Abaqati family
The Abaqati family (or Khandān-e-Abaqāat) is a sub-branch of the of Jarwal-Kintoor branch of Nishapuri Kazmi-Musavi Sayeds who trace their lineage to Prophet Muhammad through eldest son of great-grandson of Imam Musa Kazim, he was given jagir in Jarwal-Kintoor by Sultan Muhammad Tughluq, other two were given jagir in Budgam, Kashmir and Sylhut, Bengal.[1]
The most famous of Kintoori Sayyeds is Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Saheb-e-Abaqaat, author of a 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.[2] 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.[2] 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.[3][4] After their arrival in Kintoor the Saiyids were given a 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.[5] 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.[6][7]
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.[8]
Personalities
- Muhammad Quli (1775-1844), principal Sadr Amin at the British court in Meerut; author of Tathir al-mu'minin 'an najasat al-mushrikin[9][10][11][12]
- Hamid Hussain Musavi (1830-1880), son of Syed Muhammad Quli author of book Abaqat ul Anwar fi Imamat al Ai'imma al-Athar[13][2][9][10][14][15][16]
- Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati , a Lucknow based cleric; son of Syed Mohammad Saeed Saeed-ul-Millat
See also
References
- ^ "Gulistan e ilmo Adab with guest Maulana Agha Roohi and Host Naseer Azmi". 10 April 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ a b c Islam, politics, and social movements By Edmund Burke, Ervand Abrahamian, Ira M. Lapidus
- ^ Muhammad ‘Ali Kashmiri, Nujumas-sama ' fi tarajimal-‘ulama ' (Lucknow: Matbac-i Jacfari, 1302/1884-85), p. 420.
- ^ 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
- ^ Piety on its knees: three Sufi traditions in South Asia in modern times, Claudia Liebeskind, Oxford University Press, 18-Dec-1998
- ^ Sufi cults and the evolution of medieval Indian culture, Anup Taneja, Indian Council of Historical Research in association with Northern Book Centre, 2003
- ^ Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism By Justin Jones
- ^ King Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, Volume 1 by Mirza Ali Azhar, Royal Book Co., 1982
- ^ a b Scholarship in a sayyid family of Avadh I: Musavī Nīshāpūrī of Kintūr
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Sacred Space and Holy War The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine by Juan Cole, I.B.Tauris Publishers, London · New York
- ^ Dar al-Kitab Jazayeri[permanent dead link]
- ^ Abaqat ul Anwar fi Imamat al Ai'imma al-Athar
- ^ Leader of Heaven Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine #18
- ^ Mir Hamid Hussain and his famous piece Abaqat al-anwar
- ^ 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.
External
- Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism, by Justin Jones