Shamsul Ulama

Shamsul Ulama (Arabic: شمس العلماء "sun of the scholars") is a religious title that has been taken by or granted to various individuals in India including:

• Maulvi Nazir Ahmed (1836–1912)^[1]
• Imdad Imam Asar (1849–1933), Indian poet, critic and writer
• Shibli Nomani (1857–1914)^[2]
• Shah Badruddin (1852–after 1920)^[3]
• Jivanji Jamshedji Modi (1854–1933), Zoroastrian priest^[4]
• Khwaja Kamaluddin Ahmad, first Muslim principal of Calcutta Alia Madrasa
• Safiullah Sarhadi (1870—1948), Islamic preacher, philosopher and teacher
• Abu Nasr Waheed (1878—1953), Bengali Islamic scholar and government minister
• Majid Ali Jaunpuri (died 1935), Indian Islamic scholar and rationalist thinker
• Belayet Hossain Birbhumi (1887—1984), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and author
• Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898—1959), Bengali Islamic schoar, politician and journalist
• Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913—2008), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and author
• E. K. Aboobacker Musliar (1914–1996), leader of Kerala Muslims
• Mohammad Abdul Jalil Usmani, 1897, Professor Arabic and Persian, Religious scholar.