Janbaz Mirza

Janbaz Mirza
BornPakistan
Occupationwriter, poet, journalist
NationalityPakistani

Janbaz Mirza (born Mirza Ghulam Nabi Janbaz) was a writer, poet, and journalist from Pakistan. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party,[1] which he joined in 1932.[2] After the partition of India in 1947, he started to publish the weekly newspaper Tabsarah.[citation needed] He wrote Karvan-e-Ahrar, an eight-volume series of the history of the Indian subcontinent.[3]

  1. ^ Jalal, Ayesha (2000). Self and sovereignty: individual and community in South Asian Islam since 1850. Routledge. pp. 293–294. ISBN 978-0-415-22077-4.
  2. ^ Masud, Muhammad Khalid (2000). Travellers in faith: studies of the Tablīghī Jamāʻat as a transnational Islamic movement for faith renewal. BRILL. p. liii. ISBN 978-90-04-11622-1.
  3. ^ Reid, Anthony; Michael Gilsenan (2007). Islamic legitimacy in a plural Asia. Routledge. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-415-45173-4.