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On This Day In Muslim History: February 6

Sultan Mustafa II Was Born

On this day, 6 February 1664, Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II was born. Determined to recapture the lost territories in Hungary, he personally commanded his armies and eventually recovered the island of Chios from Venice, and other lands from Austria until he lost Hungary and was deposed during a civil revolt.


Abdul Ghaffar Khan Was Born

On this day, on 6 February 1890, Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born. Honourably addressed as Fakhr-e-Afghan and nicknamed ‘Frontier Gandhi’, he founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, a non-violent, anti-colonial resistance movement.


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Zainab Aliyah is a Staff Writer at The Cognate.

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