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Mirza Muhammad Ismail Qandahari (c 1813–1912), usually known as Mirza Muhammad Ismail, was an Afghan religious scholar and the first convert to the Ahmadiyya faith among the Pashtons of the North West Frontier Province of India.[1]
He was an ethnic Turk, born about 1813 at Qandahar, Afghanistan. His father was a Qazi in the city of Qandahar, as well as being a some-time minister[2] during the reign of Shah Shujah Durrani (1785-1842), King of Afghanistan. He was a scholar of Arabic, Persian and Pashto, a good poet[3] and a calligrapher.[4]
He was a Pashto and Persian teacher to Captain (later Major) Henry George Raverty (1825-1906), assisting him in many of his works on the Pashto language.[3][5] He converted to Ahmadiyya Islam in response to a vision in 1887.
Ismail died on September 18, 1912, at Peshawar.
- ^ Tareekh-e-Ahmadiyya (Sarhad) [History of the Ahmadiyya in the North West Frontier] by Qazi Muhammad Yousaf Farooqi ; Published: Manzoor e Aam Press, Qissa Khwani Bazar, Peshawar (1958). pp:8-21
- ^ Tareekh-e-Ahmadiyya (Sarhad) [History of the Ahmadiyya in the North West Frontier] by Qazi Muhammad Yousaf Farooqi ; Published: Manzoor e Aam Press, Qissa Khwani Bazar, Peshawar (1958). pp:8-21
- ^ a b "A Dictionary of Pashto Language, by H G Raverty (1860)". 1867. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ Tareekh-e-Ahmadiyya (Sarhad) [History of the Ahmadiyya in the North West Frontier] by Qazi Muhammad Yousaf Farooqi; Published: Manzoor e Aam Press, Qissa Khwani Bazar, Peshawar (1958). pp:8-21
- ^ H G Raverty Teacher, Henry George Raverty