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{{infobox ethnic group
| group = Jat Muslim
| image =
| caption = A Muslim Jatt from [[Pakistan]]
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| popplace = [[Pakistan]]
| langs = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] • [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] • [[Urdu]] • [[Balochi language|Balochi]] •[[Khariboli|Khadi Boli]]
| rels = [[Islam]]
| related = [[Jat people]]|
| native_name =
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}}

'''Jat Muslim''' or '''Musalman Jat''' also pronounced '''Jutt''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|مسلمان جٹ}}}}) are the [[patrilineal]] descendants of [[Jat people]] of Northern regions of the [[Indian Subcontinent]] who are followers of [[Islam]]. They are found primarily throughout [[Sindh, Pakistan]] and [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab region]] of [[Pakistan]].<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jat Jat caste on Encyclopedia Britannica website] Retrieved 9 November 2020</ref><ref name=Jaffrelot2002 /> Jats began converting to [[Islam]] from the early [[Middle Ages]] onward, and constitute a distinct sub-group within the diverse community of Jat people.<ref name=Khanna2004 />

==Introduction of Islam==
When [[Arab people|Arabs]] entered Sindh and other Southern regions of current Pakistan in the seventh century, the chief tribal groupings they found were the Jats and the [[Med people]]. These Jats are often referred as Zatts ({{Lang-ar|الزُّطِّ|translit=Az-Zutt}}) in early Arab writings. The Jats were the first converts to Islam, and many were employed as soldiers by the new Arab Muslim administration in Sindh. The Muslim conquest chronicles further point at the important concentrations of Jats in towns and fortresses of Lower and Central Sindh.<ref name=Al-Hind1 /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Zuṭṭ {{!}} people|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zutt|access-date=2021-05-12|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>

Between the 10th and the 13th Century, there was large immigration of Jat groups northwards to [[Punjab region|Punjab]] and eastwards towards what is now [[Rajasthan]]. Many Jat clans initially settled in a region known as the Bar country, which referred to the country between the rivers of Punjab, thinly populated with scanty rainfall which accommodated a type of pastoral nomadism which was based primary on the rearing of goats and camels. Between the 11th and the 13th centuries, the Jats became essentially a farming population, taking advantage in the growth of irrigation. As these Jats became converted to farmers, they started accepting Islam. Most Jats clans of western Punjab have traditions that they accepted Islam at the hands of many famous [[Sufi]] saints of Punjab, [[Fariduddin Ganjshakar|Shaikh Faridudin Ganj Shaker]] of [[Pakpattan]], [[Ahmad Sirhindi]] of east Punjab and [[Baha-ud-din Zakariya]] of [[Multan]], [[Lal Shahbaz Qalandar]] of [[Sindh]], [[Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari]] of [[Bahawalpur]] area. In reality, the process of conversion was said to have been a much slower process.<ref name=Al-Hind2 />

==Social organization==
In the plains of Punjab, there are many communities of Jat, some of whom had converted to Islam by the 18th century, while others had become [[Jat Sikh|Sikhs]]. Those clans that converted to Islam remained in what is now [[Pakistani Punjab]] after [[Partition of India|Partition]]. In Pakistan, most Jats are land-owning agriculturalists, and they form one of the numerous ethnic group in Sindh.<ref name=Jaffrelot2002 /><ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1077113 |title=When it comes to 'I do', the cult of clans matter|author=Sumaira Jajja |date=29 December 2013|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|access-date=9 November 2020}}</ref>{{Request quotation|date=May 2021}}

==Notable people==
*[[Faiz Ahmed Faiz]], Pakistani [[Pakistani nationalism|revolutionary]] poet<ref>{{cite news|title=His family (poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz family)|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|date=11 February 2011 |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/605627/his-family |access-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007093906/http://www.dawn.com/news/605627/his-family |archive-date= 7 October 2015 |url-status=live |quote=Here lived a small land-owning class of Jat farmers, by caste known as Tataley. They addressed themselves as Chaudhry, from which we know that the given name of the poet was Chaudhry Faiz Ahmed. }}</ref>
* [[Qamar Javed Bajwa]], [[Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of Army Staff]], [[Pakistan Army]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/view-most-pakistanis-are-actually-indians/articleshow/70811241.cms?from=mdr |title=View: Most Pakistanis are actually Indians |author=Chidanand Rajghatta |date=28 August 2019 |newspaper=The Economic Times (newspaper)|access-date=12 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[Muhammad Rafiq Tarar]], Former President of Pakistan
* [[Shahbaz Gill]], Special Assistant to Prime Minister
* [[Muhammad Zafarullah Khan]], 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
*[[Asif Ali Zardari]]<ref>http://tribune.com.pk/story/814528/dastar-bandi-zardari-takes-over-as-chief-of-his-own-tribe/</ref>,Former President of Pakistan<ref>[https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/552851-people-to-get-rid-of-govt-claims-bilawal "People to get rid of govt, claims Bilawal Bhutto Zardari"],"[[The News International]]",November 9, 2019</ref>
* [[Fawad Chaudhry]], Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting of Pakistan
* [[Hina Rabbani Khar]], Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131019040904/http://www.firstpost.com/hina-rabbani-khar/video/foreign-minister-hina-rabbani-khar/3753808q03h1H0MiMB11.html</ref>
* [[Aaqib Javed]], Pakistan cricket coach
* [[Ghulam Mustafa Khar]], Pakistani politician
* [[Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi]], FormerChief Minister of Punjab (Pakistan), from 2002 to 2007<ref>[http://www.thenews.com.pk/print3.asp?id=10768 Top guns got Rs 54bn loans written off]</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Jats]]
* [[Jat clan system]]
* [[Tribes of the Bar Region of the Punjab]]

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=Al-Hind1>{{cite book |title=Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam, 7th-11th Centuries |last=Wink |first=André |year=2002 |location=Boston |publisher=Brill |volume=1 |pages=154–160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2m7_R5P2oAC&pg=PA154 |isbn=9780391041738 |oclc=48837811}}</ref>
<ref name=Al-Hind2>{{cite book |title=Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries |last=Wink |first=André |year=2002 |location=Boston |publisher=Brill |volume=2 |pages=241–242 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQ7k2vQlYxEC&pg=PA241 |isbn=9780391041745 |oclc=48837811 }}</ref>

<ref name=Jaffrelot2002>{{cite book |title=A History of Pakistan and Its Origins |editor-last=Jaffrelot |editor-first=Christophe |editor-link=Christophe Jaffrelot |others=Translated by Gillian Beaumont |date=2002 |location=London |publisher=Anthem Press |pages=205–206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fBtAAAAMAAJ |isbn= 9781843310303 |oclc=61512448}}</ref>
<ref name=Khanna2004>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures |chapter=Jat |last=Khanna |first=Sunil K. |editor1-last=Ember |editor1-first=Carol R. |editor1-link=Carol R. Ember |editor2-last=Ember |editor2-first=Melvin |editor2-link=Melvin Ember |year=2004 |location=Dordrecht |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |volume=2 |pages=777–783 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrMRezmNrPcC |isbn=9780387299051 |oclc=473757308}}</ref>
}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Jat Clans Of West Punjab}}
[[Category:Jat clans of Punjab|*]]
[[Category:Jat clans of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Jat clans of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Punjabi tribes]]

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