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Ahsan Manzil (Bengali: আহসান মঞ্জিল) is a palace located in the Kumartoli area beside Buriganga River of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was formerly the residence and seat of the Nawab of Dhaka and has been designated an Old Dhaka Heritage Site . [ 3 ]
The family was proprietary of the Dhaka Nawab estate, seated at Ahsan Manzil palace. "Nawab of Dhaka" was the title of the head of the family from 1843. Khwaja Alimullah was the first holder of the title, and Khwaja Abdul Ghani was the first Nawab of Dhaka when the title was made hereditary by Queen Victoria.
Abdul Ghani was a great patron of the arts of the baijees, the hereditary dancing girls introduced to Bengal by Wajid Ali Shah, the Nawab of Awadh. Baijees, known as the Tawaif in Northern India, danced a special form of Kathak focused at popular entertainment along with singing mostly in the form of Thumri .
Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda Sabil-Kuttab of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda ( Arabic : سبيل وكتاب عبدالرحمن كتخدا ) is a historic monument in the historic district of Cairo , Egypt . It comprises a public fountain or sabil , an elementary Quran school or kuttab , and an adjacent residential wing.
Khwaja Alimullah (died 24 August 1854) was the first Nawab of Dhaka.He was the founder of the Dhaka Nawab family. [2]Alimullah was the nephew and heir of the merchant prince Khwaja Hafizullah, son of Khwaja Ahsanullah, and father of Khwaja Abdul Ghani, the first Nawab of Dhaka to be recognised by the British Raj.
Abd al-Rahman was the son of Mu'awiya, son of Hisham, son of Abd al-Malik, according to Abd el-Wahid Merrakechi when reciting his ancestry. [34] Abd al-Rahman's mother was a member of the Nafza Berbers with whom he found refuge after the murder of his family in 750. [35] Abd al-Rahman married a Spanish Sephardi woman named Hulal.
In 1935/1354AH, al-Sa'di completed his 8 volume complete tafsir of the Qur'an, entitled Taysir al-Kareem al-Rahman. [20] Taysir al-Kareem al-Rahman has been described as arguably one of the most popular tafsirs written by modern salafi scholars. [3] In 1941/1360AH, al-Sa'di established a public library in Unayzah with funds provided by the ...
Habib Abdurahman bin Abdullah Al-Habsyi, father of Habib Ali Kwitang. Ali bin Abdurrahman al-Habshi, better known as Habib Ali of Kwitang or Habib Ali Kwitang (Arabic: علي بن عبدالرحمن الحبشي, Arabic pronunciation: [ʕali: bin ʕbdul rahman al ħabʃiy]; April 20, 1870 – October 13, 1968), was one of the leading Islamic clerics and preachers in Jakarta in the 20th century.