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The ancestors of present-day Memons who settled a few centuries ago in various parts of the districts of India, particularly Kathiawar (now Saurashtra), commonly identified as simply Memons. The language of Kathiawadi Memons is Memon , sometimes called Memoni .
The Memon are a Muslim community in Gujarat India, and Sindh, Pakistan, the majority of whom follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. [4] They are divided into different groups based on their origins: Kathiawari Memons, Kutchi Memons and Bantva Memons from the Kathiawar, Kutch and Bantva regions of Gujarat respectively, and Sindhi Memons from Sindh.
The Kathiawari Memons are a sub-group of the Memon people, a Muslim community in India and Pakistan. After the partition of India in 1947, Memons of the Kathiawar region migrated to neighboring states, cities and towns within India, but a large number of Memons settled in Pakistan, Sri Lanka , South Africa , Malawi, Kenya, as well as the United ...
Kathiawari or Kathiawadi may refer to: something of, from, or related to the Kathiawar peninsula in Gujarat, India; Kathiawari dialect, a variety of the Gujarati language; Kathiawari (horse), a horse breed; Kathiawadi cattle, a breed of cow; Kathiawari cuisine, a variety of Gujarati cuisine; Kathiawadi Memons, subgroup of the Memon Muslims from ...
Kathiawari Memons, a sub-group of the Memons, arrived in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the Kathiawar region of Gujarat, India beginning in the 1870s.. Sunni Hanafi Muslims by origin, the Memons are entrepreneurs and traders who settled in Sri Lanka for business opportunities during the colonial period.
This list contains the name of some notable and popularMemons. A. Abdool Razack Mohamed; Abdul Gaffar Billoo; Abdul Rashid Godil; Abdul Razzak Yaqoob; Abdul Sattar Edhi;
Kathiawar ([kɑʈʰijɑʋɑɽ]) is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about 61,000 km 2 (23,500 sq mi) bordering the Arabian Sea.It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat in the east.
The Bantwa Memons are a group of Kathiawadi Memons originating from the town of Bantva, Kathiawar, a former district of the state of Gujarat in India. References