Hassan Musa Khan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Afghan cameleer in Australia, founder of Perth Mosque
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Place of Birth: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
About Hassan Musa Khan
- Muhammad Hassan Musa Khan (30 May 1863 – 1939), also known as Mohamed Hasan Musakhan, Hasan Musakhan, or Hassan Musakhan, was one of the early so-called "Afghan" cameleers in Australia.
- Born in Karachi, a member of the Tarin tribe of Pashtuns which originates from Southern Afghanistan and Balochistan, he was a nephew of Khan Bahadur Moradkhan, the first South Asian supplier of camels to Australia.
- Khan was the first Ahmadiyya Muslim in Australia, and was notable for being appointed as an arbitrator in a complex 1899 court case, involving camel importation to Western Australia.After winning a Mansfield Scholarship at school, Khan won a Frank Souter Scholarship at the University of Bombay (Mumbai) in 1887.
- He was a schoolteacher and headmaster in British India from 1889–92, and arrived in Australia in 1896.
- He was fluent in several languages including English, Pushto, Urdu, Persian, Sindhi, as well as some Arabic.He may have brought his wife to Australia from India, according to a birth notice for his daughter, born at "Nurse Baseby's, King St in Coolgardie", in mid-1899.Khan was a bookseller in Perth between 1904 and 1906.
- In 1904 he founded the Perth Mosque, and later served as its treasurer as well as secretary.
- He was a representative of the "camel men" at various official events between 1896 and 1927, and lived in Kalgoorlie in 1921 and in Adelaide, South Australia in 1932.
- He travelled to Delhi, India between 1911 and 1914.
- He donated books to the Battye Library in Perth.With "wonder man" Mahomet Allum, Khan edited the booklet The History of Islamism in Australia from 1863-1932.
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