Usmani or Osmani or Othmani or Uthmani is a large community (Biradari in Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

), found mainly in South Asia

South Asia

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. The word Usmani or Osmani ( one and the same thing) is a surname adopted mainly by two castes in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Sheikh Usmani

The Shaikh Usmani are a Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 speaking community, and many are found among the Muhajirs of Pakistan.They are of Arab origin.
The word usmani derived from Hazrat Usman Gahni (R.A), the third caliph of Islam. One of the sub-continent well know personality Hazrat Maulana Shabir Ahmed Usmani (Sheikh ul Islam) belongs to this origin. They claim that they came in India with sufi fakir Hazrat Khawaza Moinuedin Chisti .

Turk Usmani

They claim to have Turk ancestry and are found mainly in North-West India and Pakistan.They include the descendants of Karlugh Turks

Karlugh Turks

The Karlugh Turks are a prominent Karluk Turkic tribe that resides mainly in the Hazara region of current Pakistan. These Karlugh Turks formed a Turki Shahi dynasty and ruled the state of Pakhli Sarkar for over 200 years from 1472 to 1703.- Arrival:...

 who came with Taimur in 1398-1399.They live in Hazara region and Kashmir regions of Pakistan.They are Hindko speaking.The turks who came with Khilji

Khilji

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 and Slave dynasties also use "usmani" as surname.

The Osmani are found all over South Asia

South Asia

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, and have spread across Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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, India

India

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 and Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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.

Famous people

• A. F. Golam Osmani
  A. F. Golam Osmani
  A. F. Golam Osmani was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Barpeta constituency of Assam and was a member of the Indian National Congress political party. He died March 31, 2009 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He had been suffering from lung...
  
  
• Inam Ahmed Osmani
  Inam Ahmed Osmani
  Inam Ahmed Osmani is a Pakistani engineer who founded Osmani & Company Ltd. in 1960. He graduated with a gold medal from NED Engineering College in 1956...
  
   Chairman, Osmani & Company (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Asim Inam Osmani CEO, Osmani & Company (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Ammar Asim Osmani
• Akhtar Md Osmani
• Alfred Osmani
  Alfred Osmani
  Alfred Osmani is an Albanian football goalkeeper who currently plays for KS Besa in the Albanian First Division...
  
  
• M. A. G. Osmani
  M. A. G. Osmani
  General Muhammad Ataul Ghani Osmany, popularly referred to as Bangabir General M.A.G. Osmany was the Commander-in-Chief of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971...
  
  
• Tefik Osmani
  Tefik Osmani
  Tefik Osmani is an Albanian football defender. Currently he is with KS Teuta but he has previously played for the Ukrainian clubs Vorskla Poltava and Metalurg Zaporozhye. He has also been called up for the Albanian national team.-KF Tirana:...
  
  
• Zuhra Osmani
• Allama Mufti Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
  Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
  Shabbir Ahmad Usmani was an Islamic scholar who supported the creation of an Islamic system of governance in Pakistan after its creation in 1947. He was a theologian, writer, orator, politician, and expert in tafsir and hadith...
  
  
• Muhammad Taqi Usmani
  Muhammad Taqi Usmani
  Muhammad Taqi Usmani is a Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan who was born in 1943. He served as a judge on the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 1981 to 1982 and the Shari'a Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic...
  
  
• Allama Mufti Maulana Muhammad Rafi Usmani
  Muhammad Rafi Usmani
  Muhammad Rafi Uthmani is the renowned religious authority in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He is serving as the crrent Grand Mufti of Pakistan and President of Darul Uloom Karachi. He is the son of the late Mufti Muhammad Shafi Uthmani, the founder of Darul Ulum Karachi. He is recognized for...
  
  
• Shabir Osmani
• Ishrat Hussain Usman former Chairman PAEC
• Tanzil Haider Usmani
  Tanzil Haider Usmani
  Dr. Tanzil Haider Usmani is a Pakistani chemist and the current chairman of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . A research scientist in the field of chemistry, Usmani had made original contribution in the field of chemistry and has been associated with Pakistan Council of...
  
  
• DR.SHAIK GULAM OSMANI
• General(Ret) Muzaffar Hussain Usmani former Deputy Chief of Pakistan Army
• M.M Usmani Chairman Pakistan Steel Mills.

• Zain Osmani

Given name

• Osmani Urrutia
  Osmani Urrutia
  Osmani Urrutia Ramírez is one of the best Cuban baseball players today...
  
  
• Daood Yunus Usmani
• Yousuf Aftab Osmani

See also

• Abbasi
  Abbasi
  Abbasi is a prominent Islamic family name. - Origin :The Abbasid caliphate was founded by the descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, in Harran in 750 CE and shifted its capital in 762 to Baghdad...
  
  
• Alavi
  Alavi
  The surname Alavi signifies ancestry from Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib , the fourth Caliph of Sunni Islam and the first Imam in Shia Islam...
  
  
• Behna
  Behna
  The Behna are a Muslim community, found in North India . In eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, they were known as Dhuna or Dhunia. They also known as Naddaf in South India and Pinjara in Gujarat and Rajasthan...
  
  
• Faooqi
• Gardezi
  Gardezi
  - Origin :The name denotes people from Gardez, the capital of the Paktia province in Afghanistan.The name denotes people from Gardez, one of the 34 provincial capitals in Afghanistan. As such, the surname is widespread among the people in Afghanistan. One of the most famous Gardezis is Abu Saʿīd...
  
  
• Gilani
  Gilani
  Gilani or Jilani or Kilani may refer to:* a gentilic of Gilan, Iran* MV Gilani, an Empire F type coaster which sank at Montreal on 22 April 1972.* Gillani Railway Station, a neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan....
  
  
• Hashemi
• Quraishi
  Quraishi
  Quraishi , is a family name that originates from Arabs in Saudi Arabia, particularly from the city of Mecca.- Lineage :...
  
  
• Shaikh Siddiqui
• Siddiqui
  Siddiqui
  Siddiqui, is a Muslim family name, found in the South Asia and the Middle East. Shaikh is an additional title used occasionally by Siddiqui/Siddique to signify their Arab heritage...
  
  
• Mughal Tribe