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Muslims rulers and Sufi saints
ABDULLA BHAI
Tags: guru, abdul, hargobind, nattha, amritsar, chhevin, gurbilas, patshahi, sikh, bhai, sursingh, akal
'ABDULLA BHAI', Abdul according to some Sikh chroniclers, was a Muslim minstrel who recited heroic balladry at Sikh congregations in the time of Guru Hargobind (1595-1644). Abdul was born in the village of Sursingh, now in Amritsar district of the...
ABDULLA, KHWAJA,
Tags: guru, singh, tegh, bahadur, physician, served, delhi, nanak, prophet, ghulam, abbas, nawab
ABDULLA, KHWAJA, a native of Mani Majra, near present day Chandigarh, was the keeper of the jail at Chandni Chowk kotwali in Delhi, where Guru Tegh Bahadur, Nanak IX, was detained under imperial warrant. He was a pious man and truly reverenced the...
ABDUL RASUL KASHMIRI
Tags: singh, duleep, maharaja, abdul, rasul, paris, deposed, london, punjab, india, egypt, local
ABDUL RASUL KASHMIRI, a native of Srinagar who was in trade at Amritsar as a shawl merchant, was for a time a close confidant of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Sikh King of the Punjab deposed by the British in 1849. Kashmir! acted as the deposed...
ABD US-SAMAD KHAN
Tags: khan, singh, banda, ussamad, lahore, delhi, samad, years, mughals, governor, sikhs, zakariya
ABD USSAMAD KHAN (d. 1737), governor of Lahore from 1713 to 1726, a descendant of the Naqashbandi saint `Abdulla Ahrar, a great grandson of Khwaja Baki of Baghdad, was born at Agra when his father, Khwaja `Abd ul-Karim Ansari, had come out with his...
ABUL FAZL
Tags: fazl, abul, emperor, akbar, learning, guru, singh, oxford, father, 1602, 1551, bundela
ABUL FAZL (1551-1602), principal secretary-cum-minister to Akbar, the Mughal emperor. He was an accomplished man of learning and was the author of two celebrated works, A`ini Akbari and Akbar-nama, the former being a description of Akbar`s...
ADINA BEG KHAN
Tags: adina, sikhs, shah, khan, delhi, jalandhar, lahore, punjab, doab, governor, durrani, afghans
ADINA BEG KHAN (d. 1758), governor of the Punjab for a few months in AD 1758, was, according to Ahwal-i-Dina Beg Khan, an unpublished Persian manuscript, the son of Channu, of the Arain agriculturalist caste, mostly settled in Doaba region of the...
AHMAD SHAH DURRANI
Tags: shah, ahmad, sikhs, singh, lahore, nadir, afghan, delhi, afghanistan, punjab, khan, indian
AHMAD SHAH DURRANI (1722-1772), the first of the Saddozai rulers of Afghanistan and founder of the Durrani empire, belonged to the Saddozai section of the Popalzai clan of the Abdali tribe of Afghans. In the 18th century the Abdalis were to be found...
AHMAD, SHAIKH
Tags: shaikh, ahmad, order, emperor, sufi, india, sirhindi, naqshbandi, hindus, jahangir, figure, pakistan
AHMAD, SHAIKH (1564-1624), celebrated Muslim thinker and theologian of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, was born on 26 May 1564 at Sirhind in present day Patiala district of the Punjab. He received his early education at the hands of his father. Shaikh...
AHMAD YAR KHAN TIWANA
Tags: khan, ahmad, tiwana, maharaja, singh, ranjit, nawab, chief, mankera, horse, tribe, troops
AHMAD YAR KHAN TIWANA (d. 1829), second son of Khan Muhammad Khan, the Tiwana chief of Mittha Tiwana, in Shahpur district, measured swords with Sikhs more than once during Maharaja Ranjit Singh`s time. Ahmad Yar Khan revolted against his father and,...
AKBAR, JALAL UD-DIN MUHAMMAD
Tags: akbar, guru, bhai, punjab, part, religions, delhi, great, sikh, 1605, sahib, book
AKBAR, JALAL UD-DIN MUHAMMAD (1542-1605), third in the line of Mughal emperors of India, was born on 23 November 1542 at Amarkot, in Sindh, while his father, Humayun, was escaping to Persia after he had been ousted by Sher Khan Sur. Akbar was...

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