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Birth:1935Diplomat turned politician An Indian who worked as a diplomat for the Indian Foreign Service, Syed Shahabuddin later became a politician and served three terms from 1979-1996 as a member of the Parliament of India.
He was known for his involvement in the Shah Bano case; a ...
Birth:1932Economist An economist and senior vice president of the World Bank Syed Shahid Husain played a key role in economic assistance to countries in Latin America, Africa and East Asia, in his 33-year career at the international financial institutions. He joined the Pakistani civil service in 1956 and in 1963 joined the ...
Birth:1940Saudi diplomat The most familiar face and voice of Saudi Arabia in western capitals for four decades was Prince Saud al-Faisal as foreign minister. One of the most influential members of the Saudi government, Prince Saud al-Faisal became the world's longest serving foreign minister, navigating four Saudi kings and seven ...
Birth:1936Saudi Arabia's ruler King Salman carries with him the best traditions of leadership and stands uniquely qualified to lead the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia toward the future. He has worked, since an early age, alongside most of the Kings of Saudi Arabia in building his country, and is personally credited ...
Birth:1970British politician Elected as the first Muslim mayor of London, a Western capital city, Sadiq Khan won with more than 1.3 million votes, in what was called the biggest mandate in the history of British politics. And the Labour candidate managed his landslide, in 2016, even after his opponent smeared him as ...
Birth:1960Islamic scholar A distinguished scholar of Islamic studies Professor Shakil Auj having, relatively liberal views, was struck by assassins while he was on his way to a reception at the Iranian Cultural Centre in Karachi. Dean of Islamic Studies at Karachi University Professor Shakil Auj had no political enthusiasms, was ...
Birth:1927A prominent Iranian poet and activist National poet and an icon of the Iranian intelligentsia and literati Simin Behbahani was affectionately referred to as the 'lioness of Iran'. She came from a generation that rediscovered the freedom of critical thinking in Iranian society controlled by absolute monarchy and refused to ...
Birth:1922One of the world's foremost scholars One of the world's great scholars and a spiritual leader Mehmet Nâzım Adil, formally referred to as Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, often called Sheikh Nazim, was a Turkish Cypriot Sufi Sheikh and leader of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order. Widely travelled Sheikh Nazim ...
Birth:1969British politician A British Conservative Party politician, Sajid Javid has been the Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove since 2010 and the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Equalities since 2014. His glittering career in international finance to the British cabinet is extra-ordinary. Sajid Javid was born in ...
Birth:1703A reformer in India who was one of the first Muslim thinkers to see the threat that Western modernity posed to Islam. Shah Waliullah was the most celebrated theologian, scholar, translator and expounder of the Qur'an in Muslim India. His greatest contribution to India was popularising the Qur'anic education. He ...
