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.

Artists

Authors

Punjabi

Classical

Modern

Urdu

Persian

Business

Folklore

Legendary

Military

Air Force

Army

Recipient of Victoria Crosses

Music

Punjabi Folk

Sufi Qawwali

Classical Hindustani Gharanas

Modern Playback

Politicians

United Kingdom

Royalty

Mughal nobility

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

Historical personalities believed to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin

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

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

Scientists and academics

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]

Sportspersons

Association Football

Cricket

Freestyle Wrestling

Weightlifting

Field hockey

See Also

References

  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. ↑ Dhir, Krishna S. (2022-01-01). Urdu: A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 498. ISBN 978-81-208-4301-1. Zafar Khan was a Punjabi...
  8. ↑ Wink, André (2003). Indo-Islamic society: 14th - 15th centuries. BRILL. p. 143. ISBN 978-90-04-13561-1. Similarly, Zaffar Khan Muzaffar, the first independent ruler of Gujarat was not a foreign muslim but a Khatri convert, of low subdivision called Tank, originally from southern Punjab.
  9. ↑ Eaton, Richard M. (2019-07-25). India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-0-14-196655-7. The career of Khizr Khan, a Punjabi chieftain belonging to the Khokar clan...
  10. ↑ Olson, James Stuart; Shadle, Robert (1996). Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-313-27917-1. Hyder Ali was originally a Punjabi adventurer in the army of the Hindu king of Mysore .
  11. ↑ Moon, Penderel (1989). The British Conquest and Dominion of India. Duckworth. ISBN 978-0-253-33836-5. Haidar Ali, a Punjabi by origin
  12. ↑ Dalrymple, William (2019-09-10). The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-63557-395-4. Haidar, who was of Punjabi origin, had risen in the ranks of the Mysore army
  13. ↑ 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
  14. ↑ "Inaugural Mahbub ul Haq-Amartya Sen Lecture, UNIGE | Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
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