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Jinnah was the eldest of seven children of Jinnahbhai Poonja, a prosperous merchant, and his wife, Mithibai. His family was a member of the Khoja caste, Hindus who had converted to Islam centuries earlier and who were followers of the Aga Khan .
Jinnah was clever. Jinnahbhai Poonja and his wife Mithibai belonged to village Paneli in princely state of Gondal in Kathiawar, Gujrat. They moved to Karachi in 1875 where a son was born to them in a rented apartment on the second floor of Wazir Mansion who was named Mahomedali. The boy lived for sometime in Bombay with an aunt where he studied ...
Emibai was born in 1878 in Paneli Moti, a village in Rajkot district of Gujarat, during the time of British India. [5] She was a Gujarati Khoja of Nizari Isma'ili Shi’a Muslim background. She was the niece of businessman Jinnahbhai Poonja. [4] [5] [6] [7]
In 1892, Sir Frederick Leigh Croft, a business associate of Jinnahbhai Poonja, offered young Jinnah a London apprenticeship with his firm, Graham's Shipping and Trading Company.[19] He accepted the position despite the opposition of his mother, who before he left, had him enter an arranged marriage with a girl two years his junior from the ancestral village of Paneli, Emibai Jinnah.
Just before Jinnah's birth his father, Jinnahbhai Poonja, had moved from Gujarat to Karachi. Significantly, Jinnah's father was born in 1857 -- at the end of one kind of Muslim history, with the failed uprisings in Delhi -- and died in 1901 (F. Jinnah 1987: vii).
Feb 1, 1998 · Muhammadali Jeenabhai Poonja. It is generally assumed that Jinnah became more Islamic over the years that he spent in politics. This may not be entirely true. Some people think that jinnah means "wing" in Arabic, but this is incorrect: "wing" in Arabic is janah. The misunderstanding probably comes from the fact that jinnah written in Urdu ...
Jinnahbhai Poonja (Q108840372) From Wikidata. Jump to navigation Jump to search. 1857 - 1901. edit. Language ... Poonja Gokuldas Meghji. 1 reference. stated in ...
