Bilgrāmī brothers - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bruce, Gregory Maxwell
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The Bilgrāmī brothers were Indian statesmen, educators, social reformers, and intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The genealogical literature records five brothers; this article focuses on the most famous three. The Bilgrāmī brothers were born into a Shīʿa family of scholars and statesmen that traced its lineage to the family of the Prophet through migrants from Wāsiṭ who came to India with Muḥammad b. Sām of Ghūr in 614/1217 (according to the Persian chronogram khudādād , lit. God-given, the letters in which, by the numerical abjad