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.