memons.
The language of Kathiawadi Memons is
Memon
Memon may refer to:
Ethnic group and language
* Memon people, Sunni Muslim community in Gujarat, India and Sindh, Pakistan
** Memons (Kathiawar)
** Kutchi Memon, from Kutch, Gujarat
*** Kutchi Memons in Bombay
** Bantva Memons, from Bantva, Gujara ...
, sometimes called ''Memoni''.
The
South African Memon community is largely descended from Memons who emigrated from Kathiawar in the early twentieth century.
See also
*
Memon (disambiguation)
References
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Muslim communities of Gujarat