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List of Punjabi Muslims

Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally, or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.

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  • Khudadad Khan, operated a machine gun despite being wounded after his team was overrun and bayoneted by the Germans, holding them back long enough for reinforcements in the Western Front
  • Shahamad Khan, covered a 150 yard gap at the Tigris Front in Mesopotamia after his men became casualties where he continued to single-handedly repel three counter-attacks
  • Abdul Hafiz, charged at enemy lines in Burma
  • Sher Shah Awan, commanded a platoon ambushed by the Japanese, his leg was shattered but he fought on and crawled at the enemy which he shot at point-blank range
  • Fazal Din, ran through the chest in Burma by a Japanese samurai officer's sword reaching through to his back and proceeded to pull the sword out of his chest and kill the Japanese officer with it

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Adina Beg (1710–1758), last Muslim governor of Punjab

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Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus:

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Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
 
Mahbub ul Haq, widely regarded as one of the greatest economists of the 20th century.[14]

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  1. ^ Fisher, Michael Herbert (2019). A Short History of the Mughal Empire. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-7556-0491-3. Shaikh Gadai Kamboh (a Punjabi whose ancestors had converted to Islam)
  2. ^ "Shahbaz Khan - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  3. ^ Siddiqui, Shabbir A. (1986). "Relations Between Dara Shukoh and Sa'adullah Khan". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 47: 273–276. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44141552.
  4. ^ Nevill, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India Henry Riven (2015-01-01). District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1904. Facsimile Publisher. p. 87.
  5. ^ Gujral, Maninder S. (2000-12-19). "ADINA BEG KHAN". The Sikh Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  6. ^ Mubārak, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn (1891). The Ain I Akbari. Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 321.
  7. ^ Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (2024-03-19). Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4773-2879-8. The latter sultanate was founded by a former Tughluq governor, perhaps from a family of Punjabi Khatri converts, who took the title Muzaffar Shah in the early fifteenth century but reigned for only a short time.
  8. ^ Eaton, Richard M. (2019-07-25). India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765. Penguin UK. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-14-196655-7. The career of Khizr Khan, a Punjabi chieftain belonging to the Khokar clan, illustrates the transition to an increasingly polycentric north India.
  9. ^ Olson, James Stuart; Shadle, Robert (1996). Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 773. ISBN 978-0-313-27917-1. Hyder Ali was originally a Punjabi adventurer in the army of the Hindu king of Mysore.
  10. ^ Dalrymple, William (2019-09-10). The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. Bloomsbury USA. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-63557-395-4. The second power was a new force, which in the 1770s was just emerging and beginning to flex its military muscles: the Mysore Sultanate of Haidar Ali and his formidable warrior son, Tipu Sultan. Haidar, who was of Punjabi origin, had risen in the ranks of the Mysore army, where he introduced many of the innovations he had learned from observing French troops at work in the Carnatic Wars.
  11. ^ Gott, Richard (2022). Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt. Verso Books. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-83976-422-6. Archived from the original on 26 December 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2023. Haidar Ali was an illiterate Punjabi who rose from the ranks of the Mysore army to become its commander.
  12. ^ The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition: Supplement. Brill Archive. 1980-01-01. ISBN 978-90-04-06167-5. Contemporary writers mention him by his honorific title, Ayn-Al Mulk, with the nisba Multani, because he hailed from Multan
  13. ^ Iqtidar Alam Khan (2008). Historical Dictionary of Medieval India. Scarecrow. p. 107. ISBN 9780810864016.
  14. ^ "Inaugural Mahbub ul Haq-Amartya Sen Lecture, UNIGE | Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. January 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
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