Usmani, Othmani or Uthmani is a large Muslim community (
Urdu
Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...
: عثمانی), found mainly in South Asia.
Notable people
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Fazlur Rahman Usmani
Fazlur Rahmān Usmānī (1831 – 15 June 1907) was an Indian Muslim scholar and poet who co-founded the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was father of the scholars, Aziz-ur-Rahman Usmani and Shabbir Ahmad Usmani. His grandson Atiqur Rahman Usmani was ...
, Indian Muslim scholar
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Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani
Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani (also written as Azizur Rahman Usmani; died 1928) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as first Head Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband. He is best known for his ''Fatawa Darul Uloom Deoband''. His brother was Shabbir Ah ...
, Indian Muslim scholar
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Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (11 October 188713 December 1949) was an Islamic scholar and an activist of the Pakistan Movement, who served as the of Pakistan in 1949.
He was the first to demand that Pakistan become an Islamic state. He was a religio ...
, Pakistani Muslim scholar
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Atiqur Rahman Usmani
Atīqur Rahmān Usmānī (1901 – 12 May 1984) was an Indian Muslim scholar and an activist of Indian independence movement who co-founded Nadwatul Musannifeen and the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat.
Usmānī was an alumnus of the Darul ...
, Indian Muslim scholar
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Rafi Usmani
Rafi Usmani (21 July 1936 – 18 November 2022) was the Grand Mufti of Pakistan who served as the third president of Darul Uloom Karachi. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband, University of the Punjab and the Darul Uloom Karachi. He authore ...
, Pakistani Muslim scholar
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Taqi Usmani
Muhammad Taqi Usmani (born 3 October 1943) SI, OI, is a Pakistani Islamic jurist and leading scholar in the fields of Qur'an, Hadith, Islamic law, Islamic economics, and comparative religion. He was a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology ...
, Pakistani Muslim scholar
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M. A. G. Osmani
Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani (1 September 1918 – 16 February 1984) was a Bangladeshi Officer (armed forces), military officer, revolutionary and politician. His military career spanned three decades, beginning with his service in the Briti ...
, Bengali military leader
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Sumayya Usmani, Pakistani-born Scottish food writer
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Vjosa Osmani
Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu (born 17 May 1982) is a Kosovan jurist and politician serving as the sixth president of Kosovo since April 2021, having previously served as acting president from November 2020 to March 2021. She also served as Speaker of the ...
, fifth President of Kosovo
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Maskoor Usmani
Maskoor Ahmad Usmani is an Indian politician based in Darbhanga, Bihar. Usmani was the president of the Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union and is a national leader of the Indian National Congress. He holds a dentistry degree from Aligarh ...
, Indian politician
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Osmany Cienfuegos
Osmany Cienfuegos Gorriarán (4 February 1931 – 17 May 2025) was a Cuban politician and older brother of Camilo Cienfuegos. He served in various roles in the Cuban government.
Cienfuegos was the only one of three brothers who attended the Uni ...
, Cuban politician
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Osmani García, Cuban rapper
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Osmany Juantorena
Osmany Juantorena Portuondo (born 12 August 1985) is a Cuban-born Italian professional volleyball player, a member of Cuba national volleyball team in 2003–2006 and current member of Italian club Modena Volley. Juantorena was bronze medalist of ...
, Cuban-Italian volleyball player
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Osmani Urrutia
Osmani Urrutia Ramírez (also spelled ''Osmany'') (born June 29, 1976) is a Cuban baseball player. He plays right field for the Las Tunas Magos of the Cuban National Series and for the Cuba national baseball team.
Career in Cuba
Playing for La ...
, Cuban baseball player
See also
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Abbasi (disambiguation)
Abbasi (, ) may refer to:
* Abbasid Caliphate, the third Islamic caliphate after the Prophet Muhammad
* Abbasi (currency), gold and silver coins issued by Abbas I of Persia
* Abbasi (surname), a Muslim surname, including a list of people with the ...
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Alavi
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Behna
The Behna are a Muslim community found in North India
North India is a geographical region, loosely defined as a cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans (speakin ...
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Farooqi
Farooqui (); also transliterated as Farooqi, Faruki or Al Farooqui), is a given name or surname of Arabic origin.
Notable people with the surname include:
* Umar, second Caliph of Islam, associate of Muhammad
* Hafsa bint Umar, wife of Muhammad
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Gardezi Gardezi (also spelled Gardezy or Gardizi) refers to someone whose origin can be traced back to the city of Gardez in Afghanistan.
There have been a few known Gerdezi families from Gardez who migrated to different parts of Pakistan. Their descendan ...
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Hashemi Al-Hashimi, also transliterated Al-Hashemi (), Hashemi, Hashimi, or Hashmi () is an Arabic and Persian surname.[Al-Hashimi ...]
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Osmany Osmany is both a masculine given name, occurring especially in Cuba, and a surname, occurring in South Asia. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* (born 1963), Cuban racing cyclist
* Osmany Cienfuegos (1931–2025), Cuban politician ...
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Quraishi
Qureshi is a surname, is driven from Arabic words () when writing in English it has various spelling formation such as Quraish Qurayš, Qureshi/ Quraishi/Qurashi is often spelled “Qurashi” (القرشي) in Arabic, and it refers to someone ...
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Siddiqui
Siddiqui () are a Muslim community, found mainly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and in communities in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa.
It is also an Islamic-based common name in reference to the 1st Rashidun Caliph Abu Bakr ...
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Surnames
Usmani family