You may have known Quamer from many different places and phases of his life:
He was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India, in 1934 where he went to school and completed his first degree.
After a period studying in Germany, he lived in Manchester, completing post-graduate studies at UMIST, and then working initially in industry.
Quamer and Mary met in Oxford, and married in Manchester in 1969.
They moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1969, where Quamer was an academic in the electrical and electronic engineering department of Queen's University Belfast. He (mostly) retired in 1999. During his time in Belfast, he often led the Jummah and Eid prayers for an initially tiny, but then growing Muslim community.
For most of their time in Belfast, Quamer and Mary lived in Mount Pleasant, off the Stranmillis Road, where their two children attended the nearby Methodist College Belfast.
In 2002, Quamer and Mary moved to Oxford for their retirement, in 2004 settling in Jericho. Quamer joined the prayers organised by the Oxford Islamic students´ society, meeting many friends amongst the student community. Latterly he attended prayers in the new Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies mosque.
Both before and after retirement, Quamer and Mary met many friends whilst travelling, including for Umra, Hajj, and to India, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa.
In recent years, and especially during the pandemic, Quamer had become increasingly frail. On 11 February 2021, Quamer died peacefully in his sleep. He had been admitted to hospital 3 weeks earlier following a fall leading to breathing and heart complications. He was cared for beautifully by the staff at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, to whom we are very grateful.
Quamer is survived by his wife Mary, his brother Neshat (married to Zeenat, and parents of Zehra who is married to Andrew), his two sons Sa’ad and Ahmed, and his six grandchildren Noah, Zaki and Hana (Sa’ad and Anna’s children) and Safia, Ilias and Laila (Ahmed and Ruth’s children).
Quamer was much loved, and is much missed. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioun.