Shamsul Ulama
Shamsul Ulama (Arabic: شمس العلماء "sun of the scholars") is a religious title that has been taken by or granted to various individuals in India including:
- Maulana Zahoor ul Hussain Farooqui Rampuri, ex Principal of Madrasa Alia Rampur
- Shibli Nomani (1857–1914)[1]
- Maulana Nizamuddeen Allahabadi ex Principle Madarasa Alia Rampur
- Shah Badruddin (1852–after 1920)[2]
- Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (1854–1933), Zoroastrian priest[3]
- Khwaja Kamaluddin Ahmad, first Muslim principal of Calcutta Alia Madrasa
- Safiullah Sarhadi (1870–1948), Islamic preacher, philosopher and teacher
- Abu Nasr Waheed (1878–1953), Bengali Islamic scholar and government minister
- Majid Ali Jaunpuri (died 1935), Indian Islamic scholar and rationalist thinker
- Quazi Shamsuddeen Jaunpuri, writher of Qanoon e Shariat
- Belayet Hossain Birbhumi (1887–1984), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and author
- Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898–1959), Bengali Islamic schoar, politician and journalist
- Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and author
- E. K. Aboobacker Musliar (1914–1996), leader of Kerala Muslims
- Mohammad Abdul Jalil Usmani, 1897, Professor Arabic and Persian, Religious scholar.
References
[edit]- ↑ Short Islamic Encyclopedia. Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. pp. 383, 384.
- ↑ Jawaid Alam Government and Politics in Colonial Bihar, 1921-1937 - - 2004 Page 226 "... awarded the title of Shamsul Ulama in 1915 by the British; first alim to renounce the title Shamsul Ulama at the call of Gandhi in September 1920. Sharfuddin, Syed Muhammad (1856-1921); belonged to the famous Shia family of Neora; .."
- ↑ "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica".
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