John Grant, Rustam Khan-Urf, Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah, Sheik A. Abdullah, Syed Iqbal, Bahloal Dana, Ibn Amjed
Occupation
Author, diplomat, savant
Nationality
Afghan Indian
Subject
Travel, exploration, Arab World, cross-cultural studies
Spouse
Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah
Children
Amina Shah, Omar Ali-Shah, Idries Shah
Relatives
Bibi Mehmooda Begum (sister), Shah family
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah (Hindi: सरदार इक़बाल अली शाह, Urdu: سردار اقبال علی شاہ; 1894 in Sardhana, India – 4 November 1969 in Tangier, Morocco) was an Indian-Afghan author and diplomat descended from the Sadaat of Paghman. Born and educated in India, he came to Britain as a young man to continue his education in Edinburgh, where he married a young Scotswoman.
Travelling widely, Ikbal Ali Shah undertook assignments for the British Foreign Office and became a publicist for a number of Eastern statesmen, penning biographies of Kemal Atatürk, the Aga Khan and others. His other writing includes lighter works such as travel narratives and tales of adventure, as well as more serious works on Sufism, Islam and Asian politics. He hoped that Sufism might "form a bridge between the Western and the Eastern ways of thinking"; familiar with both cultures, much of his life and writing was devoted to furthering greater cross-cultural understanding.
Ikbal Ali Shah had three children, all of whom became notable writers themselves; his son Idries Shah became particularly well known and acclaimed as a writer and teacher of Sufism in the West. When Ikbal Ali Shah's wife died in 1960, he moved from Britain to Morocco, spending the last decade of his life in Tangier. He died in a road accident in Morocco, aged 75.
Sirdar IkbalAliShah (Hindi: सरदार इक़बाल अली शाह, Urdu: سردار اقبال علی شاہ; 1894 in Sardhana, India – 4 November 1969 in Tangier, Morocco) was an Indian-Afghan...
the Nawab of Sardhana. His relatives include IkbalAliShah, Amina Shah, Omar Ali-Shah and Idries Shah. Shah attended St. Anselm's Ajmer school and St Joseph's...
of the Sufi writers Idries Shah and Omar Ali-Shah, and the daughter of Sirdar IkbalAliShah and Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, a Scottish woman. Her nephew...
met the Pashtun author, poet, diplomat, scholar, and savant Sirdar IkbalAliShah and wrote about her marriage to this chieftain's son and her travels...
religion. Idries Shah was born in Simla, Punjab Province, British India, to an Afghan-Indian father of Pashtun descent; Sirdar IkbalAliShah, a writer and...
teacher and writer Idries Shah. Both his grandfathers were respected literary figures in their own right: Sirdar IkbalAliShah on his father's side, and...
Muhammad Shah Jan-Fishan Khan . Saiyed Muhammed AliShah • Saiyed AliShah . Saiyed Ahmed Shah . Saiyed Amjad AliShah • Saiyed Sirdar IkbalAliShah Page...
estimates the length of the tomb to about 130 m. The publicist Sirdar IkbalAliShah mentions about the dimensions: Eve must have been a lady of formidable...
Edward Saunders Shelley Scarlett Harry Seeley Idries ShahIkbalAliShah Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah John Sherwood-Kelly VC Daniel Solander Newton John Stabb...
Afghan writer and thinker Idries Shah, an associate and friend of the poet Robert Graves. Shah's father, IkbalAliShah published two of Kabraji's poems...
king, Ahmad Shah Durrani, that had been located and must be kept secret from the Russian invaders. Idries Shah's father, IkbalAli-Shah had himself endeavoured...
272. Shah, Sardar IkbalAli. Nepal the Home of Gods. pp. 38–9. Acharya, Baburam, Naraharinath, Yogi (2014). Badamaharaj Prithvi Narayan Shah ko Divya...
publishing firm of his cousin Idries Shah, the son of Sirdar IkbalAliShah and grandson of Nawab Syed Amjad AliShah). Idries Shah recounts a story about his cousin...
Clement, 49, three time Governor of Tennessee; in an auto accident IkbalAliShah, 75, Indian-born British author; in an auto accident Carlos Marighella...
begins. The book has been inspired and is an homage to his grandfather, IkbalAliShah. The Fisherman Idyll Capilongo Mittle-Mittle The Tale of the Rusty Nail...
Mehmooda Begum (Daughter of Nawab Amjad AliShah of Sardhana, last Nawab of Sardhana) sister of Sirdar IkbalAliShah Daughter: Halima Barlas Daughter: Nafisa...
Shrines. Lovenstein Press. pp. 306–309. ISBN 978-1-4067-7267-8. Ali-Shah, The Sirdar Ikbal (1933). Islamic Sufism. Tractus. p. 221. ISBN 978-2-909347-07-3...
daughter of Nawab Amjad AliShah, last Nawab (noble) of Sardhana. Bibi Mehmooda Begum was also the sister of the Sirdar IkbalAliShah, an Indian-Afghan author...
Aldecoa Spain 25 July 1925 15 November 1969 Author El fulgor y la sangre IkbalAliShah India 12 July 1894 4 November 1969 Writer, diplomat Afghanistan of...
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