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Sir Mummad Iqbal was elected president of the Muslim League in 1930 at its session in Allahabad as well as for the session in Lahore in 1932. In his Allahabad Address on 29 December 1930, Iqbal outlined a vision of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern India. This address later inspired the Pakistan movement.
The Muslim World League (MWL; Arabic: رابطة العالم الإسلامي, romanized: Rābiṭat al-ʿĀlam al-ʾIslāmī) is an international Islamic non-governmental organization based in Mecca, Saudi Arabia that promotes what "it" calls the true message of Islam by advancing moderate values. [1] [2] [3] [4]
World War I begins. The Ottoman Empire enters the war allied with Germany. 1914-1918: Ottoman Empire carries out genocides of several communities, such as Assyrian Christians. [5] 200,000 to 275,000 were killed. [6] [7] About half of the Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire perished. [8] 1914: Egypt becomes a British protectorate.
The Awami Muslim League was established as the Bengali alternative to the domination of the Muslim League in Pakistan. The party quickly gained massive popular support in East Pakistan , and eventually led the forces of Bengali nationalism in the struggle against West Pakistan 's military and political establishment.
The mosque, run by the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam, was open to all Muslims, published the Moslemische Revue (Muslim Review) between 1924 and 1940, and its first Imam, Maulana Sadr-ud-Din, wrote the first German translation of the Quran in cooperation with the German convert Hugo Marcus. [4] This translation was published in 1939. [5]
In that year, the Muslim League, led by Jinnah, passed the Lahore Resolution, demanding a separate nation for Indian Muslims. During the Second World War, the League gained strength while leaders of the Congress were imprisoned, and in the provincial elections held shortly after
By 1914, the support received by the Ottoman caliph by Muslims abroad had led Germany to consider the caliph as the leader of the Muslim world. [22] German officials encouraged the Ottomans, through Mehmed's position as caliph, to declare jihad in order to support the war effort, hoping to encourage Muslim uprisings in lands held by the Entente.
The leaders of the Muslim League, 1940. Jinnah is seated at centre. The roots of Pakistani nationalism lie in the separatist campaign of the Muslim League in British India, which sought to create a new state for Indian Muslims called Pakistan, on the basis of Islam. [4]