Hashim Al Atasi
Birth:1875
Death:1960
Syrian president for three times.
Atasi was a member of the Syrian Congress in 1919 and the Head of a Syrian delegation to Paris that negotiated for Syria's independence in 1936. On his return he was elected president of Syria. Faced with French Government's refusal to ratify ...
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Haider Ali Aatish
Birth:1778
Death:1846
An Urdu poet. His father came to Faizabad during the reign of Shuja ud daula from Delhi.
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Haider Abu Bakr Al Attas
Birth:1939
Death:
The prime minister of United Yemen since 1990. President of South Yemen from 1986 to 1990.
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Hassan Al Bolkiah
Birth:1946
Death:
The Sultan of Brunei, the son of Sultan Sir Umar Ali Saifuddin.
Bolkiah Hassan was made crown prince in 1961 and Sultan on his father's abdication in 1967.
Bolkiah is known to be the richest man of the world and is estimated to be worth more than 25 ...
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Houari Muhammad Boumedienne
Birth:1972
Death:1978
An Algerian politician. He supported Ben Bella for his Presidency of Algeria in 1963, but in a coup in 1965, deposed Ben Bella and himself become President.
He died in office in 1978.
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Habib Ben Ali Bourguiba
Birth:1903
Death:2000
Political architect of modern Tunisia.
Ben Ali dedicated to ending French colonial rule. He brought social reforms on a secular western mould after Tunisia's national independence in 1956. His 31-year reign tended to be authoritarian: he was a man of fierce independence of character and deep ...
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Habba Khatoon
Birth:1554
Death:1609
A Kashmiri poetess.
Habba Khatoon whose real name was Zun (the moon) was well versed in Arabic and Persian. Her married life did not last long and she was finally divorced. Prince Yusuf Shah of Kashmir married her later on.
In 1586 the Mughal Emperor Akbar ...
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Habes Al Majali
Birth:c1913
Death:2001
Soldier.
The Jordanian Field Marshal who was the only Arab commander to administer military defeat on Israelis in 1948 and restored a modicum of pride to Arabs. He represented somehow nobler, if not gentler, past and remained loyal to Hashemite rulers.
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Habibullah Khan
Birth:1871
Death:1919
King of Afghanistan.
Habibullah Khan son of Abdur Rahman succeeded his father in 1901. He was loyal to the British and held out against German emissaries during the first World War. He insisted that his courtiers should wear European dress and tried to introduce western customs ...
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Hafez Al Assad
Birth:1930
Death:2000
Long-serving President and dictator of Syria.
He is the butcher of Hama, the town in Syria in which 25,000 Muslims were slaughtered by his security forces in 1984.
As a student, he joined the Ba'th Party to protest against social conditions in Syria. In 1955, he graduated from ...
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Hafez Ali Abdul Qadir
Birth:1907
Death:1988
Saudi Arabia's most influential publisher and journalist.
He was the founder of Al-Madinah in 1937 and English language Arab News: His company is the biggest Arab publishing company in the west.
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Hafeez Jalandhari
Birth:1900
Death:1982
An Urdu poet.
Hafeez Jalandhari is also known as Firdausi of Islam because of his magnum opus Shah Nama Islam in four volumes. His first collection of poems Nagma-e-Zar was published in 1935.
Hafeez is the creator of the national anthem of Pakistan.
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Hafiz Abru Abdullah Ibn Lut Fallah Ibn Abdul Rashid
Birth:
Death:1430
An Iranian historian of the Timurrid period (1370-1506).
He went with Timur on many expeditions and after Timur's death he joined his son Shah Rukh (1405-46) as a court historian. Majmua was a collection of three well known works, collected by him. His Majmual Tavarikh ...
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Hafiz Ibn Hajr Asqalani
Birth:1372
Death:1449
A traditionalist.
Asqalani was born in Egypt, and was the author of more than one hundred fifty works including Fath ul Bari fi Sharhul Bukhari and Al Isaba fi Tamizul Sahaba.
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Hafiz Ibahim Muhammad
Birth:1872
Death:1932
An Egyptian poet.
Hafiz denounced imperialism in his poems. His real talent was, however, in prose writing, which can be seen in his works Al Bu Asa and Layali Sath. His collection of poems were edited by Ahmad Amir and was published in two volumes.
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Haider Ali
Birth:1728
Death:1782
The ruler of Mysore and father of Tipu Sultan.
Haider Ali conquered Calicutt, Bednore, and Cannanors and by 1766 his dominions included more than 84,000 sq. miles. He defeated the British in 1767 and routed them in Carnatic and Madras but was ultimately defeated by Sir Eyre Cooto.
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Haider Mirza
Birth:
Death:1551
In 1540 he was deputised by Humayoon, the Mughal King, to conquer Kashmir, which he did with great ease. But as Sher Shah expelled that Emperor from India, Haider became the king of Kashmir. In 1548 he also took Tibet, Rajara and Pagala and reigned there for ...
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Haider Mummai Mir
Birth:
Death:1577
A contemporary of Shah Ismail II, king of Iran.
Haider was distinguished for writing chronograms and enigmas.
Haider visited India during Akbar's time.
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Haji Bairam
Birth:
Death:1430
Born at Anqara, he was the founder of the Biramiya order of Dervishes, which was a branch of the Naqshbandiya order.
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Haji Raja
Birth:1808
Death:1784
A Malayan statesman.
