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Dehlavi
Language * Kauravi dialect, also known as Dehlavi, spoken around Delhi and the basis of Hindostani language Personal names Dehlavi is a toponymic surname (Nisba (onomastics), nisba) for people from Delhi (formerly Dehli). Notable people with the surname include: * 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (1551–1642), Indian Islamic scholar from Delhi, author of ''Ma'arij-ul-Nabuwwah'' * Abdul Rehman Jilani Dehlvi (1615–1677), Indian Sufi saint of the Qadri tariqa * Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi (1888–1959), Indian Muslim scholar, writer and freedom fighter * Ali Muhammad Khan Dehlavi (1876–), Indian politician, educationist, Muslim reformer * Amir Khosrow Dehlavi or Amir Khusrau (1253–1325), noted Indian Sufi saint and poet * Bedil Dehlavi or Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642–1720), Indian poet in Persian * Bekhud Dehlvi (1863–1955), Indian Urdu poet and writer of ghazals * Daagh Dehlvi (1831–1905), 19th-century Indian Urdu poet * Faaiz Dehlvi (1609-1738), Indian noble and poet in Urdu and Persian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi
Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi (10 February 1910 – 13 March 1987) was an Indian Muslim scholar, jurist, literary critic, and a poet of the Urdu language, who served as the rector of Madrasa Aminia from 1955 to 1979. He participated in the Indian freedom struggle movement and authored books such as ''Adabī bhūl bhulayyān̲'', ''Urdū Masdar Nāmā'' and ''Taz̲kirah-yi Sā'il''. He compiled the religious edicts of his father Kifayatullah Dehlawi as ''Kifāyat al-Mufti'' in nine volumes. Biography Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi was born on 10 February 1910 in Shahjahanpur. He was the eldest son of Kifayatullah Dehlawi, the Grand Mufti of India. He studied at the Madrasa Aminia with his father Kifayatullah Dehlawi and scholars including Khuda Bakhsh and Abdul Ghafoor Aarif Dehalvi. He studied Islamic calligraphy with Hamid Hussain Faridabadi and Munshi Abdul Ghani. Wasif was a calligrapher, literary critic, poet and an Islamic jurist. Aged 15, he started to write poetry in Persian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamil Dehlavi
Jamil Dehlavi ( ur, جمیل دہلوی) (born 1944) is a London-based independent film director and producer of Pakistani- French origin. Since he became a filmmaker in the 1970s, his work has been widely screened internationally, notable films including ''Jinnah'' (1998), about the partition of India and the birth of Pakistan, which won the Grand Prize at the Festival of the Dhow Countries, Best International Film at the World Film Awards in Indonesia, the Gold Award at Worldfest Flagstaff, Best Foreign Film at Worldfest Houston, and was nominated for a Golden Pyramid at the Cairo International Film Festival. Early life and education Born in Kolkata, West Bengal, to a French mother and an Pathan-Indian father who was a diplomat and subsequently travelled extensively between Asia and Europe, Dehlavi is fluent in five languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish and Urdu).(Ali Nobil Ahmad"Meeting Jamil Dehlavi - Pakistan's most intriguing filmmaker" ''The National'' (newsmagazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Muhammad Khan Dehlavi
Sir Ali Muhammad Khan Dehlavi was an Indian politician, educationist, Muslim reformist and a leader in the Pakistan Movement and a Muslim reformist. Early life Dehlavi was born in 1876, to Khan Bahadur Khan. Dehlavi himself had six sons and one daughter. Saadullah Khan Dehlavi, Samiullah Khan Dehlavi, Asadullah Khan Dehlavi, Habibullah Khan Dehlavi, Sikandaruallh Khan Dehlavi, Zareena Khanum Dehlavi and Sultan Ahmed Khan Dehlavi. Samiullah Khan Dehlavi, later rose up to become Ambassador of Pakistan to several countries and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Although he spent most of his life in Bombay, Dehlavi also went to London for higher education during his early adulthood. He returned to India from Britain in 1896, to set up a law firm in Gujarat, Punjab. In 1900 he moved his practice to Hyderabad, Sind, and continued it for the next eight years. Educational work Dehlavi started various literary publications, including an Anglo-Indian publication called "Al-Haq", which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hossein Dehlavi
