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Aʿẓamgarh

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, town and bead-quarters of the district of the same name in the province of Uttar Pradesh (India), situated in 26° 5′ N. and 83° 12′ E. on the river Tōns, notorious for its frequent and devastating floods; it was founded in 1076/1665-6 by Aʿẓam Ḵh̲ān I, a scion of an influential Rād̲j̲pūt family, whose head Abhīman Singh, embraced Islām during the reign of Ḏj̲ahāngīr (1014/1605-1037/1627) and was named Dawlat Ḵh̲ān. Population in 1951: 26,632; distric…

al-Fatāwā al-ʿĀlamgīriyya

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, a compendium of Ḥanafī law, in India ranking second only to al-Marg̲h̲īnānī’s Hidāya , compiled by order of Awrangzīb during the years 1075/1664-1083/1672. ¶ The intention was to arrange in systematic order the most authoritative decisions by earlier legists which were scattered in a number of fiḳh books, and thus provide a convenient work of reference. The board in charge of the compilation was presided over by S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Niẓām of Burhānpur (d. 1090/1679), who had four superintendents under him: S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Wad̲j̲īh a…

Ḥusayn S̲h̲āh

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
(1), Sayyid al-Sādāt ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abu ’l-Muẓaffar S̲h̲āḥ Ḥusayn Sulṭān (to quote his full titles) b. al-Sayyid As̲h̲raf al-Ḥusaynī al-Makkī , the founder of the Ḥusayn-S̲h̲āhī dynasty of Bengal, claimed descent from the S̲h̲arīf s of Mecca. His father migrated from Tirmid̲h̲ [ q.v.] and settled in Rādh, a small village in the district of Čāndpūr, where he received his education from the local ḳādī , whose daughter he later married. After completing his education he entered the service of the Ḥabs̲h̲ī Sultan S̲h̲ams al-Dīn Muẓaffar S̲h̲āh ( reg . 897/1491-899/14…

ʿInāyat Allāh Kanbū

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, elder brother of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kańbū, author of ʿAmal-i Ṣāliḥ or S̲h̲āhd̲j̲ahān-nāma , a history of the Mog̲h̲ul emperor S̲h̲āhd̲j̲ahān [ q.v.], was born at Burhānpūr [ q.v.] on 19 Ḏj̲ūmādā I 1017/31 August 1608, though his ancestral home was at Lahore. How and when his parents came to Burhānpūr is not known. His father seems to have died at an early age, when the family returned to Lahore. Himself well-educated, he attended to the education of his orphaned younger brother, who speaks of him in very affectionate terms and calls him his patron. In early life he held an office under the Mog̲h̲ul ¶…

Bulands̲h̲ahr

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
(baran), an ancient town in India situated in 28° 15′ N. and 77° 52′ E. on the main road from Agra and ʿAlīgarh to Meerut. Population (1951) was 34,496. Its old name was Baran (by which it is even now sometimes called but only in the nisba Baranī) given to it by its legendary founder. one Ahībaran. Its antiquity is ¶ established by the discovery of inscribed copperplates of the 5th century A.D. and coins of much older dates. It came to be called Bulands̲h̲ahr (“hightown”) from its elevated position near the bank of the Kālī Naddī, which flows past the to…

Ḥāfiẓ Raḥmat K̲h̲ān

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, b. S̲h̲āh ʿĀlam K̲h̲ān b. Maḥmūd K̲h̲ān b. S̲h̲ihāb al-Dīn known as Kōt́ā Bābā... b. Bharēč K̲h̲ān... b. Ḳays ʿAbd al-Ras̲h̲īd, the legendary ancestor of the Pat́hāns or Afg̲h̲āns, a ḥāfiẓ (memorizer) of the Ḳurʾān, was the head of an important ruling family of Rohilkhand during the 12th/18th century. Some of his ancestors had migrated from S̲h̲ōrābak in the Pis̲h̲in district of West Pakistan to Čač Hazāra where the family ultimately settled. He was born in 1120/1708 at Tor S̲h̲ahāmatpūr. a small little-known village in rōh ( i.e., a hilly country, a term loosely applied to the t…

ʿIwaḍ Wad̲j̲īh

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, a leading scholar and theologian, originally from Ak̲h̲sīkat near Samarḳand [ q.v.], was considered peerless in his day in both rational and traditional sciences. He received his education at Balk̲h̲ in the “dars” of his namesake Mīr ʿIwaḍ Tās̲h̲kentī. After completing his education he returned to his native village where he began teaching. Later he moved to Balk̲h̲ and was still teaching when that town fell to the Mug̲h̲al army under Awrangzīb. He came to India in 1056/1646; he entered the imperial service and was appointed muftī of the army. In 1069/1659,…

