List of Sri Lankan Moors
This is a List of Sri Lankan Moors, Arab traders who settled in Sri Lanka between the 8th and 15th centuries and now comprise 8% of the Sri Lankan population. The speak Tamil and Sinhalese and mainly live around the coast areas of the island.
Doctors
- Rizvie Sheriff - Philanthropist, Professor of Medicine.
- Dr M.C.M Kaleel - Cabinet minister, Doctor and Philanthropist
- Dr Jalaldeen Mohamed Shahabdeen - Consultant ophthalmologist
Entrepreneur
- Sheriefdeen M Irshad - Founder, Ygen Group of Companies.
- A.H.M. Razzak - Founder and Managing Director of Asian Hardware (Pte) Ltd
- M.Z.M. Nizam - Chairman of Medispot (Pte) Ltd
- M.A.M. Mulaffer - Founder/owner of A & S traders Ltd
Industrialists and corporate executives
- M.A.Mohamed Mohideen - Late President of Grandpass Welfare Association, Philanthropist.
- Mohamed Muhsin - Former Vice President of the World Bank and its Chief Information Officer.
- Zuhuree Rauf - Industrialist and Philanthropist - Founder of Alchemy Boulders, ex co-founder of Alchemy Heavy Metals (Pvt) Ltd and ex-director of Kandy Fertilsers (Pvt) Ltd
- A.M. Rauf - Industrialist and Philanthropist - Founder of Kandy Fertilisers (Pvt) Ltd
- Fatima Adam Koppenf - Philanthropist.[1]
- Naleem Haijiar - Founder of Jamiah Naleemiah Campus and philanthropist.[2]
Journalist
- Iqbal Athas - Sri Lankan defence journalist for the Sunday Times.
- Sharthaar Jameel - Well known Sri Lanken radio and TV broadcaster and Chief Operating Officer of DAN TV - France.
Law
Bisrul Ameen- Lawyer.
Media
Military
Musician
Politicians
- A.C.S.Hameed - First Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka - from Akurana - Kandy
- M.C.M Kaleel - Cabinet minister 1954, Physician.
- A. M. A. Azeez - First Moor civil servant, Former GA of Eastern Province (present Amparai), Late Zahira College (Colombo) Principal.
- Al-Hajj Badurdeen Mahmood - Well-known politician, former principal of Zahiria College (Gampola), former Education Minister.
- M. H. M. Ashraff - Former Minister of Ports Development and Eastern Rehabilitation and Reconstruction.[3]
- A. H. M. Fowzie - Minister of Highways and Transportation.
- Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas - Mayor of Colombo.
- Rauff Hakeem - Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress.
- M. M Zuhair - Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran.[4]
- M. I. M. Muhseen - Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Lebanon and Syrian Arab Republic.[5]
- M. Shafeek Rajabdeen - Member of Parliament.
- Irshad Cassim - Political Advisor.
- Jabeer Cader - Leading Cinema magnate, Politician, long time Lord Mayor of Colombo.
- Abdul Rahman - Politician, First Muslim member of the Legislative Assembly (forerunner of the Lower House), member of the National Flag committee.[6]
- Mohammed Macan Markar- Leading businessman, politician, philanthropist from old Galle family.[7]
- Razik Fareed - Politician, Ambassador, founder of the Moors Islamic Cultural Society.
- H. S. Ismail - First Moor Speaker of the House of Representatives. Founded the Ceylon Baithul Mal Fund.[8]
- Mohamed Rajabdeen - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Risad Badhiutheen - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Hussain Ahamed Bhaila - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- M. H. Cegu Isadean - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Cassim Faizal - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- M. H. A. Haleem - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Kabir Hashim - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Raseen Mohammed Imam - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Abdul Baiz Kamardeen - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- A.R. Anjan Umma - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- A.R.M. Abdul Cader - Sri Lankan politician, business man and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Ferial Ismail Ashraff - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- A. L. M. Athaullah - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Ali Ameer - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- M. N. Abdul Majeed - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Hasen Ali - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Faiszer Musthapha - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- S Rajabdeen - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the UK Parliament Sri Lanka.
- M. Mohamed Musthaffa - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- M. H. Mohamed - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- M. Mahroof - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Mohamed Mussammil - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- A. M. M. Naoshad - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- S. Nijamudeen - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Mohammed Abdul Bakeer Markar - Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed - Sri Lankan diplomat and political figure.
- S. M. L. Marikkar - Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat. He was a former Permanent Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka.
- Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana - Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Religion
- S. A. Rajabdeen - Former Bishop Cotton Boys School, Banagalore and Working for the Ritz Hotel London.
- Al Haj. Ghouse Mohideen - Moor leader and long time head of the Colombo Grand Mosque Committee.
- I. L. M. H. Muhammad Mohideen - Reconstructed Colombo Grand Mosque.[9]
Sports people
A.C.M. Lafir (cricketer 1955 - 1965)
Others
- J.M.Jawzy - Student leader.
- Wappichi Marikar - Builder (King's House, GPO, Colombo Museum etc.) Aide-de-camp to Vicount Salisbury the last Governor of Ceylon.
- Mohammed Gauss - Film composer.
- Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah -
See also
References