Ansaris
الأنصار
Regions with significant populations
Arab world, Turkey, South Asia, Iran
Languages
Arabic, Turkish, Gujarati, Urdu, Persian, Hindi
Religion
Islam

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

History

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

Medieval

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.
  • 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

See also

References

  1. K. S. Singh, People of India Uttar Pradesh, Volume XLII Part Two. Manohar Publications
  2. Seerat Mezban e Rasool (SAW) Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansari (R.A) By: Talib Hashmi, Lahore; Taha pub; 2005
  3. "Ghazipur: A Gazetteer, being Volume XXIX of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh". INDIAN CULTURE.
  4. "ANSARIS OF YUSUFPUR". 10 November 2013 via Internet Archive.
  5. 1 2 Mahmud Ansari 2013 https://archive.org/details/ANSARISOFYUSUFPUR

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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