Haji Raja seized the capital of north Malay State of Kedhan. He Inherited the powerful office under the Johore king in 1777 and developed a port south of Singapore as a major trade centre which undermined the position of Dutch controlled Malacca post.
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Hajib Al Mansur
Birth:c938
Death:1002
After the death of al Hakam, he rose to the post of royal chamberlain (Hajib) and Vizier under the patronage of the Queen Subh.
Hajib built for himself in 978 a magnificent city called al Madinah al Zahrah and took the title of Mansur bi-Allah (Victorious ...
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Hajjaj Bin Yusuf Al Saqafi
Birth:661
Death:714
Abdul Malik the fifth Caplih of the Ommayads made him Governor of Arabia and Arabian Iraq, after he had defeated and killed Abdullah bin Zubair, who had declared himself caliph of Hajaz.
In 693 Hajjaj destroyed Ka'bah, which Abdullah bin Zubair had repaired. It was said ...
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Hakeem Abdul Hameed
Birth:1908
Death:1999
Manufacturer of Unani medicine.
After he took over Hamdard Dawakhana, which was founded at Delhi in 1922 by his father who died three months earlier, Hameed nourished it into the premier manufacturer of Unani medicine with modern methods. He standardised Unani Pharmacoepia and its publication and ...
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Hakeem Muhammad Saeed
Birth:1920
Death:1998
Humanitarian, educationist, philanthropist and scholar.
In Pakistan Hakeem Saeed established a pharmaceutical manufacturing company and later on pioneered the Hamdard University, a centre of excellence. Hamdard a full-fledged pharmaceutical organisation got the Hamdard Foundation incorporated in 1953 to sponsor scientific conferences, lectures, publish scholarly books, encourage ...
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Hakeem Abdul Majid
Birth:
Death:1922
The founder of Hamdard, Delhi, in 1906. His Hamdard followed the Unani system of treating illness. When India was divided in 1947, his younger son, Hakim Muhammad Said, migrated to Karachi, Pakistan. Hamdard a full-fledged pharmaceutical organisation got the Hamdard Foundation incorporated in 1953 to sponsor scientific conferences, ...
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Hamd Allah Al Amasi
Birth:1436
Death:1520
An Ottoman calligrapher.
Hamd Allah adapted six scripts, cannonised by Yaqut al Mustasimi and refined the 'Dewani' script used for documents in Ottoman chancelleries. Sultan Bayzid II the ruler valued his works so highly that he held the inkpot as Hamd Allah wrote.
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Hamd Ullah Mustoufi Bin Abu Bakr Al Qazwini
Birth:
Death:1349
Author of Tarikh Guzida in 1329 and Nuzhat ul Qulub the celebrated work on geography, which earned him the title of Le Geographe Persan.
His grandfather was an accountant (Mustoufi) in Iraq, and hence he was called Mustoufi.
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Hamdan Qaramat Bin Al Ashash
Birth:
Death:c890
The founder of the Karamatian sect.
His nickname karamitia meant, 'man with fiery eyes'. He built near Kufa an official residence called Dar al Hijra, place of refuge. This became his centre where his followers settled.
Later he went to Syria where he died.
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Hamdani Al Badiuzzaman Abu Al Fazal
Birth:969
Death:1008
The Persian author of Arabic work (Maqamah) a kind of dramatic anecdote in rhymed prose, translated into English by W J Prendergast in 1915. His work served as a model for Hariri's Maqamat.
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Hamdani Al Ali Ibn Shihab
Birth:1314
Death:1385
Born at Hamdan, he was the propagator of the Kubrawiyah sect in Kashmir.
He visited Kashmir in 1372, 1378 and 1385 and spread Islam in Kashmir. Authored Dhakirat al Muluk a study of political ethics.
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Hamdi Hamd Allah Chelebi
Birth:1448
Death:1509
His fame was based on his Masnavis of which he had written five in imitation of Nizami's Khamsa.
Between the 13th and 18th century, men of letters in Turkey used to get the title Chelebi or Celebi.
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Hamid Ali Khan
Birth:1922
Death:1998
Bollywood film actor.
Hamid's dream of becoming the czar of celluloid became true when he played the role of villain in India's film industry under the film-name of Ajit. Acting in over 200 films, he will be remembered in the magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam.
Hamid had a ...
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Hamid Falakuddin Dundar
Birth:
Death:1324
The founder of the Hamid dynasty of Turkmen. He ruled with his brother Yunus but was killed by Demerits, the Governor of Anatolia.
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Hammad Ar Rawiyah
Birth:694
Death:c772
Born at Kufa he collected the seven famous odes of Arabic known as Al Muallaqat. He was a favourite of caliph al Walid II, for his knowledge of Arabic ancient poetry folklore and genealogy.
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Hazrat Hamza
Birth:
Death:625
The son of Abdul Muttalib and uncle of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who gave him the title of Asadullah and put into his hand the first standard of Islam called Raet-ul-Islam.
He was killed in the battle of Uhad. Hinda, the wife of Abu Sufian pulled ...
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Hassan Hanafi
Birth:1935
Death:
An Egyptian reformer educated at the University of Cairo and Sorrbone, France.
Hanafi authored Al-turath wa al tajdid (Heritage and renewal); Min al agidah ila al thawrah (From doctrine to revolution); Mugaddimah fi ilm al istighrab (Introduction to the science of occidentalism)
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Handal Mirza
Birth:1518
Death:1551
Son of Babar and Humayon's brother.
