Muslim Personalities

Cegu Issadeen An intelIectual heavyweight passed away in Akkaraipattu the other day. He was a multi-faceted personality. A controversial politician and an emotive speaker, he strode the literary and political fields in the South-East of Sri Lanka for several decades. Late Issadeen was famous for his philosophical poetry in Tamil, writing under pen name, வேதாந்தி. He was the ideologue of …

AKKARAIPATTU :,Founder member of SLMC and former minister Cegu Izzaddeen, 82 , and father of Hasana Cegu Izzaddeen Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Harini passed away in his hometown of AKKARAIPATTU on Thursday early morning on Nov. 28. Mohamed Hasan Cegu Issadeen (1944–2024): A Legacy of Leadership Mohamed Hasan Cegu Issadeen, born on May 12, 1944, was a prominent …

By Alhaj A. H. M. Azwer, MP, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, President, H. S. Ismail Commemoration Committee. – Daily News Sat May 17 2003 H.S. Ismail is a distinguished product of Puttalam. According to eminent Greek, Roman and Arab historians, Puttalam, Manthota and Galle had Arab settlements several centuries before the birth of Christ. Ibn Batuta, the famous Arab traveller …

To mark the 51st death anniversary of Dr. A. M. A. Azeez on November 24, 2024, the Azeez Foundation is republishing the insightful article, “A.M.A. Azeez’s Agricultural Feat in the East” by A. I. Marikar. This tribute highlights Dr. Azeez’s transformative initiatives in rural agriculture, showcasing his commitment to uplifting underprivileged communities in Eastern Sri Lanka. His visionary policies not …

Biography Sir Muhammad Iqbal, fondly remembered as Allama Iqbal, was born in Sialkot on November 9, 1877. He was educated at Sialkot and Lahore, and later at Cambridge. After receiving a doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximillian University at Munich in 1907 for his thesis The Development of Metaphysics in Persia, and bar at law from Lincoln’s Inn in 1908, he practiced law for …