Abaqati family

The Abaqati family (or Khandān-e-Abaqāt) is one branch of the Nishapuri Kintoori Sayyids. The most famous of Kintoori Sayyids is Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi, author of work entitled Abaqat al Anwar; the first word in the title of this work provided his descendants with the nisba (title) they still bear, Abaqati.[1] Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Agha Roohi, a Lucknow based cleric is from the family of Nishapuri Kintoori Sayyids and uses title Abaqati.

Origin

The Nishapuri Sada'at (Sayeds) of Barabanki (adjoining areas of Kintoor, Fatehpur, Jarwal and Lucknow) are Kazmi or Musavi Sayeds; that is they claim descent from the Prophet through his daughter's line and the line of the seventh Imam of the Shi'a Muslims, Musa al-Kazem. They came in India originally from Nishapur a town near Mashhad in northeastern Iran.[1] Two brothers Sayed Sharafu'd-Din Abu Talib (who was the ancestor of Waris 'Ali) and Sayed Muhammed in thirteenth century forsaked Nishapur, Iran (via Khorasan and Mashhad) for Awadh, India in the time of Hulagu Khan (1256-1265) the Il-Khanid Mongol ruler.[2][3] After their arrival in Kintoor the Saiyids were givena large jagir by Sultan Muhammad Tughluq, where they continued to hold the land in different tenures until twentieth century at the turn of which they held two-thirds of the village land of Kintoor.[4] Sayed Alauddin Kazmi have said to be accompanied these two brothers in their movement from Iran, he later moved to Tehsil Fatehpur. The grave of Sayed Alauddin Kazmi is situated in Kintoor. The Kazmis of Fatehpur are his descendants. These Nishapuri Sayeds of Kintoor spread to adjoining localities of Barabanki e.g. Fatehpur, and even to neighbouring districts e.g. Jarwal in Bahraich district and in Lucknow. These Nishapuri Sayeds produced several outstanding Shia Muslim religious scholars in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.[5][6]

Sayeds of Kintoor can be categorized in two prominent families, namely, Abaqati (that of Sayed Hamid Hussain) and Khomeini (that of Sayed Ahmed).

Sayyids of Jarwal (Bahraich), Kintoor (Barabanki) and Zaidpur (Barabanki) were wellknown Taluqadars (feudal lords) of Awadh province.[7]

Personalities

in fourteenth century forsaken Iran for Awadh in the time of Hulagu the II-Khanid Mongol ruler. The Nishapuri Sayyids of Kintoor produced several outstanding Shi‘i religious scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[1][8]
in fourteenth century forsaken Iran for Awadh in the time of Hulagu the II-Khanid Mongol ruler. The Nishapuri Sayyids of Kintoor produced several outstanding Shi‘i religious scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[1][8]
principal Sadr Amin at the British court in Meerut. He was also author of Tathir al-mu'minin 'an najasat al-mushrikin.[9][8][10][11]
author of books Kashf al-hujub wa'l-astar `an al-kutub wa'l-asfar; A'inah-'i haqq-nama; Shudhur al-`iqyan fi tarajim al-a`yan, 2 vols. A'inah," a primary source is Kintoori's biographical dictionary of Shi‘i ulama, an extremely useful source, remains in manuscript and has not been used by writers on Imami Shi‘ism in the West.[8][10][12]
son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Kintoori, he was author of Kashf al-ḥujub wa-l-astār ʿan asmāʾ al-kutub wa-l-asfār, Shudhūr al-ʿiqyān fī tarājim al-aʿyān and Āʾīna-yi ḥaqq-numā.[9]
son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Kintoori, he worked in the British judiciary and administration and was one of the first Shiʿi ʿulamāʾ to engage with the new learning in English and translated works of science in Persian and Urdu. He was also associated with Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.[9]
son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Kintoori author of book Abaqat ul Anwar fi Imamat al Ai'imma al-Athar.[1][9][8][13][14][15]
son of Syed Iʿjāz Ḥusayn, he became a pioneer encouraging the education of girls in the next generation as one of the key responses to the shock of the loss of power and prestige with the advent of formal empire after 1857. He also served as a professor of law at Aligarh. He was founder of Karamat College, Lucknow.[9][16][17][18]
was a religious scholar (a Mujtahid), a physician, a pharmacologist and an alchemist.[19] He was the author of the book Miatain fi Maqtalil Husain[20] and Qanun-e-Shaikh bu 'Ali Sina.[21] He was married to Hamid Hussain's sister.[6]
a marja'ul-taqlid and a mujtahid of most North Indian Shias was son of Hamid Hussain. He was peshnamaz (leader) of Kufa mosque, Lucknow.[6]
a mujtahid of most North Indian Shias (until after independence of India when he got involved in politics and asked his muqallids to follow Najaf mutahids, particularly to Ayatollah Seyyed Mohsin Al-Hakim) was son of Nasir Husain Nasir-ul-Millat.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Islam, politics, and social movements By Edmund Burke, Ervand Abrahamian, Ira M. Lapidus
  2. ↑ Muhammad ‘Ali Kashmiri, Nujumas-sama ' fi tarajimal-‘ulama ' (Lucknow: Matbac-i Jacfari, 1302/1884-85), p. 420.
  3. ↑ A Socio-intellectual History of the Isnā ʾAsharī Shīʾīs in India: 16th to 19th century A.D, Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1986
  4. ↑ Piety on its knees: three Sufi traditions in South Asia in modern times, Claudia Liebeskind, Oxford University Press, 18-Dec-1998
  5. ↑ Sufi cults and the evolution of medieval Indian culture, Anup Taneja, Indian Council of Historical Research in association with Northern Book Centre, 2003
  6. 1 2 3 4 Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism By Justin Jones
  7. ↑ King Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, Volume 1 by Mirza Ali Azhar, Royal Book Co., 1982
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Roots of North Indian Shi‘ism in Iran and Iraq Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859, by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Scholarship in a sayyid family of Avadh I: Musavī Nīshāpūrī of Kintūr
  10. 1 2 Sacred Space and Holy War The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam by Juan Cole, I.B.Tauris Publishers, London · New York
  11. ↑ Dar al-Kitab Jazayeri
  12. ↑ The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Islamic Sciences, Bihar al-Anwar
  13. ↑ Leader of Heaven #18
  14. ↑ Mir Hamid Hussain and his famous piece Abaqat al-anwar
  15. ↑ GHADEER-E-KHUM WHERE THE RELIGION WAS BROUGHT TO PERFECTION By I.H. Najafi, Published By A GROUP OF MUSLIM BROTHERS, NEW ADDRESS P. 0. Box No. 11365- 1545, Tehran – IRAN.
  16. ↑ About Karamat College
  17. ↑ A brief history of Karamat College
  18. ↑ Uttar Pradesh district gazetteers, Volume 42, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, 1988
  19. ↑ Dictionary of Indo-Persian literature By Nabi Hadi, #199
  20. ↑ Hazrat Abbas (A.S.) and the Infallible Imams (A.S.), Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (a.s.) on his uncle Abbas (a.s.)
  21. ↑ An empire of books: the Naval Kishore Press and the diffusion of the printed word in colonial India
  22. ↑ Biography of QUAID-I-MILLAT JAFARIYA, PAKISTAN AGHA SYED HAMID ALI SHAH MOOSAVI by SYED QAMAR HAIDER ZAIDI

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