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Hanif Muhammad
Birth:1934
Death:2016
A Pakistani cricket star who played the longest innings in Test history.
Hanif Muhammad was a builder of monumental innings, both in terms of number of runs he scored and the time he spent at the crease. For more than three decades he held the ...
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Hanif Kureishi
Birth:1954
Death:
Writer.
Hanif won London's Thames Television Playwright Award in 1980 for his first full-length play 'The Mother Country'. His first film (commissioned by London's Channel 4), 'My Beautiful Laundrette' was released in London in 1986 and won London's the Evening Standard Award for Best Film, and on its ...
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Hariri Al Abu Muhammad Al Qasim Ibn Ali
Birth:1054
Death:1122
Born near Basra, he was known for his Maqamat e Hariri, translated in English as `The Assemblies of al-Hariri (1867 and 1898). His Durrat al Ghawwas fi Awham al Khwass was a grammar book of Arabic and pointed out the errors of expression.
His Maqamat was a ...
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Haroon Shamsher
Birth:1965
Death:1999
Musician, disc jockey, songwriter and producer.
Haroon was born in Britain whose family originally came from Bengal and died in London of a heart attack.
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Harun Al Rashid
Birth:763
Death:809
The most famous Abbasid Caliph whose reign coincided with the zenith of caliphal absolute power, and who presided over a magnificent cultural florescence.
Harun al-Rashid succeeded to the Caliphate in 786 and ruled like an absolute monarch with elaborate pomp. Courtiers kissed the ground when they ...
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Hasan Al Banna
Birth:1906
Death:1949
An Egyptian reformer and founder of the society of Muslim Brothers.
Hasan al-Banna knew that Muslims needed Western science and technology, and that they must reform their political and social institutions. But he was also convinced that this must go hand in hand with spiritual ...
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Hasan Al Basri
Birth:642
Death:728
A celebrated preacher in Basra and a leader of a religious reform.
Hasan al-Basri who was brought in Madinah in circles close to the Prophet, peace be upon him, later moved to Basra where he developed a spirituality based on contempt for worldly goods. His ...
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Hasan Aziz Hasan
Birth:1924
Death:2000
Painter and memoirist. A family member of Egypt's last ruling monarch was born in San Remo, Italy, and died in Cairo.
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Hasan Bin Muhammad
Birth:1929
Death:1999
King of Morocco.
Hasan came from the Alawite dynasty and enthroned in 1961. For nearly forty years, he retained control of his country with a combination of firmness and skilful policies; his reign faced violent and turbulent period. The most serious threat came in 1971 when he ...
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Hasan Ebrahim Mall
Birth:1922
Death:2000
Judge.
Hasan was nominated as the first black acting judge in 1988, in the twilight days of the Apartheid regime. Chancellor of the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa, since 1994, he also became Chairman of the Amnesty Committee of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation commission in 1995.
Hasan ...
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Hasan Ibn Sabit
Birth:c563
Death:674
An Arabian poet.
Hasan accepted Islam at the age of about 60. He became known for his defence of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) in his poems. His writings in defence of Islam contained references to contemporary events, which later proved useful for documenting of that period.
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Hasan Mir
Birth:
Death:1790
The author of Masnawi Mir Hasan describing the love story of Badr i Maner and Benazir in Urdu which was dedicated to Nawab Asaf-uddaula of Oudh in 1785. It was also called Sehrul Bayan.
Hasan Mir's ancestors came from Herat to Delhi where he was born.
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Hasan Sabah
Birth:1050s
Death:1124
The founder of the Ismaili dynasty in Iran.
Hasan Sabah was the mace-bearer of Sultan Alp Arsalan, but after a dispute with Nezam-ul-Mulk the minister of Arsalan, he came to Ray, his native country. From there he went to Syria into the service of Ismail ...
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Hashim Khan
Birth:1913
Death:2014
One of the greatest squash players of all time.
The patriarch of Pakistan's squash supremacy Hashim Khan won seven British Open titles, three United States and Canadian titles.
Hashim broke the monopoly of the Egyptians at squash and went to become the father of the ...
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Hasrat Mohani
Birth:1875
Death:1951
An Urdu poet and politician.
Maulana Hasrat Mohani occupies a unique place in the history of the sub-continent. With his multi-dimensional personality - a deeply religious man, fearless politicians, accomplished writer, renowned critic, distinguished journalist, and the pioneer of modern Urdu ghazal - he excelled ...
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Hayat Ullah Ansari
Birth:1907
Death:1999
Indian journalist, parliamentarian and founder-editor of Urdu daily Quami Awaz. He died in Lucknow.
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Hesham Reda
Birth:1952
Death:2000
Muslim activist and humanitarian in the USA.
Hesham helped develop the 'Islam Roundtable' at the US state department and the American Muslim Council and was also an active member of a host of organisations.
Hesham Reda was born in Cairo and died of lung cancer ...
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Hidaya Sultan Al Salem
Birth:1936
Death:2001
Campaigner, journalist and writer.
Hidaya campaigned against corruption and the police force and for full suffrage for women in Kuwait.
Hidaya authored books and articles and criticised the tribal traditions that oppressed women contrary to Islamic directives.
Hidaya was born in Shuwaikh and was shot ...
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Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj
Birth:1908
Death:1999
The first Muslim pilot in 1936.
Hijab was also a prominent Urdu short story writer.
Hijab was born in Hyderabad, India and died in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Hijri
Birth:
Death:c1766
A Persian poet of Bengal, famous for a Qasida composition.
