Abdul Qadir

(Muslim leader)

Sheikh Sir Abdul Qadir (15 March 1872 –

9 February 1950) was a newspaper and
magazine editor and a Muslim community
leader in British India.[1]
 Sir Shaik Abdul Qaudri Qureshi

Sheikh Abdul Qadir in the late 1930s

Born Abdul Qadir

15 March 1872[1]
Ludhiana, British Raj,
now Punjab,India
Died 9 February 1950
 (aged 77)[1]
Lahore, Punjab,
Pakistan
Resting place Miani Sahib
Graveyard, Lahore,
Punjab, Pakistan
Notable works Editor of Observer
(1898)
Makhzan (1901)
Years active 1898–1950
Judge of Lahore High
Court (1921)
Minister of Education
(1935)
Leader of Anjuman-i-
Himayat-i-Islam
(1941)
Chief Judge of
Bahawalpur (1944)
He led the famous Muslim organization,
Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam and used his
position as the leader of this organization
to form other, pro-partition, organizations.
He was an early activist of the Pakistan
Movement.[2][1]

Early life and career

Qadir was born in Ludhiana on 15 March
1872. He was the editor of The Observer,
the first Muslim newspaper published in
English in 1895. In 1901, he launched the
magazine Makhzan, an Urdu language
publication. This magazine published the
early works of Allama Muhammad Iqbal.[1]
In 1904, Qadir went to study law in London,
and was called to the bar in 1907 after
which he returned to India, where he
served as a member of the Punjab
Legislative Council and the minister of
education in Punjab, British India in 1925.[1]

Qadir was knighted by the British in the

1927 Birthday Honours and in 1935
became a member of the governing
council of India.[3] He died on 9 February
1950 at the age of 77 and was buried in
Miani Sahib Graveyard, Lahore.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Mohandas

Karamchand Gandhi's book Mahatma
Gandhi contains a chapter by Qadir, where
he particularly relates his various
experiences with the understanding of
Gandhi in Europe in the 1930s.

His son Manzur Qadir, was a prominent

Pakistani jurist who served as the Foreign
Minister of Pakistan during the military
rule of Ayub Khan.[4]

References
1. Profile of Abdul Qadir on salaam.co.uk
website Retrieved 17 November 2017
2. S. M. Ikram. "Indian Muslims and
Partition of India" . GoogleBooks
 (books.google.com website).
Retrieved 17 November 2017.
3. photo and very limited explanation
about Qadir Islamic Review, Published
March 1935, Retrieved 17 November
2017
4. Without a foreign minister Dawn
(newspaper), 19 September 2013,
Retrieved 17 November 2017

External links
S. M. Ikram. Indian Muslims and the
Partition of India. (Atlantic Publishers,
1995) p. 282.
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