Farangī Maḥall - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Farangī Maḥall - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Robinson, Francis

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061584
Doc. NO	:	ALei1981
Main Entry	:	Robinson, Francis
Title & Author	:	Farangī Maḥall - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Robinson, Francis
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,994 words)
Abstract	:	Farangī Maḥall was a family of prominent Indian Ḥanafī scholars and mystics who flourished from the twelfth/eighteenth century to the twentieth. The family traces its ancestry through the great scholar and mystic Khwāja ʿAbdallāh Anṣārī of Herat (d. 481/1089) to Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, the Prophet’s host in Medina. It is not known when the family migrated to India but, according to family biographers, one ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn settled in Sihālī, in the Awadh province of north India, during the eighth/fourteenth century. His descendant Mullā Ḥāfiẓ was
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1981.pdf