Mirza Ghulam Murtaza
Ghulam Murtaza | |
|---|---|
| Mīrzā Raʾīs-i Qādiyān | |
| Landed gentry | |
| Predecessor | Mirza Atta Muhammad |
| Successor | Mirza Ghulam Qadir |
| Born | c. 1791 |
| Died | June 1876 |
| Buried | Qadian, Punjab, India |
| Noble family | Barlas |
| Spouse(s) | Chiragh Bibi |
| Issue | Murad Begum Ghulam Qadir Ghulam Ahmad |
| Father | Mirza Atta Muhammad |
| Occupation | Rais, physician, military personnel |
Mirza Ghulam Murtaza (Urdu: مرزا غلام مرتضى) (c. 1791 – June 1876) was an Indian chief and landowner best known for being the father of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement. He belonged to a family of Mughal nobility that had lost most of its estates to the Sikh Kingdom during the late 18th century and only a fraction of which – including Qadian, the family's ancestral seat – he was able to regain from it.
Ghulam Murtaza was mentioned in some detail by Sir Lepel Griffin in The Panjab Chiefs (1865), a survey of the Punjab’s aristocracy, as a man of "considerable local influence". He was married to Chiragh Bibi and had three surviving children.