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Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān al-Ḥusaynī al-Bukhārī al-Qannaujī al-Bhopālī (1832–1891) was a prominent Islamic scholar and writer and one of the founding figures of the Ahl-i ḥadīth. He also became politically influential when the widowed ruler of the Princely State of Bhopal, Nawwāb Shāh Jahān Begum (r. 1868–1901), chose him as her second husband.
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The family of Nawwāb Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān claimed their descent from Ḥusayn Ibn ‘Alī, the grandson of the prophet Muḥammad. Thus, they added either “al-Ḥusaynī” or the honorific title Sayyid to their names. One of Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s ancestors, a direct descendant of Ḥusayn, migrated from Medina to Baghdad. Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān’s family became attached to the shrine of Bahā’ ud-Dīn Naqshband (d. 1390), founder of the Naqshbandiyyah Ṣūfī order, after a certain Sayyid Maḥmūd went to Bukhara. Some descendants of Sayyid Maḥmūd left...
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Preckel, C. (2018). Khān, (Nawwāb) Ṣiddīq Ḥasan. In: Kassam, Z.R., Greenberg, Y.K., Bagli, J. (eds) Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_1981
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