If you have read the first letter of every misra, you have a Qita in praise of Nawab Syed Raza Khan Muzaffarjang. Some letters in the Qasida were written in red, if you have read ...
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Hisham I
Birth:788
Death:796
The son of Abdur Rahman, the founder of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain.
The famous mosque of Codova was founded by his father but completed by Hisham.
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Hisham II
Birth:965
Death:1013
The Caliph of Spain during 976-1013.
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Hisham III
Birth:975
Death:1036
The last Ummayed Caliph of Cordoba (1027-31).
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Hisham Ibn Al Kalbi
Birth:747
Death:821
The Arab scholar who was also known as Al Mundhir.
Hisham authored on early battles, customs and literature, Jamharat an Nasab Al Khayl (on famous horses), Kitab ul Asnam on pre-Islamic idolatry.
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Hoshang Golshiri
Birth:1936
Death:2000
Iranian writer.
Hoshang was a dissident all his life and a champion on the right to freedom of expression.
Hoshang was a 'master of short novel' known for his works: Prince Ehtejab, published in 1986, brought him international acclaim. His novels' theme was about the difficulties ...
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Hosni Mubarak
Birth:1928
Death:
The Egyptian leader ignominiously ousted by a popular revolution.
As president of his country Hosni Mubarak, in 1981, inherited a difficult hand. Saadat bequeathed him an Egypt ostracised by its Arab neighbours for its signing of the 1979 Camp David accords with Israel. Mubarak's most important task ...
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Hossam Eddin Mustafa
Birth:1936
Death:2000
Film director.
Mustafa who was acclaimed and best known for his screen adaptations of novels by Mehfuz Nagib. Hossam made over hundred films and created over dozens of popular Egyptian historical soap operas, died in Cairo.
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Humayun
Birth:1508
Death:1556
An emperor of Hindustan.
The 'Hero of Panipath', 'The Mujahid' of the battle of Khanwa against Rana Sanga, the Emperor of Hindustan Humayoon was defeated by Sher Shah in a battle fought at the banks of the Chausa in Bihar in 1539 and was forced to ...
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Humayun Rasheed Choudhury
Birth:1928
Death:2001
Diplomat.
Humayun was the Speaker of Bangladesh National assembly since 1996, and held a number of diplomatic positions in his career including a membership of the OIC mediation mission during Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Humayun was recipient of the UN Peace Medal in 1987 and Mahatma ...
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Hunayn Ibn Ishaq
Birth:808
Death:873
Known in the west as Johan-nistus.
Hunayn translated the works of Plato, Aristotle, Galen and neo-Platonist into Arabic.
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Hussain I
Birth:1668
Death:1726
The last independent ruler of the Saffarid dynasty of Iran.
Hussain reign lasted from 1694 to 1722. The Western powers took advantage of this weak king and Mahmud of Afghanistan forced him to surrender his kingdom to him in 1722.
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Hussain Ahmad Madani
Birth:1878
Death:1957
A religious and political leader of India.
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Husayn Bayqara
Birth:1438
Death:1506
A Timurid ruler of Iran.
In the thirty-seven years from 1470 to 1506 of his rule in Herat Baiqara gave the Timuried empire fairly peaceful conditions in spite of rebellions by his sons.
Hussain Baiqara was an enlightened monarch who patronised poets like Ali Sher Navai and ...
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Hussein Bin Dato Onn
Birth:1922
Death:1990
Politician.
Hussain was educated in a military college in Dehra Dun, India. In 1942 he joined the Indian Army and the British forces to liberate Malaya from the Japanese in 1945.
Hussain became Secretary General U.M.N.O. In 1969 he was elected to the Parliament and ...
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Hussein Chalayan
Birth:1970
Death:
Fashion designer.
Known for his avant-garde collections Hussein Chalayan has worked as creative director at Asprey and TSE New York, and has designed capsule collections for Topshop, Marks and Spencer and J Brand Jeans.
International markets were quick to appreciate Chalayan. In February 2008, he was ...
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Hussein Ibn Talal
Birth:1935
Death:1999
A Jordanian monarch.
Hussain was educated in Britain and ascended the throne in 1953. He walked the tightrope of Middle East politics with greater skill than any of his contemporaries. His survival at the head of a population well over half of whom considered themselves Palestinians, ...
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Hussein Ibrahim Issa
Birth:1947
Death:2000
Peace campaigner.
Hussain was the founder and principal of the Hope Flowers school for underprivileged Palestinian children. Education for Issa covered all aspects of life and attitude to other people.
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Hussain Nizam Shah I
Birth:
Death:1565
He ascended the throne of Ahmad Nagar in Deccan in 1554.
Hussain Nizam Shah formed an alliance with Ali Adil Shah of Bijapur, Ibrahim Qutb Shah of Golkanda and Amir Barid of Ahmadabad against Ram Raj, the Raja of Vijaynagar, who had become a menace to ...
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Huseyin Rahmi Gurpinar
Birth:1864
Death:1944
A Turkish novelist.
Gurpinar authored Iffet (1897), Muttalaka (1898), and Son Arzu (1918). He translated French novels into Turkish.
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Hussain Shah Sharqi
Birth:
Death:1499
He ascended the throne of Jaunpur in 1452.
Sharqi fought several battles with Sultan Bahlol Lodi and was defeated by him in 1489.
Hussain Shah Sharqi was a great patron of art and music and was himself a good musician.
