Kintoor

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'''Kintoor, Kantur''' or '''Kintur''' is a village in the Barabanki district of the Awadh region of central Uttar Pradesh, India. It is famous for the Battle of Kintoor of 1858 during the Indian Mutiny and being home to the learned Sayyids of Awadh, Northern India.<ref name="books.google.co.in">[https://books.google.com/books?id=BloPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Kintoor%22+-kintore+-kintour&pg=PA292 Bulletins and other state intelligence, Part 1]</ref><ref name="bbk.nic">{{cite web |url=http://barabanki.nic.in/places.htm |title=Places to visit |website=barabanki.nic.in |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010422021453/http://www.barabanki.nic.in/places.htm |archive-date=2001-04-22}}</ref>

==Battle of Kintoor== {{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Battle of Kintoor | partof = the Indian Mutiny | image = | caption = | date = 6 October 1858 | place = Kintoor | result = British victory | territory = | combatant1 = 24px East India Company

24px Kapurthala State

25px Akali-Nihangs | combatant2 = Rebel Sepoys | commander1 = 24px Major A.Hume Commanding 1st European Bengal Fusiliers

24px Raja of Kapurthala Commanding Kapurthala Contingent

25px Akali Prahlad Singh | commander2 = Collector Darakhaje Collector Abid Khan Major-General Abson Khan Mohamed Ameer Khan | strength1 = 1st Bengal Fusiliers, 150 rank and file; 2nd Company 3rd battalion Artillery, two 9-pounder guns; Hodson's Horse, 56 sabres; Oude Military Police Cavalry, 200 sabres; Kappurthullah Contingent:- Artillery, five 8-pounder, three 6-pounder guns; Cavalary, 124 sabres; Infantry, 650 rank and file | strength2 = 3,000 infantry 200–300 cavalry 4 guns | casualties1 = 4 wounded 1 horse killed, 7 wounded | casualties2 = 450 killed }}

The Battle of Kintoor was a conflict between rebel sepoys and troops East India Company and Kapurthala State on 6 October 1858 during Indian Mutiny.<ref name="books.google.co.in"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zugSAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Kintoor%22+-kintore+-kintour&pg=PA228 House of Commons papers, Volume 43] By Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FuIsAAAAMAAJ&dq=kintoor&pg=PA292 Bulletins and Other State Intelligence Compiled and Arranged from the Official Documents Published in the London Gazette]</ref>

==British Raj==

During 1869 census of Oudh, Kintoor was designated as one of the total thirteen large towns or ''kasbahs'' and Inspector of Police of Ram Nagar was appointed here on the night of census.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=t_4IAAAAQAAJ&dq=kintoor&pg=RA1-PR5 The report on the census of OUDH], OUDH Government Press, 1869</ref>

==Personalities== ===Nishapuri Sada'at of Kintoor===

Many of the early Sufi saints that came to North India belonged to Sayyid families. Most of these Sayyid families came from Central Asia and Iran, but some also originate from Yemen, Oman, Iraq and Bahrain. Perhaps the most famous Sufi was Syed Salar Masud, from whom many of the Sayyid families of Awadh claim their descent.<ref name=Hasan>People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Three, edited by A Hasan & J C Das</ref> Sayyids of Jarwal (Bahraich), Kintoor (Barabanki) and Zaidpur (Barabanki) were wellknown ''Taluqadars'' (feudal lords) of Awadh province.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GgUeAAAAMAAJ&q=Zaidpur King Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh, Volume 1] by Mirza Ali Azhar, Royal Book Co., 1982</ref>

====Abaqati family==== {{Main|Abaqati family}} A branch of the ''Nishapuri Kintoori Sayeds'' moved to Lucknow. The most famous of ''Kintoori Sayeds'' is Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi, author of work entitled ''Abaqat al Anwar''; the first word in the title of this work provided his descendants with the ''nisba'' (title) they still bear, ''Abaqati''.<ref name="islam" /> Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati ''Agha Roohi'', a Lucknow based cleric is from the family of ''Nishapuri Kintoori Sayeds'' and uses title ''Abaqati''.

