Āzād Bilgrāmī, Ghulām ʿAlī

by Malik, Jamal

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Sayyid Ghulām ʿAlī Āzād Bilgrāmī (d. 1200/1786) was a major biographer of Muslim scholars, historiographers, and functionary elite in South Asia. He was born on 20 Ṣafar 1116/24 June 1704, in the flourishing qaṣba (garrison “town”) of Bilgram, in Awadh, North India. He claimed, as a sayyid , descent from the Prophet and belonged to the Ḥanafī school of Sunnī Islam, which prevails throughout North India. In 1150/1737–8 he performed the ḥajj , and he studied ḥadīth at the feet of renowned scholar…

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Sayyid Ghulām ʿAlī Āzād Bilgrāmī (d. 1200/1786) was a major biographer of Muslim scholars, historiographers, and functionary elite in South Asia. He was born on 20 Ṣafar 1116/24 June 1704, in the flourishing qaṣba (garrison “town”) of Bilgram, in Awadh, North India. He claimed, as a sayyid , descent from the Prophet and belonged to the Ḥanafī school of Sunnī Islam, which prevails throughout North India. In 1150/1737–8 he performed the ḥajj , and he studied ḥadīth at the feet of renowned scholars such as Muḥammad Ḥayāt al-

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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eng Islam

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Malik, Jamal

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