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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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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan

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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Compiled by:M. Nauman Khan