Liaquat Ali Khan
Birth:1896
Death:1951
Liaquat Ali Khan was a Jinnah-Liaquat partnership team.
In 1928, he was part of the Jinnah-led Muslim team to the all-parties convention at Calcutta that failed to bridge Congress-League differences. However, this was the start of a Jinnah-Liaquat partnership that was to make a considerable impact ...
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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin
Lotf Ali Khan Zand
Birth:1769
Death:1794
The last ruler of the Zand dynasty.
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Lounes Matoub
Birth:1956
Death:1998
Singer, voice of the Berbers.
Matoub's words shaped the music and shrouded the melody, reaching the deepest emotions among the folk of the Berber mountain villages. Three themes repeated in his songs, his mother, his language and love. His music was particularly Chabbi, the popular ...
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Lukman Harun
Birth:1943
Death:1999
Indonesia's politician par excellence that served his country as an ambassador to the Islamic world.
Lukman was an 'accomodationist' and not a 'confrontationist'. He devoted himself to the social and educational work of the 'Muhammadiyah'. Lukman was also an internationalist, behind all the just Islamic ...
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Lutfi Al-khuli
Birth:1928
Death:1999
Prominent Egyptian writer and journalist.
Lutfi joined Al-Ahram in 1963 and became chief editor of Tali'ah from 1965 to 1977.
Lutfi supported Palestinian intifadah and was a member of the Egyptian delegation to the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.
Lutfi chaired the Asia and Africa Writers Federation and in 1992 received ...
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Lutfullah
Birth:1802
Death:
A descendent of Shah Kamaluddin who was a great saint of Malwa.
Luftullah proceeded to England as secretary to Mir Jafar Ali, along with the son-in-law of the Nawab of Surat in 1844. He wrote his adventures in 1854, Autobibliography of Lutfullah in English that was published ...
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Layla Balabakki
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Death:
Lebanese novelist.
The semi-autobiographical novel, Ana Ahiya (I Live), by Layla Balabakki, published in 1958, is regarded as an outstanding literary achievement in Arabic.
The novel reflects a very different vision and approach of society and politics from that expressed by men. The Lebanese political writer ...
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Liu Chih
Birth:1892
Death:1972
The most famous Chinese Muslim writer and author of True Annals of the Greatest Saint of Arabia.
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Lalla Fatima Zohra
Birth:1926
Death:2003
She founded the Moroccan Women's Union and was known as the Princess of the Poor.
Princess Lalla, for years to come, travelled throughout Morocco, visiting the poorest villages and listening to the stories of women who had been beaten, neglected and divorced without pension. She ...
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Lakhdar Brahimi
Birth:1934
Death:
The quite and seasoned Arab diplomat.
Lakhdar Brahimi who has been handling difficult international missions was rewarded with a comfortable appointment in New York as special advisor on conflict resolution to the UN secretary-general.
Brahimi has now been charged with sorting out Iraq, possibly the ...
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Laleh Keshavarz
Birth:1979
Death:
The first of the two Muslim women to reach the top of the world's highest mountain.
On 30 May 2005, Laleh Keshavarz and Farkhondeh Sadegh made their long-awaited dream come true when they conquered the 8,850-meter high mountain, situated in eastern Nepal.
Keshavarz, dentist by profession, was ...
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Lev Nussimbaum
Birth:1906
Death:1942
A man caught between East and West.
Lev Nussimbaum was born on a train in tsarist Russia during the 1905 revolution. His father was a Baku oil magnet, his mother a political dissenter who committed suicide a few years later, reportedly by drinking acid.
Nussimbaum grew ...
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Lauren Booth
Birth:1967
Death:
British journalist
After having what she describes as a 'holy experience' during a visit to Iran British journalist and broadcaster Lauren Booth converted to Islam.
She works for Press TV, the English-language Iranian news Channel. In the past Lauren has spent considerable time working in ...
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Leila Aboulela
Birth:1964
Death:
Sudanese writer and playwright.
In her third and the latest novel, Lyrics Alley (2010), Leila Aboulela encompasses themes of polygamy, female circumcision. Her second novel Minaret (2005) featured a woman culturally adrift in London and reconnecting with her Islamic faith after fleeing Sudan following civil war in ...
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Lalla Aicha
Birth:1930
Death:2011
Women's rights activist
Fought all her life for women's rights, Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco was the first female Arab ambassador. Unveiled and dressed like a modern Western woman, her appearance and her words shook many people.
Symbolised as Moroccan independence and feminism, nationalist leaders ...
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Leka Zogu
Birth:1939
Death:2011
Crown prince of Albania
When King Zog fled with his family after Mussolini's troops invaded Albania Zogu was two days old. Half a century later, after communism fell in his homeland, Zogu made two abortive attempts to return to Tirana as king. Many Albanians, however, ...
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Lady Evelyn Cobbold
Birth:1867
Death:1963
A convert to Islam
The Scottish aristocrat, a convert to Islam, adopted the Muslim name Zainab.
A noblewoman, Evelyn, at age 65, in 1933, became the first British-born Muslim woman to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca. In 1934, a personal account of her trip was published entitled Pilgrimage ...
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Leila Alaoui
Birth:1982
Death:2016
Moroccan photographer admired for her striking portraits
Best known for a series of portraits of Moroccan people taken by Leila Alaoui and shown at the Biennial of Contemporary Arab World Photography in Paris.
She embarked on a photographic project on migrants, a subject that remained ...
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