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Hussain Waiz Kashifi
Birth:
Death:1505
Scholar and writer.
Kashifi was the author of a commentary on Qur'an called Tafsir Husaini, Jawahir ul Tafsir Rouzatush Shuhada, Akhlaq Muhsini, Anwar Suheli. The last named was a translation of Pilpay's Fables in Persian, dedicated to Amir Shaikh Ahmad Suheli. Anwar Suheli till recent ...
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Humayoon Kabir
Birth:1906
Death:1969
An Indian politician.
Humayoon was educated at Calcutta and Oxford, and was minister of civil aviation in 1957 and minister for petroleum and chemicals during 1963-66.
Humayoon was the author of many books including the translation of Maulana Azad's India wins freedom.
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Hujatul Islam Ali Khamenei
Birth:1940
Death:
An Iranian religious leader.
Khameni was personal representative of Ayatollah Khomeini, Secretary General Islamic Republic Party 1980-1987 and President of Iran 1981-89.
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Hazrat Khudyja
Birth:c555
Death:619
The first wife of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had three daughters by her, one of them was Fatima who was married to Hazrat Ali. After her marriage to the Prophet (PBUH) she lived twenty-two years and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did not marry ...
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Hazrat Maimuna
Birth:
Death:681
The wife of the Prophet , peace be upon him.
She was the last wife of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and also the last to die. She survived about fifty years after the death of the Prophet, peace be upon him.
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Haji Muhammad Mohsin
Birth:1730
Death:1812
A philanthropist.
Haji Mohsin inherited a vast property, which he registered as a Waqf in 1806 for the education of Muslims in Bengal. Hoogly College was founded in 1836 out of the Haji Mohsin Trust fund.
Mohsin's grandfather came to India from Iran and settled in Hoogly, ...
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Hilmi Pasha
Birth:1874
Death:1944
A Turkish nationalist and twice the president of Turkey. When Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan was deposed in 1909, he was the president of Turkey.
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Haji Qawamuddin Hasan
Birth:
Death:1353
The Wazir to Shah Shaikh Abu Ishaq, ruler of Shiraz and one of the patrons of the great Persian poet Khwaja Hafiz, who praised him in some of his odes.
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Hashemi Rafsanjani
Birth:1934
Death:2017
An Iranian politician and religious leader who played a key role in the Islamic revolution of 1979.
When Khomeini was exiled in 1963, he worked with the underground revolutionaries and was imprisoned several times during the 1960s and '70s for his political activities. He helped to ...
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Hazrat Ruqaiya
Birth:603
Death:624
The second daughter of the Prophet, peace be upon him, by Hazrat Khadija.
She was three years younger than her sister, Hazrat Zainab. She married to Atba, son of Abu Lahab, but this marriage was dissolved and she was re-married to Hazrat Usman. After her ...
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Haji Hadi Sabzevari
Birth:1797
Death:1878
An Iranian scholar and philosopher of the Hikma School of philosophy.
After completing his studies, Hadi returned to Sabzevar and founded a Madarasa, which attracted students from as far as India. His doctrines were an exposition of the philosophical concepts of Mullah Sadra. He wrote ...
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Hoca Sadeddin
Birth:1536
Death:1599
A Turkish historian.
Sadeddin was the tutor of Prince Murad, and was given the title of Shaykh al-Islam (1598). His book of Tarikh covered the period from the beginning of the Ottoman Empire to the end of the reign of Salim 1 (1520).
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Hamiduddin Nagori
Birth:c1192
Death:1276
A celebrated Sufi saint.
Khawaja Hamiduddin Nagori was one of the most famous Sufi saints of India and was a disciple of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti (1141 - 1236), one of the most outstanding figures in the annals of Islamic mysticism and founder of the Chistiyya order in ...
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Hoda Shaarawi
Birth:1879
Death:1947
An Egyptian feminist.
Sha'rawi was involved in active movement for national independence from 1919 to 1922. She was the President of the Women's Central Committee of the nationalist Wafd party and founded L'Egyptian a monthly journal, serving the feminist cause in 1925. She also organised boycotts of British ...
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Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq
Birth:572
Death:634
The first Caliph of Islam.
Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq's self-sacrificing friendship with the Prophet (PBUH) was rewarded by his name being immortalised in the Qur'an as 'the second of the two'.
Hazrat Abu Bakr's short caliphate (632-634) was mostly occupied with Riddah (secession) wars. He ...
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Hasan Abdullah Al Turabi
Birth:1932
Death:2016
Sudanese ideologue, intellectual, scholar, politician and revolutionary.
Al-Tubari was no stranger to prison - two stints during the Nimeiri regime and two under the National Salvation regime, which he himself brought into power. The third detention happened in 1989. The fourth came about in February 2001 until ...
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Hazrat Umm Habiba
Birth:
Death:664
One of the wives of Hazrat Muhammad , peace be upon him, She was the daughter of Abu Safiyan, the father of Muawia.
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Halid Ziya Usakligil
Birth:1866
Death:1945
A Turkish novelist.
Ziya was educated at a French School in Izmir and wrote Bir Olunun Deftri (1889) and Ferdi ve Suvekast (1894). His novel Mai ve Siyah (1897) and Ishqi-Memnu (1900) was considered his masterpiece.
Ziya, along with some other modern writers of the time, founded a journal ...
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Hazrat Usman
Birth:583
Death:665
The third Caliph.
