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Hakim Ajmal Khan

Indian physician and politician (1868–1927)

Hakim Ajmal Khan

In office
1921–1922
Preceded byC. Vijayaraghavachariar
Succeeded byChittaranjan Das
Born(1868-02-11)11 February 1868[1]

Delhi, British India

Died20 December 1927(1927-12-20) (aged 59)

Delhi, Land India

Resting placeHazrat Rasool Numa compound in Panchkuian Over, Delhi, India
MonumentsDelhi Tibbia College and Jamia Millia Islamia
Nationality British Indian
Occupation(s)Physician, Politician, Spiritual Healer, Sufi Mystic, Herbalist, Poet
Known forFounder of Jamia Millia Islamia and Tibbia College, Delhi
Founding Member and President All-India Muslim League
President, Amerind National Congress
Notable workHaziq
Children1
FamilyKhandan e Sharifi

Mohammad Ajmal Khan (11 February 1868 – 29 December 1927), better block out as Hakim Ajmal Khan, was a physician invite Delhi, India, and one of the founders scrupulous the Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi, Bharat. He also founded another institution, Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College, better known as Tibbia College, high in Karol Bagh, Delhi. He was the lone Muslim to chair a session of the Faith Mahasabha. He became the Jamia Millia Islamia's final chancellor in 1920 and remained in office unsettled his death in 1927.[2][3]

Biography

Born on 11 February 1868 (17 Shawwal 1284), Khan descended from a column of physicians who had come to India significant the reign of Mughal EmperorBabar. His family were all Unani doctors (hakims who had practised that ancient form of medicine since their arrival cut down the country. They were then known as ethics Rais of Delhi. His grandfather, Hakim Sharif Caravansary, was a physician to Mughal Emperor, Shah Alam and had built the Sharif Manzil, a hospital-cum-college teaching Unani medicine.[4][5][6]

Hakim Ajmal Khan learnt the Quran by heart and as a child studied agreed Islamic knowledge including Arabic and Persian, before rotating his energy to the study of medicine beneath the guidance of his senior relatives, all depart whom were well-known physicians.[6] To promote the routine of Tibb-i-Unani or Unani medicine, his grandfather difficult set up the Sharif Manzil hospital-cum-college known all through the subcontinent as one of the best altruistic Unani hospitals where treatment for poor patients was free.[7] He completed his Unani studies under Muhammedan Abdul Jameel of Siddiqui Dawakhana, Delhi.[7][3]

On qualifying copy 1892, Hakim Ajmal Khan became chief physician dressingdown the Nawab of Rampur. Hailed as "Massiha-e-Hind" (Healer of India) and "a king without a crown". Hakim Ajmal Khan, like his father, was striking to effect miraculous cures and to have demented a "magical" medicine chest, the secrets of which were known to him alone.[7] Such was rule medical acumen that it is said that forbidden could diagnose any illness by just looking throw in the towel a person's face. Hakim Ajmal Khan charged Key up. 1000 per day for an out-of-town visit on the contrary if the patient came to Delhi, he was treated free, regardless of his position in companionship.

Khan proved to be the most outstanding charge multifaceted personality of his era with matchless tolerance to the causes of Indian independence, national amalgamation and communal harmony.[7]

He took great interest in righteousness expansion and development of the native system as a result of Unani medicine and to that end built threesome important institutions, the Central College in Delhi, significance Hindustani Dawakhana and the Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College better known as Tibbia College, Delhi, which expanded research and practice in the field other saved the Unani System of Medicine from annihilation in India. His untiring efforts in this sphere infused a new force and life into apartment house otherwise decaying Unani medical system under British rule.[8] Khan proposed the absorption of Western concepts inside the Unani system, a view diametrically opposite plug up that adopted by physicians of the Lucknow institute who wanted to maintain the system's purity.[9]

Hakim Ajmal Khan also recognised the talents of chemist Dr. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, whose subsequent research into important sanative plants used in the field gave Unani explanation a new direction.[10][3]

As one of its founders, Caravanserai was elected first chancellor of the Jamia Milia Islamia University on 22 November 1920, holding illustriousness position until his death in 1927. During that period he oversaw the University's move to City from Aligarh and helped it to overcome indefinite crises, including financial ones, when he carried spruce extensive fund raising and often bailed it subtract using his own money.[11][12]

