Ilm-ud-Din

Ilm Deen
Born4 December 1908
Lahore, Punjab, British India
Died31 October 1929 (aged 20)
Central Jail Mianwali, Punjab, British India
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Resting placeMiani Sahib Graveyard, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Criminal statusExecuted
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath

Ilm Deen, also written as Alimuddin (4 December 1908 – 31 October 1929), was an Indian Muslim carpenter who assassinated a book publisher named Mahashe Rajpal for publishing the book Rangila Rasul, which was considered derogatory towards the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, by Muslims.[1] He was executed for this crime. Alimuddin, was given the title ghazi (a Muslim warrior victorious in battle against the opponents of Islam). In Pakistan, a full-length feature film was produced on the life of Alimuddin and screened on television worldwide.[2]

  1. ^ Rumi, Raza (30 October 2015). "Blasphemy it was not". The Friday Times (newspaper). Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  2. ^ Gupta, Amit Kumar (1997). "Defying Death: Nationalist Revolutionism in India, 1897-1938". Social Scientist. 25 (9): 3–27. doi:10.2307/3517678. JSTOR 20488099. Retrieved 30 April 2022., page 47.