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Ali Sikandar (6 April 1890 – 9 September 1960), known by his pen name as Jigar Moradabadi, was an Indian Urdu poet and ghazal writer. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958 for his poetry collection "Atish-e-Gul", and was the second poet (after Mohammad Iqbal) to be awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the Aligarh Muslim University.
Shingara, better known as Sultan Sikandar Shah Miri (Kashmiri: سلطان سِکَندَر شَاہ میٖرِی, Persian: سلطان سکندر شاہ مِیرِی ), also by his sobriquet Sikandar Butshikan (lit. Sikandar the Iconoclast) [1] was the seventh Sultan of Kashmir and a member of Shah Mir dynasty who ruled from 1389 until his death ...
Annemarie Schimmel has suggested that Shah Mir belonged to a family from Swat which accompanied the sage Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani and were associated to the Kubrawiya, a Sufi group in Kashmir. [2] He worked to establish Islam in Kashmir and was aided by his descendant rulers, specially Sikandar Butshikan. He reigned for three years and five ...
Ali Shah Miri (Kashmiri and Persian: علی شاہ میری) also known as Ali Shah (Persian: علی شاہ) was eighth Sultan of Kashmir from 1413 to 1418 and then again from 1419 to 1420. Ali Shah belonged to the Shah Mir dynasty and was succeeded by his younger brother Zain-ul-Abidin .
Mishkat, Jalalayn, Tafsir al-Baydawi and translation of the Quran were also studied here. Later from Maulana Hussain Ali, a resident of Wan Bhachran, learned Qur'an exegesis from him and on his instructions made a journey to Darul Uloom Deoband and studied most literature books there. Maulana Rasul Khan Hazarvi took the entrance exam.
Shahi Khan was given the charge of the sultanate, when his elder brother, Ali Shah, left on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It was at this time that Ali Shah gave Shahi Khan the title of Zayn al-Abidin (ornament of worshippers). Although a religious man, Ali Shah was weak-willed and his desire to attain Mecca buckled under descriptions of the arduous ...
The Adina Mosque, once the largest mosque in the subcontinent, built by Sikandar Shah in Hazrat Pandua.. The ancestors of Ilyas Shah originated from Sistan, and according to Syed A M R Haque, arrived to the subcontinent as Muslim missionaries and the family were granted jagirs in Bengal in the year 1227.
Adina Mosque, once the largest mosque in South Asia, was established in Pandua by Sikandar Shah.. Sikandar Shah assumed the throne after the death of his father. He continued to consolidate and expand the territory of the Bengal Sultanate, which had emerged as one of the leading powers in the Indian subcontinent.