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Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era.

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Authors

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Punjabi

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Classical

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Modern

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Urdu

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Persian

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English

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Business

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Folklore

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Legendary

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Military

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Air Force

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Army

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Recipients of the Victoria Cross

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  • Khudadad Khan, operated a machine gun despite being wounded after his team was overrun and bayoneted by the Germans, holding them back long enough for reinforcements in the Western Front
  • Shahamad Khan, covered a 150 yard gap at the Tigris Front in Mesopotamia after his men became casualties where he continued to single-handedly repel three counter-attacks
  • Abdul Hafiz, charged at enemy lines in Burma
  • Sher Shah Awan, commanded a platoon ambushed by the Japanese, his leg was shattered but he fought on and crawled at the enemy which he shot at point-blank range
  • Fazal Din, ran through the chest in Burma by a Japanese samurai officer's sword reaching through to his back and proceeded to pull the sword out of his chest and kill the Japanese officer with it

Music

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Punjabi Folk

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Sufi Qawwali

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Classical Hindustani Gharanas

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Modern Playback

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Politicians

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United Kingdom

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Nobility

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Mughal Empire

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Sikh Empire

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Chieftains

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People believed to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin

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Following personalities have been identified by scholars to be Punjabi or of Punjabi origin, but there is yet to be a scholarly consensus:

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

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Poets, Saints, Scholars and other religious figures

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Scientists and academics

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Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
Mahbub ul Haq, widely regarded as one of the greatest economists of the 20th century.[12]

Sportspersons

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Association Football

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Cricket

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Freestyle Wrestling

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Weightlifting

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Field hockey

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Javelin throw

Arshad Nadeem

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References

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  1. ^ Fisher, Michael Herbert (2019). A Short History of the Mughal Empire. I.B. Tauris. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7556-0491-3. Shaikh Gadai Kamboh (a Punjabi whose ancestors had converted to Islam)
  2. ^ Sharma, Parvati (2023). A Lamp for the Dark World: Akbar, India's Greatest Mughal. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-5381-7790-7.
  3. ^ Srivastava, Prof. R. P. (1981). "Patiala: Its Artistic and Cultural Significance". The Sikh Courier. 10 (4). London: Sikh Cultural Society of Great Britain: 16. ISSN 0037-511X. OCLC 265579842 – via University of Virginia. Nadir-ul-Asar Ahmad Mimar Lahori Shahjehani was also a Punjabi who designed the Taj Mahal of Agra.
  4. ^ Grewal, J. S. (1974). "The Historian's Panjab". Miscellaneous Articles. Amritsar: Guru Nanak University. pp. 1–10. OCLC 34606247.
  5. ^ Qaisar, Ahsan Jan (1969), "Shahbaz Khan Kambu". Medieval India: A Miscellany, Vol. I. Aligarh Muslim University, pp. 48–49 OCLC 656134323
  6. ^ Dhavan, Purnima (2020). "Warriors and Zamindars in Mughal Punjab". In Eaton, Richard M.; Sreenivasan, Ramya (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222642.013.13. ISBN 978-0-190-22264-2.
  7. ^ Iqtidar Alam Khan (2008). Historical Dictionary of Medieval India. Scarecrow. p. 107. ISBN 9780810864016.
  8. ^ Hambly, Gavin R. G. (2002). "Gujarat". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume XI/4: Greece VIII–Hadith II. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 385–390. ISBN 978-0-933273-66-5. Firuzšāh Shah Toḡloq (752–90/1351–88) appointed as governor of Gujarat one of his most trusted lieutenants, Ẓafar Khan I, a Punjabi Khatri convert.
  9. ^ Eaton, Richard M. (2019). India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765. Penguin UK. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-14-196655-7. The career of Khizr Khan, a Punjabi chieftain belonging to the Khokar clan, illustrates the transition to an increasingly polycentric north India.
  10. ^ Mubārak, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn (1891). The Ain I Akbari. Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 321.
  11. ^ Dalrymple, William (2019). The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. Bloomsbury USA. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-63557-395-4. The second power was a new force, which in the 1770s was just emerging and beginning to flex its military muscles: the Mysore Sultanate of Haidar Ali and his formidable warrior son, Tipu Sultan. Haidar, who was of Punjabi origin, had risen in the ranks of the Mysore army, where he introduced many of the innovations he had learned from observing French troops at work in the Carnatic Wars.
  12. ^ "Inaugural Mahbub ul Haq-Amartya Sen Lecture, UNIGE | Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. January 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
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