Bukhari, also spelled as Bokhari, Bukhary or Bukhori, is a common surname in South Asia and in the Muslim world, meaning "from Bukhara".
The surname Al-Zaidi (Az-Zaidi) can denote one or both of the following:
Sayyid is an honorific title of Hasanids and Husaynids Muslims, recognized as descendants of the Islamic prophet's companion, Ali through his sons, Hasan and Husayn.
Grand Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Nasirabadi, also known as Naqqan Sahib, was a Twelver Shia Marja, poet, writer, jurist and Quranic interpreter. His notable Urdu works include Shaheed-e-Insaniyat and Tareekh-e-Islam. He also wrote a translation and commentary of the Quran, in addition to dozens of books in Arabic.
Ahl-i-Hadith or Ahl-e-Hadith is a Salafi reform movement that emerged in North India in the mid-nineteenth century from the teachings of Sayyid Ahmad Shahid, Syed Nazeer Husain and Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan. It is an offshoot of the 19th-century Indian Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya movement tied to the 18th-century traditions of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi and the Wahhabi movement. The adherents of the movement described themselves variously as "Muwahideen" and as "Ahl e-Hadith."
Sayyid Dildar 'Ali, also known as Ghufran-Ma'ab Naseerabadi, was a Shia scholar of India, from the village of Nasirabad, Raibareli in Uttar Pradesh, India. His best-known work is "Imad-ul-Islâm", in Arabic, a refutation of the anti-Shia arguments used by the famous Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.
The Shia clergy are the religious leaders of Shia Islam. Shia Islam places great importance on the guidance of clergy, and each branch of Shi'ism maintains its own clerical structure. The most well-known Shia clergy belongs to the largest branch of Shia Islam, Twelver Shi'ism. As in other branches of Islam, Shia scholars are collectively known as the ulema. Individual clerics are referred to as mullah or ākhūnd, but because those terms have developed "a somewhat pejorative connotation" since at least the 1980s, the term rūḥānī has been "promoted" as an alternative, "especially by the clerical class itself".
The Sultan ul Madaris Urdu: سُلطان المدارس; is a Shia Islamic Madrasa for higher religious education in Lucknow, India. Major course of studies include Jurisprudence, Theology and Islamic Literature.
Najm al-Ḥasan, also known as Najmul Millat or Najmul Ulama, was an Islamic jurist and the founder of Jamia Nazmia, the oldest Shia religious institution of India.
Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi also known as Ayatullah Aqeel-ul-Gharavi is a leading Indian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, thinker, writer, poet, educationist, community activist, critic and a mujtahid. Presently, Aqeel-ul-Gharavi is acknowledged as one of the famous and senior Shia scholars from the Indian Subcontinent. He was the principal of Hawza-e-Ilmia Jamia-tus-Saqalain, Delhi and is the current chairman of Safinatul Hidaya Trust, India. He is the vice-President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. In addition to all of these, he also serves as patron of Imamia Islamic University, Delhi and secretary of Forum of Philosophers, India.
Grand Ayatollah Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi was a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja. Muhammad Hussain Najafi was running a Hawza in Sargodha. Najafi was included in all the editions of "The Muslim 500: The World's Most Influential Muslims" since 2010. He is one of the nine marja's mentioned in the most recent edition.
Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri was an Islamic scholar, saint, and preacher in South Asia. He founded the Aminia branch of the Sunni Naqshbandi order. He preached Islam in South Asia and brought non-Muslims into the fold of Islam. His adherents call themselves Naqshbandi mujadadi amini or Maharvi or just Naqshbandi, since Syed Channan Shah belonged to the Naqshbandi order.
Wali Kirani was a Muslim saint. His date of birth and date of death are not known, but is believed to have lived around the time of Sultan Hussain Mirza's rule in Herat around 1470.
Syed Mohammad Waris Hasan Naqvi Nasirabadi was a Shia Muslim cleric from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
The Sadaat Amroha or Amrohi Sayyid or Sayyid of Amroha are a community of Sayyids, historically settled in the town of Amroha, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Many members of the community migrated to Pakistan after independence and settled in Karachi, Sindh, Bewal - Rawalpindi - through Syed Dewan Shah Abdul Baqi Guzri Bewali bin Syed Abdul Wahid Guzri (Amroha) some descendants of whom settled in Azad Kashmir, from which some now also reside in the United Kingdom.
Nasirabad is a Nagar panchayat and a Gram Sabha in Chhatoh Block, Raebareli district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was declared a Nagar Panchayat in 2017. Located southeast of Jais on the road to Salon, Nasirabad is an old town partly built on an elevated area that covers the ruins of an ancient fort. It is one of the main Muslim centres in the district. Muslims make up about half the town's population, and the Shia and Sunni communities are both prominent. As of 2011, Nasirabad's population is 13,648, in 2,243 households. It is located 37 km from Raebareli the district headquarters. It is the headquarters of a nyaya panchayat that also includes 6 other villages.
Ayatollah Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi, born 1970 is one of the ayatollahs of Pakistan. His father, Allama Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi, was the principal of Hawza Elmiye Jamia-tul-Muntazar Lahore, the largest Shia madrasah in Pakistan.
Syed Sibte Hasan Naqvi was a Shia cleric from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was known by the title of Khatib-E-Azam.
The Ijtihadi family is sub-branch of the Naqvis#Naqvis of Darul Ijtihad Jais, Nasirabad and Parshadepur Raebareli. The family uses last name "Naqvi" to denote that they are descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through the lineage of the Imam Ali al-Naqi.