Baltistān

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, known to Muslim writers as Tihbat-i Ḵh̲urd or Little Tibet, lying between 34° and 36° N and 75° and 77° E between Gilgit and Ladāk̲h̲, extends some 150 miles on either bank of the Indus, covering an area of 8,522 sq. miles. A mountainous country, it has some of the highest peaks in the world: Godwin Austen (K 2), 28,250 ft., conquered in 1953; Gasherbrum, 26,470 ft., conquered in 1958, and Haramosh, 24,000 ft. Skārdū the chief town, was electrified in 1951. It has an airstrip, a modern hospital and a number of schools. A new bāzār has been recently built. The Baltīs were converted to Islam in …

Bareilly

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
(Barēlī) a district town in the Uttar Pradesh, India, situated in 28° 22′ N. and 79° and 24′ E. stands on a plateau washed by the river Rāmgangā. Population (1951): 194,679. Founded in 944/1537, the town derives its name, according to tradition, from Bās Dēō, a Barhēlā Rād̲j̲pūt by caste. It is popularly known as Bāns Bareilly, partly to distinguish it from Rāē Barēlī, the birth-place of Sayyid Aḥmad Brēlwī [ q.v.], and partly due to the proximity of a bamboo ( bāns ) jungle. During the reign of Akbar, a fort was built here to check the depredations of the Rād̲j̲pūt tribes of Ro…

D̲j̲urʾat

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, tak̲h̲alluṣ of Ḳalandar Bak̲h̲s̲h̲, an Urdū poet of Indian origin, whose real name was Yaḥyā Amān, son of Ḥāfiẓ Amān, one of whose ancestors Rāy Amān, after whom a street in Old Dihlī is still known, suffered at the hands of Nādir S̲h̲āh’s troops during the sack of Dihlī in 1152/1739. The title of Amān or Mān was conferred on the ancestors of D̲j̲urʾat, according to Mīrzā ʿAlī Luṭf ( Guls̲h̲an-i Hind , 73), by the Emperor Akbar. Born at Dihlī, D̲j̲urʾat was brought up at Fayḍābād and later joined the service of Nawwāb Muḥabbat K̲h̲ān of Bareilly, a son of Ḥāfiẓ Raḥmat K̲h̲ān Rohilla [ q.v.] at an e…

Farruk̲h̲ābād

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, name of a town and district in the Uttar Pradesh state of India; situated between the Ganges and the Yamuna (Ḏj̲amnā) between 26° 46′ and 27° 43′ N. and 78° 8′ and 80° 1′ E., with an area of 1,685 sq. miles. Before the establishment of Pakistan the Muslims were in a majority but many of them later migrated to Pakistan. While the district can boast of an ancient past, the town itself is of comparatively recent growth, having been founded in 1126/1714 by Muḥammad K̲h̲ān Bangas̲h̲ (b. c. 1076/1665), an Afghan military adventurer belonging to Maʾū-Ras̲h̲īdābād (now a mere name), a vil…

Fayḍī

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
(later Fayyāḍī ), Abu ’l-Fayḍ b. S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Mubārak al-Mahdawī , Persian poet, commentator of the Ḳurʾān, one of the nine jewels ( naw ratan) of the court of Akbar, younger brother of the historian Abu ’l-Faḍl ʿAllāmī [ q.v.], was of Yamanī extraction; one of his ancestors S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Mūsā had migrated to Sind and settled at Rēl, a small place near Sīwastān (modern Sehwān). His grandfather S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ K̲h̲iḍr came down to Nāgor [ q.v.], where Fayḍī’s father Mubārak was born. In 950/1543-4 S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Mubārak migrated to Āgra, where he married and his first child Fayḍī w…

Ḥiṣār Fīrūza

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, (now simply known as Ḥiṣār; Anglo Indian: Hissār), a citadel town in the Indian Pand̲j̲āb, situated in 29 10′ N. and 75° 44′. E. on the railway from Lahore to Delhi via Bhat́t́ind́a ¶ [ q.v.]. It is the headquarters of the district, of the same name, which lies in a dry sandy plain, known from ancient times as Harīāna. It was founded by Fīrūz S̲h̲āh Tug̲h̲luḳ (reigned 752/1351-790/1388) in 757/1356, after whom it takes its name, on the site of two villages known as Kadās Buzurg and Kadās K̲h̲wurd (cf. S̲h̲ams Sirād̲j̲ ʿAfīf, Taʾrīk̲h̲-i Fīrūz S̲h̲āhī , Calcutta 1891, …

As̲h̲raf ʿAlī

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
b. ʿabd al-ḥaḳḳ al-fārūḳī , was born at Tʾhāna Bhawan (Muẓaffarnagar district, India) on 12 Rabīʿ I, 1280/19 March 1863 and died on 6 Rad̲j̲ab 1362/9 July 1943. He received his education at his home-town and at Deoband [ q.v.]. Leaving Deoband in 1301/1883-4 he started life as a teacher at Cawnpore. The same year he performed the pilgrimage to Mecca where he met Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ī Imdād Allāh al-Hindī al-Muhād̲j̲ir al-Makkī with whom he was already in correspondence. He renewed his bayʿa , contracted in absentia, and formally became his disciple. In 1307/1889-90 he again left for Mecc…

