Sindhi Shaikh

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Shaikh
Total population
6,503,000 [1]
Regions with significant populations
•  Pakistan •  India
Languages
• Sindhi • Urdu
Religion
• Islam 100% •
Related ethnic groups
• Sindhi Memon • Punjabi Shaikh • Shaikh

Sheikh (Arabic and Urdu: شيخ‎), is an Arabic word meaning elder of a tribe, lord, revered old man, or Islamic scholar. The Shaikh of Sindh are one of the larger communities of the Sindhi Muslims ethnic group. They speak the various dialects of Sindhi, depending on their place of residence. The Shaikh are largely urban community, residing in the towns and cities of Sindh. Shaikhs have different community in them, namely sanjogi, nangani, deewan and chatani.[2]

Origin

In South Asia, it is used as an ethnic title generally attributed to Muslim trading families descended from the higher castes and are generally very rich and powerful in the local administration and economy.[3] Shaikh families are descended from Muslim technocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, theologians and Sufis who travelled from the rest of the Muslim world to the Islamic Sultanate in South Asia and settled permanently. In Sindh, the families of the Makhdums of Hala are Siddiqui Shaikhs, who arrived from Central Asia. The shaikhs who migrated from the Arab lands as Sufis conjointly lived with the existing wealthy Shaikh inhabitants of Larkana, Sukkur, Shikarpur and Khairpur while now they have spread throughout Sindh, making a worthy population around 1 Million. [Sindh - Pakistan].

Distinguished Sindhi Shaikhs

  • Imtiaz Shaikh, MPA Shikarpur and Special Advisor to PM and Former Provincial Minister and Bureaucrat, Sindh
  • Shaikh Ayaz, Sindhi poet of Pakistan
  • Najmudddin Shaikh, Former Foreign Secretary, Pakistan
  • Ghulam Shabir Shaikh, Former IGP Sindh, Pakistan
  • Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Federal Finance Minister, Pakistan
  • Muhammad Ayub Shaikh, Chairman Employees' Old Age Benefits Institution], Pakistan[4]
  • Maqbool Shaikh, Former Provincial Minister for Food and Health, Sindh
  • Faraz Shaikh, Chairman Sindh Naujawan Shaikh Ittehad, Sindh
  • Faryaz Nisar Shaikh, Vice Chairman Sindh Naujawan Shaikh Ittehad, Sindh

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=18084&rog3=PK
  2. ↑ Gazetteer of West Pakistan, the Former Province of Sind Including Khairpur State. Gazetteer Cell, Board of Revenue, Lahore 1968 by H. T Sorely
  3. ↑ Gazetteer of West Pakistan, the Former Province of Sind Including Khairpur State. Gazetteer Cell, Board of Revenue, Lahore 1968 by H. T Sorely
  4. ↑ http://www.eobi.gov.pk/network/chair-eobi.html

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