Al-Ansari or Ansari is an Arab community, found predominantly in the Arab and South Asian countries. They are descended from the Ansar of Madinah. The Ansari are an Urdu-speaking community, although the Ansari clan of Gujarat have Gujarati as their mother tongue.[1]: 984
الأنصار | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Arab world, Turkey, South Asia, Iran | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic, Turkish, Gujarati, Urdu, Persian, Hindi | |
| Religion | |
| Islam |
History edit
The Ansaris are the descendants of the Ansar tribe of Madinah. They are found through the middle east and south Asia. The Ansaris that are still living today in Arabia have migrated to other places such as Qatar, Bahrain and other parts of Saudi Arabia. The people of the Ansari tribe that are in South Asia are few in number. They arrived there when the son of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari took part in the Muslim conquest of Khorasan and settled in Herat.[2] They are descended from the Sufi saint Abdullah Ansari and migrated to India in 1526 under the Mughal Sultan Babur.[3] Some Ansari settlements in south Asia can be found in, Yusufpur, Saharanpur, Lucknow Firangi Mahal and Kakori.[4]
Notable Ansaris edit
Medieval edit
- Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a prominent companion of Muhammad
- Ansari ( other companions of Muhammad)
- Sa'id ibn Aws al-Ansari (died 830), Arab linguist and narrator of hadith
- Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (d.767), Hanafi Muslim Jurist and scholar
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013), also known as Albucasis, Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus
- Alāʾ al‐Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ansari (1304–1375), also known as Ibn al-Shatir, prominent Arab astronomer and instruments maker.
- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006–1088), Perso-Arab mystic and poet, and one of the descendants of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
- Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), Syrian Arab geographer
- Zakariyya al-Ansari (1420–1520), Egyptian Sufi mystic
Modern edit
- Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari, scholar and descendant of Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, the descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
- Morteza Ansari (1781–1864), Shia jurist from Dezful, Iran
- Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari (1879–1946), Indian freedom fighter, Hero of the Silken Letters Movement-1904-1916, diplomat, jurist, political scientist Deoband-India, Kabul-Afghanistan, Ankara-Turkey.
- Abidullah Ghazi, (1936-), Indian-American Academician, syllabus developer, author, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, (1839–1905). Indian Islamic scholar, jurist, academician, freedom fighter in 1857 War of Independence. Gangoh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- Abdulrahman al-Ansary, (b. 1935), Saudi Arabian archaeologist.
- Hamid Ansari is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who was the 12th vice president of India from 2007 to 2017.[5]
- Mukhtar Ansari is a convicted Indian gangster and politician from Uttar Pradesh.[5]
Naats in Islam edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ K. S. Singh, People of India Uttar Pradesh, Volume XLII Part Two. Manohar Publications
- ^ Seerat Mezban e Rasool (SAW) Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansari (R.A) By: Talib Hashmi, Lahore; Taha pub; 2005
- ^ "Ghazipur: A Gazetteer, being Volume XXIX of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh". INDIAN CULTURE.
- ^ "ANSARIS OF YUSUFPUR". 10 November 2013 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Mahmud Ansari 2013 https://archive.org/details/ANSARISOFYUSUFPUR
Further reading edit
- Ghazi, Muhammad Tariq Al-Ansari. "Tazkar ul Ansar" (ISBN 1-56316-922-3) Biographical Encyclopedia (2018). Iqra Education Foundation, Mumbai, India (www.iqraindia.org).