Hakim Ghulam Nabi

Hakim Ghulam Nabi (died 2 August 1916) was an Indian Unani physician of Lahore, the author of some forty medical books in Urdu and the publisher of a medical journal, who was a friend of the poet Muhammad Iqbal. ^{1 2} He treated the Maharaja of Nabha and the Mir of Khairpur, and served eleven years on Lahore's municipal committee. ¹ No English or Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him, so this entry rests on the Urdu article and Wikidata.

He was born in the village of Awan, in Ajnala tehsil of Amritsar district, the son of Khalifa Wali Muhammad, and belonged to the Awan tribe; the article records this as his family background. ¹ Wikidata gives his birthplace as Ajnala. ² He learned Arabic and Persian in his village, then studied in Amritsar under its leading scholars, among them Mufti Ghulam Rasul Qasmi Kashmiri, who died in 1902. ¹ No source gives his birth date or year.

He moved to Lahore, passed the Hakim Haziq and Zubdat al-Hukama examinations, and opened a clinic there. ¹ He published a medical journal named Hafiz-e-Sehat. ¹ His writings number about forty, most of them medical works of their time, some of which the article says are still valued. ¹ Wikidata records his languages as Urdu, Persian and Arabic. ²

He travelled to treat the Maharaja of Nabha, who on recovering gave him gold bracelets besides money, and in January 1909 he went to treat Mir Faiz Muhammad Khan Talpur II, the ruler of Khairpur; the Pir of Pagaro also consulted him. ¹ He was a friend of Muhammad Iqbal, a connection the article documents from Gyan Chand Jain's study of Iqbal's early poetry. ¹ He was twice elected to Lahore's municipal committee and remained a member for eleven years. ¹

He died on 2 August 1916 and was buried in Miani Sahib Cemetery, on Bahawalpur Road in Lahore; Wikidata gives the same date and the same cemetery. ^{1 2} No consulted source names a religion or school for him, and the museum records his affiliation as unknown.