Ansari (nesba)
. Not to be confused with Momin Ansari (Indian traditional weaving community).
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Al-Ansari or Ansari is an Arab community, found predominantly in the Arab and South Asian countries. The meaning of the word 'Ansari' is supporter, the community are known as Ansari.
Historically, the community produced the sage, scholars and philosopher. The Ansari are an Urdu-speaking community, although the Ansari clan of Gujarat have Gujarati as their mother tongue.[1]: 984
Notable Ansaris
Medieval
- 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
- 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.
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See also
References
- K. S. Singh, People of India Uttar Pradesh, Volume XLII Part Two. Manohar Publications
Further reading
- Ghazi, Muhammad Tariq Al-Ansari. "Tazkar ul Ansar" (ISBN 1-56316-922-3) Biographical Encyclopedia (2018). Iqra Education Foundation, Mumbai, India (www.iqraindia.org).
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