Shamsul Ulama ( "sun of the scholars") is a religious title that has been taken by or granted to various individuals in India including: Maulana Zahoor ul Hussain Farooqui Rampuri, ex Principal of Madrasa Alia Rampur Shibli Nomani (1857–1914) Maulana Nizamuddeen Allahabadi ex Principle Madarasa Alia Rampur Shah Badruddin (1852–after 1920)Jawaid Alam Government and Politics in Colonial Bihar, 1921-1937 - - 2004 Page 226 "... awarded the title of Shamsul Ulama in 1915 by the British; first alim to renounce the title Shamsul Ulama at the call of Gandhi in September 1920. Sharfuddin, Syed Muhammad (1856-1921); belonged to the famous Shia family of Neora; .." Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (1854–1933), Zoroastrian priest Khwaja Kamaluddin Ahmad, first Muslim principal of Calcutta Alia Madrasa Safiullah Sarhadi (1870–1948), Islamic preacher, philosopher and teacher Abu Nasr Waheed (1878–1953), Bengali Islamic scholar and government minister Majid Ali Jaunpuri (died 1935), Indian Islamic scholar and rationalist thinker Quazi Shamsuddeen Jaunpuri, writher of Qanoon e Shariat Belayet Hossain Birbhumi (1887–1984), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and author Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898–1959), Bengali Islamic schoar, politician and journalist Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and author E. K. Aboobacker Musliar (1914–1996), leader of Kerala Muslims Mohammad Abdul Jalil Usmani, 1897, Professor Arabic and Persian, Religious scholar.
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