===Literary===

====Urdu/Persian (19th century)==== * Abd ul-Qadir ''Hanif-ud-Din Kintoori'' (died 1789): a Sufi of ''Qadri'' order. His ancestors emigrated from Nishapur, Iran, and served as jurists. He was author of the book ''Kuhl ul-jawahir fi manaqib-i-'Abd ul-Qadir Jilani''(1753).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qjJmzdJFOHwC&q=kintoori&pg=PA554 Dictionary Of Indo-Persian Literature], By Nabi Hadi</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VleM1pOXgdQC&q=kinturi&pg=PA1006 Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey : Qur'Anic Literature; History and Biography : Biography Additions and Corrections Indexes, Volume 1, Part 2], by C.A. Storey</ref> * Ayatollah Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Khan ''Kintoori'' (1775-1844): principal ''Sadr Amin'' at the British court in Meerut. He was author of ''Tathir al-mu'minin 'an najasat al-mushrikin''.<ref name="mullasadra">[http://mullasadra.blogspot.in/2011/09/scholarship-in-sayyid-family-in-avadh-i.html#!/2011/09/scholarship-in-sayyid-family-in-avadh-i.html Scholarship in a sayyid family of Avadh I: Musavī Nīshāpūrī of Kintūr]</ref><ref name="roots">[http://www.al-huda.com/Article_4of79.htm '''Roots of North Indian Shi‘ism in Iran and Iraq''' Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013223006/http://al-huda.com/Article_4of79.htm |date=13 October 2010 }}, ''by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford''</ref><ref name="sacred">[http://www.bandung2.co.uk/books/Files/Religion/Sacred%20Space%20and%20Holy%20War.pdf Sacred Space and Holy War The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718140016/http://www.bandung2.co.uk/books/Files/Religion/Sacred%20Space%20and%20Holy%20War.pdf |date=18 July 2011 }} ''by Juan Cole, I.B.Tauris Publishers, LONDON - NEW YORK''</ref><ref>[http://www.xn----ymcdg7jsa80e.com/index.php/page,SiteEn.FullBookInfoEn/bookId,2554?PHPSESSID=a32bd4c0ccfca52eb9ec4aeaa9aef9e3 Dar al-Kitab Jazayeri] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130210032007/http://www.xn----ymcdg7jsa80e.com/index.php/page,SiteEn.FullBookInfoEn/bookId,2554?PHPSESSID=a32bd4c0ccfca52eb9ec4aeaa9aef9e3 |date=10 February 2013 }}</ref> * Syed Ahmad Musavi Hindi (1800-1869), was born in Kintoor (Kingdom of Awadh / Oudh State) and was the paternal grandfather of Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, the first supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His ancestors had migrated in the late 18th century from their home in Nishapur near the shrine city of Mashhad to the Kingdom of Awadh, whose rulers were Twelver Shi'a Muslims of Persian origin. *Syed Sirāj Ḥusayn Musavi ''Kintoori'' (1823-1865): son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli ''Kintoori'', he was author of [http://www.shiaonlinelibrary.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8/3358_%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC%D8%A8-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_1#top ''Kashf al-ḥujub wa-l-astār ʿan asmāʾ al-kutub wa-l-asfār''], ''Shudhūr al-ʿiqyān fī tarājim al-aʿyān'' and ''Āʾīna-yi ḥaqq-numā''.<ref name="mullasadra"/> *Syed Iʿjāz Ḥusayn Musavi ''Kintoori'' (1825-1870), : son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli ''Kintoori''<ref name="mullasadra"/> * Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi ''Kintoori'' ''Lakhnavi'' (1830-1880): son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli ''Kintoori'' author of book ''[http://www.al-islam.org/thaqalayn/nontl/Abaqat.htm Abaqat ul Anwar fi Imamat al Ai'imma al-Athar]''.<ref name="mullasadra"/><ref name="roots" /><ref name="islam">[https://books.google.com/books?id=6JrL2GdwkVsC&q=kinturi&pg=PA284 Islam, politics, and social movements] ''By Edmund Burke, Ervand Abrahamian, Ira M. Lapidus''</ref><ref>[http://www.docstoc.com/docs/3385087/Leader-of-Heaven Leader of Heaven] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103105321/http://www.docstoc.com/docs/3385087/Leader-of-Heaven |date= 3 January 2010 }} #18</ref><ref>[http://www.al-islam.org/thaqalayn/nontl/Abaqat.htm Mir Hamid Hussain and his famous piece Abaqat al-anwar]</ref><ref>[http://www.wofis.com/asset/Books/018.pdf GHADEER-E-KHUM WHERE THE RELIGION WAS BROUGHT TO PERFECTION] ''By I.H. Najafi, Published By A GROUP OF MUSLIM BROTHERS, NEW ADDRESS P. 0. Box No. 11365- 1545, Tehran – IRAN.''</ref> * [https://ulamaehind.in/scholar/allama-ghulam-hasnain-kanturi Allama Hakeem Sayyid Ghulam-ul-Hasnain Kanturi (1829 or 1832-1919)], born in Kantur, a Lucknow-based polymath whose scholarship spanned classical islamic sciences, philosophy, and medicine. Major works include ''[https://www.hidayatlibrary.com/book/c7c0614936383163810001bb Intesar-ul-Islam]''.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMq9mTkBp1s |title=An Introduction to the Allama Ghulam Hasnain Kanturi/Courtesy noor micro film |date=2020-11-04 |last=Baseerat TV |access-date=2026-05-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kantaori |first=Sayyid Ghulam Hasnain |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.409407 |title=Intesar-ul-Islam |date=1905 |publisher=Rekhta}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Allama Ghulam Hasnain Kanturi |url=https://ulamaehind.in/en/scholar/allama-ghulam-hasnain-kanturi |access-date=2026-05-18 |website=ULAMAEHIND.in |language=en}}</ref> * Qazi Mahmud Kintoori author of ''Mirat i Madari''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VleM1pOXgdQC&dq=%22Kintoor%22+-kintore+-kintour&pg=PA1006 Persian Literature – A Biobibliographical Survey ...], Volume 1, Part 2 By C. A. Storey</ref>

