The Khanzada or Khan Zadeh are a cluster community of Muslim Rajputs found in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. A notable community is the Khanzadas of Mewat, the descendants of Raja Nahar Khan, who are a sub-clan of Jadaun.
Established during the reign of Qudsiya Begum in 1837, Jama Masjid in Bhopal is a masterpiece of Islamic architecture and a testament to the enduring spiritual legacy of the region. Nestled in the heart of Bhopal, this mosque took almost 24 years to get finally built, finished under the guidance of the Begum’s chief minister, Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan.
Jakub Szynkiewicz (d.1966, pictured in the centre) was a Doctor of Philosophy as well as Oriental Studies, chosen as the first Mufti of the newly independent Poland in 1925. Mufti Jakub is pictured with other notable Islamic clerics of the Polish Tatar community.
The caption reads: Execution of a Ghazi or Mohammedan "Fanatic" at the Peshawar Gate, Jalalabad by the British colonist, reported by Harper’s weekly magazine on March 15, 1879. The Ghazis were mostly Pathans of Northwest Frontier, who never accepted the illegal occupation of the British (romantised: British Raj).
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (d.1914), the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary pictured with Sir Mahbub Ali Khan Pasha (d.1911), the 6th Nawab of the Pricely state of Hyderabad of the Asaf Jahi dynasty.
Mawlana Shah 'Abd al-'Alim Siddiqi (d.1954) in South Africa leading a procession commemorating the Mawlid of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ with other Islamic clerics.
Muhammad Sadiq Bey (d.1902), was an Egyptian Officer and Engineer who photographed Makkah, Madinah, and the Hajj pilgrimage during his travels in an official capacity as treasurer of the pilgrims' caravan. During his first trip in 1861 he used a wet-plate collodion camera to take photographs. He learnt drawing and photography in Paris, possibly in the 1840s.
Ahmet Ali Effendi (Ahmet Ali Çelikten) was an Ottoman aviator who may have been the first black military pilot in aviation history. Ahmet born in 1883 in İzmir to his mother Zenciye Emine Hanım and father Ali Bey, of African Turkish descent. (His grandmother and grandfather are from Nigeria) He aimed to become a naval sailor and entered the Naval Technical School named Haddehâne Mektebi (literally “School of the Blooming Mill”) in 1904. In 1908, he graduated from school as a First Lieutenant. And then he went to aviation courses in the Naval Flight School that was formed on 25 June 1914 at Yeşilköy. He was then a member of the Ottoman Air Force. During World War I, he married Hatice Hanım who was an immigrant from Preveza. He became first black military pilot in aviation history when he started serving in November 1916. On 18 December 1917, Captain Ahmed Ali was sent to Berlin to complete aviation courses.
While American black people were still being treated as slaves or worse, Ottoman Muslim Air Forces member Ahmet Ali Efendi (d.1969) was the first black pilot of the world. He participated in a lot of air missions.
