Knud Holmboe

Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe (April 22, 1902 Horsens Denmark - October 13, 1931 Aqaba Jordan) was a Danish journalist and explorer who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1921, and, after a sojourn in North Africa, ultimately converted to Islam in 1925. Six years later, he published a book of his experiences on a journey through Libya, that later became famous. The book exposed the maltreatment of the population the author had witnessed on his journey and the atrocities committed by the Italian colonial power. Holmboe was murdered on his way to Mecca in Aqaba in October 1931.

Knud Holmboe is the elder brother of Danish composer Vagn Holmboe.

Life

Knud Holmboe was born as the eldest son of a well-known Danish merchant family in Horsens, Jutland. In his late teenage years he became more and more interested in religion and philosophy, and at the age of twenty, he moved into a monastery in Clervaux/Clerf, in northern Luxembourg, converting to Catholicism in 1921.

After finishing an education as a journalist, he started to work for various Danish local papers. However, in search of deeper religious knowledge, he travelled to Morocco in 1924, and became acquainted with Islam. During a meeting with a sheikh, he realized that he belonged to Islam and converted the following year.

Alauddin Ali

Alauddin Ali (born December 24, 1952) is a Bangladeshi music composer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Music Director three times in 1978, 1979 and 1980.

Background

Ali's father, Jadob Ali, was a staff artiste at the Dhaka Radio Station. His uncle, Sadek Ali and cousins Dhir Ali Miah, Mansur Ali, Yunus Ali and Momotaz Uddin were music directors and composers at the radio during the 1960s.

Career

Ali debuted as a music director through the film Shondhikkhon in 1975. He has directed music for more than 300 films.

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Fariduddin Ganjshakar

Khwaja Fariduddin Masud Ganjshakar (Farīduddīn Masūd Ganjshakar), popularly known as Baba Farid and Sheikh Farid (1173–1266; also spelled Fareed, Fareeduddin Masood, Ganj-e-Shakar, etc.), was a Sufi saint and a Muslim missionary from the Chishti order, living in Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.

Life

Fariduddin Masud was born in 1179 or 1188 AD (584 Hijri) at village Kothewal, 10 km from Multan in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan, to Jamāl-ud-dīn Suleimān and Maryam Bībī (Qarsum Bībī), daughter of Sheikh Wajīh-ud-dīn Khojendī. He was one of the founding fathers of the Chishti Sufi order.

Farid's lineage is traced back to the second Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab. Though he is the grandson of Ibrahim ibn Adham, Baba Farid received his early education at Multan, which had become a centre for Muslim education; it was there that he met his Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, a noted Sufi saint, who was passing through Multan on his way from Baghdad to Delhi. Upon completing his education, Farīd left for Sistan and Kandahar and went to Makkah for the Hajj pilgrimage with his parents at the age of 16.