====Urdu/Persian (20th century)==== * ''Justice Maulvi'' Syed Karāmat Ḥusayn Musavi ''Kintoori'' (1854-1917): son of Syed Sirāj Ḥusayn Musavi Kintoori, he founded Karmat College, Lucknow.<ref name="mullasadra"/>

===Others=== * Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi: Paternal grandfather of Ruholla Khomeini. He was born in Kintoor.<ref name="islam" /><ref name="Iranian">[http://www.iranian.com/Books/1999/June/Khomeini/index.html From Khomein, ''A biography of the Ayatollah''], 14 June 1999, The Iranian</ref><ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=rNrMilgHKKEC&dq=Seyyed+Ahmad+Musavi+Hindi&pg=PA199 The Columbia world dictionary of Islamism] By Olivier Roy, Antoine Sfeir</ref><ref name="Moin1999">[https://books.google.com/books?id=B-ihPNR4iaoC&dq=Seyyed+Ahmad+Musavi+Hindi&pg=PA2 Khomeini: life of the Ayatollah, Volume 1999] By Baqer Moin</ref> * Film writer Haider Rizvi is from Kintoor and has written famous Indian comedy shows like The great Indian Laughter Challenge, the feature film Siya and Rajkumar rao starrer film Bhool Chuk Maaf .

==Attractions== thumb|Parijat tree at Kintoor, Barabanki * Parijaat tree a sacred baobab tree on the banks of Ghaghra.<ref name="bbk.nic"/><ref name=Wickens>{{cite book |title=The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia |last=Wickens |first=Gerald E. |author2=Pat Lowe |year=2008 |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |isbn=978-1-4020-6430-2 |page=61 }}</ref> * The famous Kunteshwar Temple – dedicated to Lord Shiva.<ref name="bbk.nic"/><ref name="Kameshwar 2006 159">{{cite book |title=Bend in the Sarayu: a soota chronicle |last=Kameshwar |first=G. |year=2006 |publisher=Rupa & Co. |isbn=978-81-291-0942-2 |page=159 }}</ref>

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