Qambar (person)

Qambar (Arabic: قمبر) was a freed slave of the Islamic caliph Ali.[1] According to some traditions, he was Ali's groom.[2][3]

In the Pakistani province Sindh, the descendants of Bantu slaves from Southeast Africa known as Sheedis refer to themselves as "Qambrani" (Urdu: قمبرانی , Sindhi: قمبراڻي) in reverence to Qambar.[4][5]

References

  1. Slaves in the History of Islam
  2. Islamic Spirituality in Turkic Oral Epics, Karl Reichl pg 7
  3. Dhuldul in Encyclopaedia of Ismailism
  4. "‘Sheedis have been hurt most by attitudes’". Dawn (newspaper). 23 June 2008. Retrieved 30 Dec 2013. Sindhi Sheedis call themselves Qambrani, out of reverence for Hazrat Qambar, a servant of Hazrat Ali (AS).
  5. Shah, Anish M. et al. (15 July 2011). "Indian Siddis: African Descendants with Indian Admixture". American Journal of Human Genetics 89 (1): 154–161. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.05.030. Retrieved 18 December 2012.