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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.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah was an Afghani-Indian, who attended Edinburgh University to study medicine in the late 1910s. Ali Shah was from a well-known Afghan family whose very presence at Edinburgh challenged proto-Orientalist ideas embedded in colonial British imagination and thought.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah was a prolific writer of articles, and books relating to South Asia, Sufism and the Muslim World. He published in The Bookman and other journals, but struggled to live by his writing.
Nov 5, 2017 · Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. Publication date. 1933. Topics. Archeological Survey, Islamic fundamentalism, Islam, Mythlology, Sufism. Collection. digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan. Language. English. Item Size. 124160814. Book from the Archaeological Survey of India. Central Archaeological Library, New Delhi. Book Number: 2144. Book Title: Islamic sufism.
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Ikbal Ali Shah has 29 books on Goodreads with 284 ratings. Ikbal Ali Shah’s most popular book is Alone in Arabian Nights.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah 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.
