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Ghulam Ali Allana

Birth:1903

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Pakistani economist. Authored many books.

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Ghulam Ali Azad Bilgrami

Birth:1703

Death:1786

An Urdu poet and historian. He was known as 'Hassan of India' (Hassan-e-Hind), since he like Hasan ibn Sabit, wrote some powerful Arabic Panegyrics in honour of the Prophet , peace be upon him, .

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Googoosh

Birth:1950

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Iranian singer. Googoosh is a well known Iranian singer and is a national heroin. She is the most famous Iranian singer of the 20th century, a living icon that touches the heartstrings of her fans and wins the hearts with classic ballads of lost love ...

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Galib Dede

Birth:1757

Death:1799

The last great classical poet of the Ottoman literature. Galib (or Ghalib) was the pseudonym of Muhammad Es'ad. His masterpiece was Husn-wa-Ishq. He also had a Divan to his credit that illustrated his preoccupation with mystical religious themes.

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Ghayasuddin Balban

Birth:1206

Death:1286

King of Delhi. Balban was the son-in-law of Sultan Altimish. After the death of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahamud in 1266, Balban came to the throne and ruled very firmly for more than twenty years

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Ghayasuddin Muhammad Ghori

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Death:1203

He succeeded to the throne of Ghor and Ghazni in 1157 and conferred the Government of Ghazni on his brother Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori (surnamed Moizuddin Muhammad) who conquered in 1192 a greater part of India in the name of his brother and thus became the founder of ...

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Ghazan Khan

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Death:1304

King of Iran. Fourth in descent from Halaku Khan, succeeded to the throne in 1295. He was second descendant of Changez Khan to accept the religion of Islam along with his one hundred thousand followers. After embracing Islam he took the title of Sultan Muhammad. His ...

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Ghazi Shamsur Rahman

Birth:1921

Death:1998

Bangladesh's eminent jurist and author. Shamsur held high position in Judiciary and chaired Court, institute and Press Council. A prolific writer and a popular radio and television personality, he published some 144 books on varied subjects. Shamsur Rahman received Bangla Academy Award and Ekushey Padak, the ...

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Ghaziuddin Haider

Birth:1769

Death:1827

The eldest son of Nawab Saadat Ali Khan who came to the throne of Awadh in 1814. He with the concurrence of the British was crowned in 1819 and took the title of king Ghaziuddin Haider. The day he was crowned, pearls were scattered over the heads ...

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Ghiyasuddin Kard II Malik

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Death:1381

Eight and the last king of the Kurd dynasty. He succeeded his father in 1370 and reigned for twelve years over Harat, Ghor and Nishapur. In 1381 Taimur conquered Harat and had him assassinated. This dynasty lasted for about one hundred and twenty years.

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Ghiyasuddin Toghlaq

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Death:1325

Also known as Ghazi Malik. Ghiyasuddin ascended the throne of Delhi in 1321 and was the founder of the Tughlaq dynasty in India. He was crushed to death by the fall of a temporary structure built by his son Muhammad Tughlaq in order to welcome him ...

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Ghulam Ahmad

Birth:1922

Death:1998

India's cricketer. Ghulam Ahmad was the outstanding off-spinner for a decade after the second world war. His easy approach to the crease was a 'symphony in motion'. From 1951 to 1957 he held the record for the greatest number of balls bowled in an innings. He was ...

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Ghulam Ishaq Khan

Birth:1915

Death:2006

President of Pakistan who sacked two governments. An influential public servant with his starched reputation, Ghulam Ishaq Khan led Pakistan from 1988 to 1993 and dismissed two governments on charges of corruption. He was a seasoned bureaucrat who rose through the ranks from humble beginning without patronage ...

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Ghulam Nabi Fai

Birth:1950

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Executive director of the Washington based Kashmir American Council and chief spokesman of the Kashmiris outside India.

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Ghulam Qadir Khan Rohila

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Death:1789

The grandson of Najibuddaula, the Rohila chief, who had invited Ahmad Shah Abdali to come to India and punish the Marhathas which he did in 1761 at the third battle of Panipat. The Marathas along with the help of Shah Alam took revenge of this defeat ...