Āzād Bilgrāmī

(540 words)

Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, mīr g̲h̲ulām ʿalī b. nūḥ al-ḥusaynī al-wāsiṭī , b. at Bilgrām on 25 Ṣafar 1116/29 June 1704; he received his early education from Mīr Ṭufayl Muḥammad Bilgrāmī ( Subḥat al-Mard̲j̲ān 99-4) and later studied with Mīr ʿĀbd al-Ḏj̲alīl Bilgrāmī ( Maʾāt̲h̲ir al-Kirām , i, 257-77). In 1151/1738 he performed the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina and learnt ḥadīt̲h̲ from S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Muḥammad Ḥayāt Sindī al-Madanī and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Ṭanṭāwī ( Maʾāt̲h̲ir al-Kirām, i, 162). He returned to India in 1152/1739, and settled at Awrangābād where he died in 1200/1786; he was buried at Ḵ…

Idrākī Bēglārī

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, a native of T́hat́t́a [ q.v.], the old capital of lower Sind, belonged to the Arg̲h̲ūn tribe of Turkomans (cf. ʿAlī S̲h̲ēr Ḳāniʿ, Maḳālāt al-s̲h̲uʿarāʾ , Karachi 1958, 80). No biographical details about him are available beyond the fact that ‘Idrākī’ was his poetical name. As to his nisba Bēglārī, it is not clear whether it was a surname or whether he adopted it on account of his close association with the Bēglār family of lower Sind. His patron, S̲h̲āh Abu ’l-Ḳāsim Sulṭān (d. 1039/1621) b. S̲h̲ah Ḳāsim K̲h̲ān-i Zamān, was well-known for his valour and literary accomplishments. A ¶ nobleman …

ʿImād al-Mulk

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, G̲h̲āzi ’l-Dīn K̲h̲ān , Fīrūz D̲j̲ang (III), was named S̲h̲ihāb al-Dīn after his great-grandfather G̲h̲āzi ’l-Dīn K̲h̲ān, Fīrūz D̲j̲ang I [see s̲h̲ihāb al-dīn , mir ]. His mother was the daughter of the wazīr , Ḳamar al-Dīn K̲h̲ān (d. 1161/1746). He was eight years old when his father, (Mir) Muḥammad ¶ Panāh [ q.v.] died suddenly at Awrangābād in 1165/1752 during his abortive attempt to seize the viceroyalty of the Deccan. On his father’s departure for the Deccan, S̲h̲ihāb al-Dīn had been left behind at Delhi in the care of the minister, Abu ’l-Manṣūr Ṣafdar D̲j̲ang [ q.v.]. He seems to ha…

ʿImād S̲h̲āhī

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, the title of a ruling family, founded by a Hindu convert to Islam, which ruled over Berar [ q.v.] for nearly a century from 896/1490 until 982/1574. The founder of the dynasty, Daryā K̲h̲ān, better known to history by his title Fatḥ Allāh ʿImād al-Mulk, was descended from the Canarese Brahmans of Vid̲j̲yanagar [ q.v.]. He fell as a prisoner of war in 827/1423 into the hands of K̲h̲ān-i D̲j̲ahān, the commander-in-chief of the Bahmani [ q.v.] forces in Berar, who appointed him to his personal bodyguard. Impressed by his talents and ability K̲h̲ān-i D̲j̲ahān quickly promo…

G̲h̲ulām Ḥusayn “Salīm”

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
Zaydpurī, one of the earliest Muslim historians of Bengal, migrated from his home-town Zaydpur, near Bāra Bańkī in Awadh, to English Bāzār or New Mālda (Bengal), also called Ańgrēzābād, and became D́āk Muns̲h̲ī , or Postmaster, there under George Udny (Udney), the Commercial Resident of the East India Company’s factory at that place. Apparently a well-educated man, he undertook to write, at the request of Udny, a history of Bengal, which he named Riyāḍ al-salāṭīn (chronogram of 1207/1787-8, the date of completion). ¶ This work is divided into a muḳaddima and four rawḍās

Gakkhaŕ

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Author(s): Bazmee Ansari, A.S.
, a war-like Muslim tribe, inhabiting mostly the Hazāra district and parts of the districts of Rāwalpindī, Attock and Ḏj̲ehlam (Jhelum) of West Pakistan and that part of the Indian-held territory of Ḏj̲ammū which lies to the west of the Čināb; it is of indigenous origin. Agriculturists by profession, the Gakkhars are considered socially high and stand apart from the local tribes of Rād̲j̲pūt descent who resent their arrogance and racial pride. Many of the religious and social ceremonies observed…
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