Hazrat Usman believed in the centralisation of power. He also set about producing a single definitive version of the Qur'an. His programme of centralisation of power aroused opposition. The question of whether surplus revenue from the provinces should be forwarded to Madinah ...
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Hazrat Zainab Bint Khuzaima
Birth:
Death:626
Hazrat Muhammad's, peace be upon him, sixth wife. She was the widow of the Prophet's, peace be upon him, cousin, Ubaidah who was killed at the battle of Badre. Hazrat Zainab was also known as 'Umul Masakin' ('Mother of the Poor').
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Haroon Ahmed
Birth:
Death:
Professor Haroon Ahmed is the first Muslim master of an Oxbridge College. He is a distinguished electrical and electronics engineer. His text books have been used to teach many generations of students. In August 2000 he became the Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is ...
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Hamid Dawood Habib
Birth:1926
Death:2000
Hamid Dawood Habib was a prominent Pakistani banker and philanthropist. His father and uncles founded the Indian sub-continent's first Muslim-owned bank, Habib Bank, in 1941. Mohamed Ali Jinnah requested the Habib Brothers to relocate the bank from Bombay to Karachi when Pakistan was founded in 1947.
Hamid ...
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Hatim Tai
Birth:c570
Death:
A famous Arabian chief, known for his generosity, wisdom and courage.
Hatim Tai was the King of the Tai tribe who lived in Najd province in the central part of the Arabian Peninsula. His legendary hospitality acquired fame as a great hero of Arabia and ...
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Hazrat Fatima
Birth:603
Death:632
The daughter of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Hazrat Khudija. Married to Hazrat Ali and was the mother of Hazrat Hasan and Hazrat Hussain. She was also known by the title Zahra, Batul, Tahira etc.
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Habash Al Hasib Al Marwazi
Birth:9th century
Death:
He was the first to determine time by an altitude and the first to compose a table of shadows, the equivalent of tangent.
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Haji Shari Atallah
Birth:1781
Death:1840
The founder of the Faraiziya sect.
He went on a pilgrimage to Makkah and returned to India in 1802 after about twenty years. He founded Faraiziya movement that stressed the importance of the obligatory duties, Farz, of the Muslims. Furthermore, seeing the exploitation of the Muslim ...
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Hkim Bawah Khan Madan Al Shifa I Sikandarshahi
Birth:
Death:
The first Persian text on Unani and Ayurbedic systems on medicine was produced by Hakim Bawah Khan, son of Khawas Khan, a courtier of Sultan Sikandar Lodi in 1512-13 AD.
It was printed in November 1877 for the first time from the single available manuscript.
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Halide Edip
Birth:1883
Death:1964
Halida or Khalida Edib was a Turkish writer.
While she was still 16 years old she wrote a controversial book against the Purdah, which made her well known in the whole of Turkey. She organised a women brigade in 1921. She became actively involved in Turkish literacy, ...
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Hamka
Birth:1908
Death:1981
Writer.
Hamka or Haji Abdul Malik Karim Abdullah was the most prolific of Indonesian writers. He founded the first Muhammadiyah journal in 1925. His involvement in the Muhammadiyah organisation brought him to Makasar, where he published a book on Islamic history and wrote some novels.
Hamka ...
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Hasan Al Din
Birth:17 century
Death:
His empire stretched from Borneo to New Guinea and from Lombok to southern Philippines.
Hasan reigned from 1631 to 1670 only after long and bitter fighting did he in 1667 accept Dutch terms, which ultimately proved disastrous, and which destroyed Macassar's dominance in trade and politics of that ...
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Hasan Ali
Birth:18 century
Death:
The poet Laureate of Tipu Sultan of Mysore.
Hasan authored Kok Shashtar, an obscene satire on women paraphrased from the Sanskrit to Urdu verse.
There was another translation of the same work called Lazzat-un-Nissa by Ziauddin Nakhshabi.
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Hisham Ibn Abd Al Malik
Birth:724
Death:743
Tenth Caliph of the house of Ummaya succeeded his brother in 724.
In his time lived the celebrated Majnun, the lover of Laila. It was said that 600 camels used to be in his attendance to carry his splendid wardrobe.
After Muswiyah and Abdul Malik, he was ...
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Hazrat Muhammad , Peace be Upon Him.
Birth:570
Death:632
The Prophet, peace be upon him.
His full name was Abul Qasim Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn al Muttalib ibn Hashim. The founder of Islam was born in Makkah. He was the posthumous son of Abdullah who was from a prominent Quraish clan. His mother Amna ...
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Hamid Bin Juma Bin Rajab Al Murjabi
Birth:c1840
Death:1905
A Zanzibar trader who extended his influence into the Congo region and much of East Africa.
In 1870, al-Murjabi also known as Tippu Tib built a formidable empire centred in the Maniema region and established his supremacy over a number of African chiefs and over rival ...
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Hossein Ali Montazeri
Birth:1922
Death:2009
Iran's Grand Ayatollah
The plain-spoken senior cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri (Grand Ayatollah from 1984) who helped forge Iran's system of religious government went on to become a fierce critic of its hard-liners.
Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was a potent force in Iranian politics for his revolutionary ...
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Hazrat Saudah
Birth:
Death:
She had married as the second wife of Hazrat Muhammad, peace be upon him, two months after the death of Hazrat Khadija.
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Hamza Alavi
Birth:1921
Death:2003
Pakistani sociologist and activist.
