Ghulam Ali Allana
Birth:1903
Death:
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
Death:
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
Birth:
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
Birth:
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
Birth:
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
Birth:
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
Death:
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
Birth:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
Birth:
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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Death:
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
Birth:
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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