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Akbar Shah Khan Najibabadi
Indian Muslim historian
Akbar Shah Khan Najibabadi ( – 10 May ) was an Indian Sunni Muslim historian who wrote Tarikh-e-Islam in three volumes.[1]
Biography
Najibabadi was born in in Najibabad, Bijnor, United Provinces of British India.
He began teaching in Najibabad Middle School in and later taught Persian in High School, Najibabad.[2]
During and , he stayed in Qadian and embraced Ahmadism. He drew close to Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s successor, and wrote his biography entitled Mirqat al-Yaqin fi Hayati Nur al-Din in two volumes, the second of which remained unpublished because of his reversion back to Sunni Islam.[3] In Qadian, Najibabadi was superintendent of the Madrasa Nur al-Islam of Ahmadis for five years.[3]
After Noor-ud-Din's death, Najibabadi turned to Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad but could not agree with him more.
Until the middle of , Najibabadi associated with the Lah