Hamza Alavi was a political activist in Britain in the early 1960s who co-founded, with David (later Lord) Pitt, a key pressure group of that era, the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination.
Hamza studied at Aligarh University, and did his PhD at ...
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Harun Yahya
Birth:1956
Death:
A prominent Turkish intellectual.
Harun Yahya is a pen name used by Adnan Oktar who is devoted to moral values and dedicated to communicating the sacred values he cherishes to other people. His detailed research into the prevalent materialistic philosophies and ideologies has helped in ...
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Hassan Khalifa
Birth:1943
Death:2003
Administrator at the British Council in Cairo.
Hassan Khalifa was a scholar with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Egypt. He started his career as librarian in British Council in Cairo in mid-1960. He set up, in 1977, his own Cairo Trade Centre, dealing with publishing, bookshop and ...
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Heydar Aliyev
Birth:1923
Death:2003
President of post-Soviet Azerbaijan who guided his nation through its first decade of independence.
Heydar Aliyev was a political survivor who shed his old Soviet skin to assume a new one of free-marketeer and would-be democrat. He rose to the pinnacle of the Soviet establishment, ...
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Hamza Yusuf
Birth:1960
Death:
American Islamic scholar.
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf travelled to Muslim world and studied for ten years in the United Arab Emirate, Saudi Arabia as well as North and West Africa. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in various countries.
Shaykh ...
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Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani
Birth:1951
Death:
The Emir of Qatar who is the beating heart of 21st century Araby.
Led by a bold, reformist emir, Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, Qatar has been transformed from a sleepy backwater into the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas. Part of that windfall is ...
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Hadi Saleh
Birth:1949
Death:2005
A leading Iraqi trade unionist apposed to the US-led war against his country.
Hadi Saleh, trade unionist and communist, was international secretary of Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU). He started his career as a printer when his professional life was interrupted at the age ...
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Hasan Abidi
Birth:1929
Death:2005
Pakistan's journalist, writer, poet and political activist.
Hasan Abidi was an ardent believer in progressive thought that he advocated both in his writing and in his career as a political worker and trade unionist. After a long association with Dawn Group of Newspapers, he had ...
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Hamza Danny Thompson
Birth:1939
Death:
A widely known British Jazz musician who converted to Islam.
He has a long musical career playing with a large variety of musicians. Since 1987, he has recorded four solo albums.
Hamza who embraced Islam in 1990 was born in Devon, son of a miner.
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Hamza El Din
Birth:1929
Death:2006
Egyptian musician and composer
Hamza, an oud or 'ud', a short-necked lute with six courses of paired strings traditionally plucked with an eagle-feather quill, played and composed, re-invented the musical culture of Nubia and carried his own style of music worldwide.
In his hypnotic music, ...
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Huda Sultan
Birth:1925
Death:2006
Egyptian actress and singer
Actress and singer Huda Sultan whose career spanned over half a century started as a singer in Egyptian radio and became a superstar in the late 1940s. In 1950, she appeared in her first movie, alongside superstar Farid Shawqi, in 'Sit al-Husn' (...
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Hassan Nasrallah
Birth:1960
Death:
Hypnotic leader of Lebanon's Hizbollah
A captivating figure who inspires fear as much as admiration and comfortably switches from funny, sarcastic comments to fiery speeches, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is the leader of Lebanon's paramilitary organisation, the Hizbollah.
Though he entered politics at 15, when he joined ...
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Hassan Gouled Aptidon
Birth:1916
Death:2006
The first president of Djibouti.
The first president Hassan Gouled Aptidon, who led Djibouti after the country's independence from France in 1977, and who stepped down in 1999, elected in the country's first multiparty presidential elections that year and was re-elected in 2005.
When he entered politics in 1947, ...
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Hasan Ziya Ozbekhan
Birth:1921
Death:2007
Economist who helped found Global Group.
Turkish-born economist and management expert, Hasan Ziya Ozbekhan who helped found the Club of Rome, a group of thinkers who came together to examine unwieldy global problems like food shortages and overpopulation was a forward looking person.
He wrote ...
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Habibullah Mukhtar
Birth:
Death:1941
Author and poet.
The author of 'Tazakirat-us-Swalehin', 'Anwar-ul-Aulia', 'Tahqiq-ul-Kalam fill molad val Qyam', 'Elaj-ul-Imraz' and a few others, Habibullah Mukhtar, was born in Patna, India.
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Hasan Said Karmi
Birth:1905
Death:2007
Palestinian intellectual and broadcaster
One of exile, dispossession, oppression and separation Hasan Sa'id Karmi was a hallmark of Palestinian Arabs who endured sense of loss.
Hasan Karmi lived in Britain for 41 years, working for BBC Arabic Service. As the creator and writer-presenter of a weekly ...
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Hisham Kabbani
Birth:1945
Death:
A promoter of Islam
To promote better understanding of classical Islam, Shaykh Kabbani has hosted two international conferences in the US, both of which drew scholars from around the Muslim world. He is one of those whose intellect is sought after by journalists, academics and ...
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Husein Shaheed Suhrawardy
Birth:1892
Death:1963
H. S. Suhrawardy was the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan, appointed in September 12, 1956. He was born in Midnapore, West Bengal, graduating with honors in Science from St. Caviares College. In 1913, he obtained his Masters degree in Arabic from Calcutta University. He received a B. C. ...
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Haidar Abdel Shafi
Birth:1919
Death:2007
Palestinian nationalist leader
A rare Palestinian leader, physician and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Gaza Haidar Abdel Shafi also helped establish Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).
