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Nangarhar

ننجرهار

Province of eastern Afghanistan.

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Persia & Central Asia
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Najm al-Din Akhundzada

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Turangzai Haji Saheb· Afghanistan· Najm al-Din Akhundzada

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islam.museum contributors. “Nangarhar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/nangarhar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Turangzai Haji Saheb

Fazal Wahid (1858–1937), Pashtun scholar and education campaigner of Turangzai in Charsadda district. A disciple and deputy of Najm al-Din Akhundzada, the Mulla of Hadda, he studied at Darul Uloom Deoband, accompanied Sheikh Mahmud Hasan on the Hajj in 1890, fought the British in the 1897 revolt, then turned to education and, with Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, helped found some 120 schools; driven out by a British warrant in 1915, he directed resistance from Mohmand territory until his death.