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" Anṣārī, Mukhtār Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Hasan, Mushirul
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English
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1060606
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ALei1003
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Hasan, Mushirul
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Anṣārī, Mukhtār Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Hasan, Mushirul
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(721 words)
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Mukhtār Aḥmad Anṣārī (1880–1936) was a medical doctor who gained national prominence as the president of the Indian National Congress (founded in 1885) and the chief protagonist of secular nationalism. He claimed to be a descendant of Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī (d. 52/672), a warrior and a venturesome conqueror who, when fighting across the Bosporus at the age of ninety or more, died and, as he had requested, was buried at Constantinople. M. A. Anṣārī, as he was popularly known, was educated in Ghāzīpūr, the district town close
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Islam.
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ALei1003.pdf
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