List of Punjabi Muslims
Appearance
Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.
Army officers and soldiers
- Khudadad Khan, 1st Indian soldier to earn the Victoria Cross during World War I
- Shahamad Khan, Recipient of Victoria Cross during World War I
- General Tikka Khan, 1st Chief of the Pakistan Army
- General Asif Nawaz Janjua, 4th Chief of the Pakistan Army
- General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, 8th Chief of the Pakistan Army
- General Raheel Sharif, 9th Chief of the Pakistan Army
- General Qamar Javed Bajwa, 10th Chief of the Pakistan Army
Rulers, Nobles and Chieftains
- Hussein Langah, Sultan of Multan.[1]
- Khizr Khan, Sultan of Delhi.[2]
- Muzaffar Shah, Sultan of Gujarat.[3][4]
- Muzaffar Jang, Nizam of Hyderabad.[5]
- Sadullah Khan, Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire.[6]
- Wazir Khan.[7]
- Shahbaz Khan Kamboh.[8]
- Shaikh Gadai Kamboh.
- Adina Beg Arain.[9]
- Mohammad Khan Kamboh.[10]
- Sayyid Hassan Ali Khan Barha.[11]
- Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan Barha.[11]
- Malik Mustafa Jasrat Khokhar.
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
- Ahmed Khan Kharal - a rebel leader in West Punjab in 1857 Rebellion
- Maulana Shah Abdul Qadir Ludhianvi - a rebel leader in East Punjab in 1857 Rebellion
- Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi - one of the founders of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
- Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi - founder of Khaksar movement
- Nizam Lohar
Poets & Writers
Punjabi Language
- Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188-1266)
- Shah Hussain (1539-1599)
- Sultan Bahu (1630-1691)
- Bulleh Shah (1680-1757)
- Waris Shah (1722–1798)
- Lutf Ali (1716–1794)
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1845–1901)
- Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (1830-1907)
- Munir Niazi (1923-2006)
Urdu
- Hafeez Jalandhari - Author of the National Anthem of Pakistan
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal - National Poet of Pakistan
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
- Saadat Hasan Manto
- Zafar Ali Khan
- Ashfaq Ahmed
- Anwar Masood
References
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- ^ Eaton, Richard M. (2019-07-25). India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765. Penguin UK. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-14-196655-7.
- ^ BK 838 -Mirat I Ahmadi A History Of Gujarat. 1965-06-03. p. 66.
- ^ Wink, André (2003-11-15). Al-Hind, Volume 3 Indo-Islamic Society, 14th- 15th Centuries. Brill. p. 143. ISBN 978-90-474-0274-9.
- ^ Beveridge H. (1952). The Maathir Ul Umara Vol-ii (1952). The Calcutta Oriental Press Ltd. pp. 647, 648.
- ^ Journal of Central Asia. Centre for the Study of the Civilizations of Central Asia, Quaid-i-Azam University. 1992. p. 84.
- ^ Beveridge H. (1952). The Maathir Ul Umara Vol-ii (1952). The Calcutta Oriental Press Ltd. p. 981.
- ^ "Shahbaz Khan - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ^ Gujral, Maninder S. (2000-12-19). "ADINA BEG KHAN". The Sikh Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ^ Nevill, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India Henry Riven (2015-01-01). District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1904. Facsimile Publisher. p. 87.
- ^ a b Kolff, Dirk H. A. (2002-08-08). Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52305-9.