2025: January 6 (6 Rajab 1446 AH)

 January 6

Events

  • 1492 - The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella entered Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War. 
  • 1960 – The Associations Law came into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
  • 1993 - Indian Border Security Force units killed 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a Border Security Force patrol.
  • 2012 - Twenty-six people were killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police station in Damascus. 
  • 2019 - Forty people were killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan.
  • 2019 - Muhammad V of Kelantan resigned as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia becoming the first monarch to do so.

Births

  • 1883 - Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American poet, painter and philosopher (d. 1931)
  • 1967 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer, songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist


Deaths

  • 786 - Abo of Tiflis, an Iraqi martyr and saint (b. 756)
  • 1481 - Ahmed Khan bin Kuchuk, a Mongolian ruler
  • 1693 - Mehmed IV, an Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)

Mehmed IV, also known as Mehmed-i rabi, Mehmet IV, Avcı Mehmet, or Mehmed the Hunter (b. January 2, 1642 – d. January 6, 1693) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup. Mehmed went on to become the second longest reigning sultan in Ottoman history after Suleiman the Magnificent.  While the initial and final years of his reign were characterized by military defeat and political instability, during his middle years he oversaw the revival of the empire's fortunes associated with the Koprulu era. Mehmed IV was known by contemporaries as a particularly pious ruler, and was referred to as gazi, or "holy warrior" for his role in the many conquests carried out during his long reign.

Under his reign the empire reached the height of its territorial expansion in Europe. From a young age he developed a keen interest in hunting, for which he is known as avcı (translated as "the Hunter").  In 1687, Mehmed was overthrown by soldiers disenchanted by the course of the ongoing War of the Holy League.  Mehmed subsequently retired to Edirne, where he resided until his natural death in 1693.


  • 2019 - Lamin Sanneh, Gambian born American professor (b. 1942)

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6 Rajab

Events

  • Many Sufi followers of the Chishti tariqa (path) celebrate the anniversary of Khawaja Mu'in al-Din Chishti. 

Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti Sijzi (February 1143 – March 1236), known reverentially as Khawaja Gharib Nawaz, was a Persian Islamic scholar and mystic from Sistan, who eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he promulgated the Chishtiyya order of Sunni mysticism. This particular tariqa (order) became the dominant Islamic spiritual order in medieval India. Most of the Indian Sunni saints are Chishti in their affiliation, including Nizamuddin Awliya (d. 1325) and Amir Khusrow (d. 1325).

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