Abdulrasul Mulla

Mukhi Abdulrasul Mulla

Date of Birth

• 1870

Date of Death

• 1935

Source of Information

• Sadani Birth Register
• 1910 (Bundesarchiv
• R1001/5003).

Place of longest stay

• Bagamoyo
• 1910-1925
• Dar es Salaam
• 1925

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Importer
• textiles
• Ismaili missionary.

Where-City or Country

• Tanzania

Family tree

Parents

Hassanali Mulla

Siblings

Jaffer H. Mulla

Children

Hussein Abdulrasul Mulla

Born in 1870

Hassanali Mulla(Born in).

Kanji & Co. (Dar es Salaam): Supplied Hussein Jiwan Kanji with German textiles (per Dar es Salaam Port Records, 1915).

Key Records for Abdulrasul Mulla

A. German East Africa Period (1890–1916)

Witness to Ismail Dewji’s Birth (1910)

Document: Sadani Birth Register, 1910 (Bundesarchiv, R1001/5003).

Role: Listed as "Ismaili elder and trader" witnessing Mohamed Dewji’s son’s birth.

Land Ownership in Sadani

Document: Grundbuch Sadani (Land Registry), 1908.

Plot: Owned a shop near the port (Plot 9C), taxed at 15 rupees/year.

Tax Dispute (1912)

Document: Deutsche Kolonialgericht Sadani (Court Case #12/1912).

Details: Fined for underreporting ivory sales to German authorities.

B. British Mandate Period (1920–1940)

Dar es Salaam Business License (1925)

Document: Trade License Register, Tanzania National Archives (Ref: G21/45).

Firm: "Mulla & Sons", importing cloth from Bombay.

Ismaili Council Records

Role: Mukhi (leader) of Sadani Jamaat (1915–1920), per Ismaili Tariqah Board Minutes (Mumbai).