Kintoor

{{Infobox military conflict

| conflict = Battle of Kintoor

| partof = the Indian Mutiny

| image =

| caption =

| date = 6 October 1858

| place = Kintoor

| presidency = Bengal

| co-ordinates = approx 27.01504°N 81.483387°E

| 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.[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[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]

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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=t_4IAAAAQAAJ&dq=kintoor&pg=RA1-PR5 The report on the census of OUDH], OUDH Government Press, 1869

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.People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Three, edited by A Hasan & J C Das Sayyids of Jarwal (Bahraich), Kintoor (Barabanki) and Zaidpur (Barabanki) were wellknown Taluqadars (feudal lords) of Awadh province.[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

{{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. Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Agha Roohi, a Lucknow based cleric is from the family of Nishapuri Kintoori Sayeds and uses title Abaqati.

• Abd ul-Qadir Hanif-ud-Din Kintoori (d. 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).[https://books.google.com/books?id=qjJmzdJFOHwC&q=kintoori&pg=PA554 Dictionary Of Indo-Persian Literature], By Nabi Hadi[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
• 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.[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][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], by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford[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[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 }}
• 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.
• Syed Iʿjāz Ḥusayn Musavi Kintoori (1825-1870),

: son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Kintoori

• 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].[https://books.google.com/books?id=6JrL2GdwkVsC&q=kinturi&pg=PA284 Islam, politics, and social movements] By Edmund Burke, Ervand Abrahamian, Ira M. Lapidus[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[http://www.al-islam.org/thaqalayn/nontl/Abaqat.htm Mir Hamid Hussain and his famous piece Abaqat al-anwar][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.
• Qazi Mahmud Kintoori author of Mirat i Madari.[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

• Justice Maulvi Syed Karāmat Ḥusayn Musavi Kintoori (1854-1917): son of Syed Sirāj Ḥusayn Musavi Kintoori, he founded Karmat College, Lucknow.

• Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi: Paternal grandfather of Ruholla Khomeini. He was born in Kintoor.[http://www.iranian.com/Books/1999/June/Khomeini/index.html From Khomein, A biography of the Ayatollah], 14 June 1999, The Iranian[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[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
• Film writer Haider Rizvi is from Kintoor and has written famous Indian comedy shows like The great Indian Laughter Challenge and the feature film Siya.

File:parijat-tree-at-Kintoor-Barabanki-001.jpg

• Parijaat tree a sacred baobab tree on the banks of Ghaghra.{{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 }}
• The famous Kunteshwar Temple – dedicated to Lord Shiva.{{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 }}

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• http://ourvillageindia.org/Place.aspx?PID=562564
• http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=27.01504,81.483387&z=12&t=h&hl=en
• https://online.omms.nic.in/ASPNet/citizens/DG/05DVC/CensusStatus.aspx?state=UP&district=13&block=13&reportLevel=3
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• "Indian Mutiny" by Saul David 2002 {{ISBN|0-14-100554-8}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=rrioNz8_EwwC&dq=Sayyids+of+Barabanki&pg=PA243 Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism] By Justin Jones
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Kintoor

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