A soft-spoken but a fiercely independent politician. A man of principles who often went against the Palestinian ...
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Habib Ali Jifri
Birth:1971
Death:
A Sufi Sheikh of Yemen
The founder of the Tabah Foundation for Islamic Studies and Research in the United Arab Emirates, an institution to promote the study of traditional Islamic sciences, Sheikh al-Jifri has also penned a treatise on the nature of Islam's relationship with ...
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Humera Khan
Birth:
Death:
Britain's activist.
A British of Pakistani descent, Humera Khan has long served as a leading activist and educator for the Muslim community in Britain.
Co-founder of the An-Nisa Society, a family association operating in Britain, Humera has worked on issues ranging from race relations to ...
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Hany Abdel Gawad El Banna
Birth:1950
Death:
The founder of Islamic Relief.
The founder and president of the largest Western-based international Muslim relief development, Islamic Relief, Dr El-Banna's mission is to help people in need.
Islamic Relief was established in 1984 in Birmingham, England, after Dr. El-Banna, a pathologist by education, visited refugee ...
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Hassan Sheikh Mumin
Birth:1931
Death:2008
Somali poet and playwright.
One of the major forces behind the golden age of Somali theatre - mid-1960s to mid-1970s - was the poet and playwright Hassan Sheikh Mumin.
Hassan joined the political movement of independence in the early 1950s and composed his ...
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Hanan Tork
Birth:1975
Death:
Actress cum worldwide ambassador for international charity.
Although a veteran of countless hit films and an object of admiration for millions of fans stretching from North Africa to the Gulf peninsula Hanan Tork (also known El Turk) Egyptian film star of Turkish descent also devotes ...
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Habiba Sarabi
Birth:1956
Death:
Afghanistan's heroine of the environment.
Laying down the environment law, Habiba Sarabi, the Governor of the province of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, is determined to reverse the damage suffered by the province and to turn the place into Afghanistan's icon of environmental oasis.
Trying to preserve the ...
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Habib Tanvir
Birth:1923
Death:2009
India's noted playwright and theatre director
Eminent playwright and theatre director Habib Tanvir who drew inspiration from varied sources including classical Sanskrit and the folk theatre of India's villages was a theatre legend in India.
He founded the 'Naya Theatre Company' in 1959. Tanvir mixed indigenous ...
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Hazrat Mahal
Birth:1820 -
Death:
A dancing girl who became a queen.
A dancing girl, who caught the eye of Wajid Ali Shah, entered the royal harem and became a queen. Wajid Ali Shah was the king of Awadh, which was then a large part of the current state of ...
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Hasan Di Tiro
Birth:1925
Death:2010
The founder of the Indonesian rebel group.
The founder of rebel group the Free Aceh Movement, Hasan di Tiro fought Jakarta a three-decade war of independence until he eventually disbanded the faction under a peace accord in 2005.
A major figure in the establishment of the ...
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Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe
Birth:1947
Death:
A courageous lady inspiring hope and prosperity.
The founder of healthcare establishment in Somalia and running and operating a private hospital, Dr. Hawa Abdi is a living hero.
Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation is a vast 1,300-acre complex where her generosity spread and the needy people ...
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Hadia Tajik
Birth:1983
Death:
Norwegian politician of Pakistani origin
The youngest and the first ever-Muslim minister in the Norwegian Cabinet is Hadia Tajik of Pakistani origin, heading Norway's culture portfolio. She announced that her programme would focus on cultural diversity as part of the Norwegian people's daily lives and ...
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Hassan Rouhani
Birth:1948
Death:
An Iranian politician, Shia Mujtahid, lawyer, academic and diplomat, who is currently the president of Iran.
A senior cleric with impeccable revolutionary credentials Hassan Rouhani, who won his election as President of Iran, in 2013, has been an advisor to the Iran's supreme leader and held ...
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Haifaa Al Mansour
Birth:1974
Death:
A film director from Saudi Arabia
One of the country's best-known and most controversial film director, Haifaa al-Monsour is the first female Saudi filmmaker. Hailed as trailblazer for the Saudi women her film Wadjda was submitted in the best foreign language category of the 2014 Oscars ...
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Harun Farocki
Birth:1944
Death:2014
A German filmmaker
An avant-garde German filmmaker and video artiste Harun Farocki's work examined the ways images are used to inform, instruct, persuade and propagandise.
He made more than 100 films, many of them short experimental documentaries that explored contemporary life, and what he saw as ...
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Hamid Gul
Birth:1936
Death:2015
Pakistan's former spy chief.
An influential three-star general Hamid Gul served as the head of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's spy agency, from 1987 to 1989.
The General was deeply involved in his country's policy towards neighbouring Afghanistan when Soviet troops were withdrawing from that country. He was sincerely ...
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Hocine Aït-Ahmed
Birth:1926
Death:2015
Acclaimed Algerian leader
A leader of the Algerian war of independence against France that began in 1954, and a major opponent of the Algerian governments dominated by the military since then Hocine Aït-Ahmed spent decades in exile in Switzerland.
He was a founder of the ...
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Hafez Muhammad Patel
Birth:1926
Death:2016
A persona of piety.
The former head of the Tablighi Jamaat movement in Britain Hafez Muhammad Patel was a pioneer and a visionary in terms of Islamic identity and of the Muslim community in the UK.
He came to Dewsbury, England, in 1960 and established Dewsbury ...
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