Maḥmūdābād family - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Maḥmūdābād family - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Robinson, Francis

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062676
Doc. NO	:	ALei3073
Main Entry	:	Robinson, Francis
Title & Author	:	Maḥmūdābād family - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Robinson, Francis
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,915 words)
Abstract	:	The Maḥmūdābād family was a leading landed family of North India that was prominent in public life under the Mughals, the nawwāb s (an honorific title for semi-autonomous Muslim rulers of princely states) of Awadh, and the British. These Ṣiddīqī shaykh s trace their descent from the first caliph, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (d. 13/634), through Naṣrallāh, a qāḍī of Baghdad, who is said to have come in the seventh/thirteenth century to India, where his descendants were qāḍī s of Delhi. In the eighth/fourteenth century, Qāḍī
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3073.pdf