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Birth:1910[Please note date of birth and death to be verified].
Through most of the 1960s, it was difficult to talk about the East London Mosque on Commercial Road without reference to Haji Taslim Ali and his close friend, Sulaiman Jetha, secretary and later ...
Birth:1940Note: Date of Birth to be verified. An obituary prepared by Bala Muhammad and published in the Daily Trust, Nigeria notes: Deputy Secretary General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs Professor Tijjani Abubakar El-Miskin was a veteran journalist and prominent civil society activist. El-Miskin was Deputy Secretary General ...
Birth:1975Bangladeshi novelist With her first novel, 'A Golden Age' (2007) Tahmima Anam's book distinguished her as a young novelist writing resonantly about ruptures of war. Her research into the Bangladeshi liberation war of 1971 and its emotional aftershocks included testimonies from her own freedom-fighters parents. These accounts were woven into her second ...
Birth:1979Yemeni human rights activist and a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel peace prize. Recognised to some of Yemen's opposition movement as the 'mother of the revolution', Tawakkul Karman has emerged as a crucial figure among the youth activists who began camping out at Change Square in central Sana'a in early February 2011, ...
Birth:1956One of Bangladesh's most prominent filmmakers. One of Bangladesh most prominent filmmakers, Tareque Masud rose to prominence with the films Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom) in 1995 and Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) in 2002, the later based on his experiences during Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. Matir Moina won the ...
Birth:1727Harbinger of a new age A man who embraced and promoted modernity and the scientific outlook, at the time, Khan-e-Allama Nawab Tafazzul Hussain Khan was acknowledged as the harbinger of a new age and was given the high accolade. His expertise in the rational (Mathematics and Astronomy) and theological sciences (...
Birth:1925India's Modernist painter One of the most celebrated of India's Modernist painters, Tyeb Mehta, was known for his work breaking auction records and who became a national hero. In 2005 his 1997 painting 'Mahisasura,' an image of the Hindu buffalo-demon defeated by goddess Durga, sold at Christie's New York for $1.58m, ...
Birth:1956Champion for the peaceful unification of Africa The champion of Pan-African vision and the peaceful unification of Africa, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, was also a thinker, writer and prodigious orator who inspired and influenced a whole generation of Africans with his mixture of passion and humour. In his days in London Tajudeen ...
Birth:1935Turkey's women's rights champion A champion of women's rights and education for poor children in Turkey, Turkan Saylan was also a leader in the fight against leprosy. Working as a dermatologist in Turkey, Dr. Saylan became active in the 1970s, founding the Turkish Leprosy Relief Association. She was a consultant ...
Birth:1929Sudan's illustrious literary figure Writing in Arabic with great success, Tayeb Salih is well known for his Mawsim al hijra ila al shimal (Season of Migration to the North, 1966) showing perceptive assessment of the relationship between East and West, and complex weaving of personal and political lives. Season of Migration ...