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Ghulam Rasul Mihr

Birth:1893

Death:1971

Journalist and writer. A journalist, writer and poet Maulana Mihr joined the newspaper; Zamindar in 1922, later resigned and started his own paper Inqlab in 1927. Maulana Mihr wrote Ghalib in 1936, a biography of Urdu poet Ghalib. His interest in India's freedom movement is revealed when he ...

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Glasse Cyril

Birth:1944

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The author of the Concise encyclopaedia of Islam. Cyril travelled all over the Islamic world and published A Guide to Saudi Arabia in 1981 and the Pilgrims Guide to Makkah. He also translated Margerit vons Brechen's Study of Islamic Jerusalem. Glasse Cyril was born in America, ...

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Gul Muhammad

Birth:1961

Death:1997

The world's shortest man. Gul Muhammad, 57.15-cm frame, proclaimed by The Guinness Book of Records, in Delhi, India.

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Germanus Gyula

Birth:1884

Death:1980

A Hungarian writer who accepted Islam and was the only European member of the Academics of sciences in Cairo, Baghdad and Damascus. While a student Gyula became interested in the Turkish period of Hungarian history, learned Turkish in Constantinople, learned Arabic under professor Ignac Goldziher, ...

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Birth:1947

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A leader of Hizb-i-Islami, Afghanistan. Gulbuddin was one of the seven mujaheddin factions that fought the Russian occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989 and was once the pivotal figure in American's proxy war against the Russians. At one point receiving 90 per cent of military aid, he ...

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Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud

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Death:1033

A celebrated martyr commonly known as Ghazi Mian whose tomb at Bahriach in U P, India, is even now a place venerated by the Muslims. His mother was Mahmud Ghazni's sister.

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Gama Pahelvan

Birth:1882

Death:1960

The world famous wrestler. Gama defeated Zbyszko of Poland in World Wrestling Championship at England in 1910 in a matter of few seconds and won the world championship. In thirty years he fought about 1,200 bouts and was never defeated. Gama, Rustam-e-Zaman, real name was Ghulam Muhammad ...

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Ghazi I

Birth:1912

Death:1939

The only son of Faisal I, Ghazi was born in Hijaz in 1912 after three sisters. He was left to the care of his grandfather while his father was busy in his campaigns and travels. Thus he grew as shy inexperienced young man which had alot ...

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Ghulam Ahmad Parwez

Birth:1903

Death:1985

The founder of the Tolu-e-Islam movement, spreading pristine teaching of Islam, in Pakistan. Ghulam Ahmad Parwez, formerly in the Civil Service of India and later Pakistan, started publishing Tolu-e-islam with the primary object to enlighten people that, according to the Qur'an, the ideology and not ...

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Ghayasuddin Siddiqui

Birth:1939

Death:

British Muslim activist. Dr Siddiqi is involved in lobbying Muslim causes in the UK, as leader of the informal Muslim Parliament, a conscious-raising platform, since 1992. Dr Siddiqui was born in Delhi, and migrated to Pakistan and now residing in the UK since 1964.

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Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon

Birth:1936

Death:2015

Indian born Curry King of Britain. An entrepreneur, Sir Gulam arrived in Britain with comparatively little. Developed a highly successful business, unashamedly enjoyed the social, political and particularly royal contacts that his success brought, and ended up, finally, in the House of Lords. Sir Gulam's ...

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Gailan Mahmood Ramiz

Birth:1933

Death:2004

Iraq's political scientist. Ramiz, energetic, powerful and intelligent analyst, and a regular commentator, in the international media, explained how Iraqis felt liberated and humiliated in equal measure when America-led forces illegally occupied his country. Ramiz's studies took him to Egypt, a law degree at Princeton (1958), ...

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Ghulam Mustafa Qasmi

Birth:1916

Death:2003

Muslim scholar. Allama Ghulam Mustafa Qasmi not only left his mark as a theologian but he also left his footprints in the realms of education, literary criticism, historical research, journalism and medicine and as an activist in his country's independence movement against the British colonial ...