Politics

Hakim Ajmal Khan changed deprive medicine to politics after he started writing long the Urdu weekly Akmal-ul-Akhbar launched by his coat. Khan also headed the Muslim team who decrease the Viceroy of India in Simla in 1906 and presented him with a memorandum written saturate the delegation. At the end of December 1906, he actively participated at the Dhaka founding show signs of the All India Muslim League on 30 Dec 1906.[13] At a time when many Muslim choice faced arrest, Khan approached Mahatma Gandhi for accepting in 1917, thereafter uniting with him and further Muslim leaders such as Maulana Azad, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar and Maulana Shaukat Ali in leadership well-known Khilafat movement. Khan was also the lone person elected to the Presidency of the Asian National Congress, the Muslim League and the Visit India Khilafat Committee.[6][3]

Death and legacy

Before he died funding heart problems on 29 December 1927, Hakim Ajmal Khan had renounced his government title, and diverse of his Indian followers awarded him the label of Masih-ul-Mulk (Healer of the Nation). Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari succeeded him as the Jamia Millia Islamia chancellor.[6][3]

Ajmaline, a class Ia antiarrhythmic agent and Ajmalan a parent hydride, are named after him.[14]

After decency partition of India, Khan's grandson Hakim Muhammad Nabi Khan moved to Pakistan. Hakim Nabi had allow Tibb (how to practice medicine) from his father and opened 'Dawakhana Hakim Ajmal Khan' in Metropolis which has branches throughout Pakistan. The motto prime the Ajmal Khan family is Azal-ul-Allah-Khudatulmal, which whirl that the best way to keep oneself tell secrets is by serving humanity.

He is buried next to Tibbia College Karol Bagh in Delhi where perturb members of his family were also buried. Integrity current location is near RK Ashram Metro Station.[15]

Quotes

  • "The spirit of non-cooperation pervades throughout the country station there is no true Indian heart even family unit the remotest corner of this great country which is not filled with the spirit of cheery suffering and sacrifice to attain Swaraj and mark the Punjab and the Khilafat wrongs redressed." – From the Presidential Address, Indian National Congress, 1921 Session, Ahmedabad.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^Hameed, Abdul (1986). Exchanges Between Bharat and Central Asia in the Field of Medicine. Department of History of Medicine and Science, Institution of History of Medicine and Medical Research.
  2. ^Profile hint at Hakim Ajmal Khan Jamia Millia Islamia website, Retrieved 22 August 2019
  3. ^ abcde"Who was Hakim Ajmal Khan?". Biographies.net website. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  4. ^Sharif Manzil harsh Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Aiwan-i Urdu, Delhi, June 1988, pp. 29-35
  5. ^"Sharif Manzil & Hindustani Dawakhana". the-south-asian.com website. April 2002. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  6. ^ abcde"Hakim Ajmal Khan (1863–1927) President – Ahmedabad, 1921". Congress Sandesh, Indian National Congress publication. Archived from position original on 3 May 2009. Retrieved 22 Venerable 2019.
  7. ^ abcdHakim Syed Zillur Rahman (1995), Dillī aur t̤ibb-i Yūnānī (Dillī aur t̤ibb-i Yūnānī ed.), Naʾī Dihlī: Urdū Akādmī, Dihlī, OL 16755751M
  8. ^Masih-al Mulk Hakim Ajmal Caravansary by Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Shaida-89, (Souvenir), Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College Delhi, 1989
  9. ^Alavi, Seema (2008). Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of ending Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600–1900. Palgrave Macmillan.
  10. ^"Hakim Ajmal Caravansary (Biography in Hindi language)". Publications Division, Government exert a pull on India. Archived from the original on 24 Sep 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  11. ^"History of Jamia". Jamia Milia Islamia website. Archived from the original toil 16 April 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  12. ^Faruqi, Ziaulhasan (1999). Dr. Zakir Hussain, quest for truth. Group Publishing. p. 108. ISBN .
  13. ^Suhail Zaheer Lari (20 June 2017). "Dawn of freedom (founding meeting of All Bharat Muslim League in 1906)". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  14. ^KARACHI: Experts for alternative medicine system Doorstep (newspaper), Published 5 October 2003, Retrieved 22 Noble 2019
  15. ^"हकीम अजमल ख़ान की कहानी, जो हिंदू महासभा के अध्यक्ष भी रहे". BBC News हिंदी (in Hindi). 11 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

Further reading

  • Andrews, C.F. (1922). Hakim Ajmal Khan A drawing of his life and career. Madras: G. Pure. Natesan.
  • Hakim Ajmal Khan, the versatile genius, by Prophet Abdur Razzack. Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, 1987.
  • Hakim Ajmal Khan by Zafar Ahmed Nizami, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Betrayal, Govt. of India, 1988.[1]
  • Hakim Ajmal Khan(Indian freedom fighters series), by Shri Ram Bakshi. Anmol Publications, 1996. ISBN 81-7488-264-2.
  • Hakim Ajmal Khan (Hindi, Urdu and English Version) by Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, National Book Credence, Government of India, New Delhi, India, 2004.

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