Tafazzul Husain Khan

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18th-century Indian Shia scientist, philosopher and theologian

Lived 1727 to 1801 · aged 74

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Tafazzul Husain Khan Kashmiri (1727-1801), also known as Khan-e-Allama, was a Twelver Shia scholar, physicist, and philosopher. He produced an Arabic translation of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia.

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James Dinwiddie notes in his diary: "Much jarring between the Nabob and Tafazzul Husain - the N told him he must not consider himself as his (the N's) servant but the servant of the English." Dinwiddie Journal B 39-13 May 1797.

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Lived 1727 to 1801 · aged 74

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