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Gulammohammed Bora

Birth:1945

Death:2005

He touched the lives of all who met him. Hafiz Bora remained loyal to two passions in his life - his love for travelling and teaching. This took him to Zambia, Lusaka and then to Sheffield in the UK. In his love of da'wah he ...

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Ghulam Ahmad Sofi

Birth:1937

Death:2005

Kashmiri folk singer. Ghulam Ahmad Sofi popularly known as 'Amma Sofi', a Kashmiri folk singer of 'Chakri folk' and 'Shah Rang' rendition attained great fame and dominated for over four decades. Performed at national and international levels legendary Ustaad Sofi was best known for his ...

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Ghulam Sharfuddin Farid

Birth:1927

Death:2006

An Indian philatelic journalist and postal historian. In the field of Islamic calligraphy, amulets and coins, Farid, was a renowned numismatist and philatelic journalist who founded the Centre of Deltiology and Philately. Farid's research works on medieval Indian coins, especially the coins of Bengal's Sultans, ...

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Gulzar Haider

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Born in Pakistan, Prof Gulzar Haidar was a Fulbright Scholar and received his master's, bachelor's and doctorate degrees in architecture from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Since the early 1980s he has been deeply involved with issues of architecture and culture with special focus on ...

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Ghulam Muhammad Mahmood Banatwala

Birth:1933

Death:2008

Indian politician The careful style of the rhetoric and speeches that reflected the nervousness and insecurity of Indian Muslim community that has frequently been the target of riots instigated by Hindu extremists was the hallmark of Ghulam Banatwala. The greatest single atrocity visited on Indian ...

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Ghulam Nabi Saqeb

Birth:1929

Death:2008

Educationist One of the members of the First World Conference on Muslim Education, held in Makkah in the 1970s and an advisor on Muslim education for the Islamic Academy, Cambridge, Prof Dr Ghulam Nabi Saqeb was a prominent educationist. Prof Saqeb was actively involved in ...

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Ghulam Moheyddin Moonas Naqshi

Birth:1904

Death:1960

A mystic Punjabi poet Mystic poet who urged his audience to live their lives without hurting anyone's feelings Ghulam Moheyddin Moonas Naqshi believed in the higher values of life and reminded his readers of the lives hereafter to answer for their deeds. In 1959, his book, ...

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Gani Fawenhinmi

Birth:1938

Death:2009

Nigeria's lawyer and human rights campaigner A man for whom silence was never an option, Gani Fawehinmi was one of the most famous figures of his country. For more than 40 years he played the role of national gadfly, constantly provoking over-mighty rulers and defending their ...

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Ghulam Rabbani Agro

Birth:1934

Death:2010

Sindhi writer and intellectual One of the pioneers of the Sindhi short stories, Ghulam Rabbani authored many books including Jahra Gul Gulab Ja, Sindh Ja Bar Bahr Pahar and Aab-i-Hayat for which he is well-known. Started writing short stories from early 1950s, Agro's stories were ...

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Ghazi Al Gosaibi

Birth:1940

Death:2010

Saudi politician and poet One of inspiring and reform minding Saudis politicians Ghazi Abdul Rahman al-Gosaibi stemmed chronic corruption and extremism. A part of a select group of commoner technocrats in the 1970s he sought to modernise the kingdom. He was empowered by his huge ...

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Ghulam Farid Sabri

Birth:1930

Death:1994

Pakistani musician Founder member of the Sabri Brothers, Ghulam Farid Sabri was a master of qawwali. Rooted in the mystical expression of Sufism, Sabri Brothers took qawwali, the devotional music, to the west. Qawwali is particularly popular in south Asia. Considered a master of improvisational ...

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Ghulam Nabi Drabu

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Death:2012

Kashmiri administrator A man known for his piety, compassion and warmth Ghulam Nabi Drabu cherished his past, was content with his present and confident about his future. A distinguished personality of Indian Administrative Service and expert in taxation law he served in his home state, ...

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Gamal Al Ghitani

Birth:1945

Death:2015

Egyptian novelist A former carpet designer, Gamal al-Ghitani switched his careers to become one of Egypt's most acclaimed novelists. His work was frequently published in English translations. He was most famous for his 1974 novel 'Zayni Barakat,' a scorching allegorical critique of totalitarianism in which ...

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