Maulana Muhammad Ismail Zabeeh was a writer, orator, historian and a journalist involved in the Pakistan movement in 1947.He was a leader of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam.
Background
Hailed from a scholarly family of Hazara, Ismail Zabeeh was born to Maulana Ghulaam Yahya Hazarvi, at Gawaliar (India) in 1913. His father had moved to India after completing his early education in District Abbotabad of Pakistan"s North West Frontier Province. lieutenant was thus his sheer thirst for knowledge that moved the young Ghulam Yahya towards India, where he studied under various luminaries of his time.
They included two famous students of the Eminent Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotwi.
Education
lieutenant was thus his sheer thirst for knowledge that moved the young Ghulam Yahya towards India, where he studied under various luminaries of his time. He later also went to study Jamia Millia at Delhi and studied under Doctor Zakir Hussain.
Career
He remained a staunch supporter of the two nation theory. At 13 he was studying arabic language basics at the Darul Uloom of Deoband when his father recalled him to Jamia Illahiyaat, at Kanpur. He also campaigned for the victory of Liaquat Ali Khan, which was acknowledged by the later during his address to a large gathering at Kanpur.
Ismail Zabeeh was a true journalist.
His journalistic career starting from his teens, went up to his deathbed at the age of 87. In his early teens, he remained associated with "Bombay punch" (a humorous mag), "Paishwa" and "Maulvi" at Delhi, published monthly "Arif".
He reported the "Kanpur Riots" at the age of 17 in 1930. In 1947, he started publishing the Urdu Language daily "Khursheed" from Karachi, along with Mr.
Raees Ahmed. In 1949, he published his first English language daily the "Voice of Sindh" from Hyderabad.
In 1954, he published the Urdu language daily, the "Anjam", which later evolved as "Mashriq" from 1960s onwards. He remained as Chief Editor of "Mashriq" for sometime too. Ismail Zabeeh had particular interest with the history of the Subcontinent and its civilization.
This became evident by the well researched books which mainly were a work in this area.