Hossein Dehlavi ( fa, حسین دهلوی) (September 30, 1927 – October 15, 2019) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian composer. Biography Hossein Dehlavi was born in 1927 in Tehran, Iran and started music with his father Moezeddin Emami who was a pupil of master Ali-Akbar Shahnazi. Dehlavi studied composition at the Tehran Conservatory of Music with Hossein Nassehi and Heimo Tauber. He studied Persian music with Abolhasan Saba and, from 1957 to 1967, was the principal Conducting, conductor of the Persian Fine Arts Administration Orchestra, also known as Saba Orchestra. Dehlavi started to teach at the Persian National Music Conservatory in Tehran since 1957 and from 1961 until 1950 was the director of this conservatory. The conductor Ali Rahbari was one of his pupils. In 1992, with the cooperation of nearly 70 players of Persian instruments, Dehlavi established the Plectrum Orchestra in Tehran. His works included several pieces for Persian instruments and orchestra, voice and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Ali Dehlavi
Shah Abdullah alias Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (1743–1824, Urdu:) was a Sufi Shaykh in Delhi during the early 19th century. He was a master of the Naqshbandi tradition and in other Sufi orders such as Chishti. Biography He was born in 1156 AH (1743 C.E.) in Patiala, Punjab, in present-day India. His father was Shah Abdul-Latif, a scholar and Sufi shaykh belonging to the Qadri tariqah. It is reported in his biographies that his father had a dream before his birth in which he saw Sayyadna Ali, who told him to name the baby on his name (''Ali''). After he grew up, he modified his own name to be Ghulam Ali (literally meaning slave of Ali, a common name in Indian Muslims today). Similarly, his mother had a dream in which she saw Muhammad, who told her to name the baby ''Abdullah''. Hence his real name is still known as Abdullah while his alias is Ghulam Ali. He is reported to have memorized the Quran in a single month's duration. In 1170 AH he came to Delhi to take the oath of alle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi
Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi (also known as Sahbān al-Hind; 1888 – 4 December 1959) was an Indian Muslim scholar and Indian freedom struggle, freedom struggle activist who served as the first general secretary and the fifth president of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He also served as the third rector of Madrasa Aminia and authored books such as ''Fear of Hell'' and ''Key to the Garden of Bliss''. Biography Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi in 1888 in Daryaganj, Delhi. He received his primary education from Abdul Majeed Mustafabadi and Muhammad Yasin Sikandarabadi, and memorized the Quran at Madrasa Hussainia in Delhi. He entered Madrasa Aminia in 1328 Hijri year, AH and graduated in 1336 AH. His teachers included Kifayatullah Dehlawi. Saeed participated in the Indian freedom struggle and was imprisoned eight times. He was arrested in 1921 and jailed in the Central Jail Mianwali for one year. He was arrested for the last time in 1942 and imprisoned in the jails of Delhi, Lahore, Ferozpur and Multan. He was am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Muhammad Kamil Dehlavi
''Hakim Mirza'' Muhammad Kamil ''Dehlavi'' (d. 1809/10), also known as Shahid Rabay (The Fourth Martyr) was an Indian Shia author and a practitioner of Unani medicine in Delhi. Nuzhat-e-Isna Ashariya He authored ''Nuzhat-e-Isna Ashariya'' , a complete response to Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi's Tauhfa Ithna Ashari. It was due to this book that he was poisoned by the Sunni ruler ''Nawab of Jhajjhar'' of Indian state of Jhajhar. He also wrote more than 60 books besides ''Nuzhat–e-Isna Ashariya''. He is buried at ''dargah'' Panja Sharif at Kashmiri Gate, Delhi; alongside him ''Mufassir-e-Quran'' ''Maulana'' Syed Maqbool Ahmad ''Dehlavi'' too is buried. Every year Delhi Shia Waqf Board arranges a five majalis session in the memory of Mirza Muhammad Kamil Dehlavi. See also * The Five Martyrs * Shahid Awwal *Shahid Thani *Shahid Salis *Shahid Rabay *Shahid Khamis * Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi *Tauhfa Ithna Ashari Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlavi (11 October 1746 – 5 June 1824; ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houman Dehlavi
Houman Dehlavi ( fa, هومن دهلوی, born 1971) is an Iranian musician and composer. Biography Houman Dehlavi was born in 1971 in Tehran. He learned to play the santur from his mother, Susan Aslani when he was a child. At the age of ten, he practiced playing the piano for five years with Farman Behboud. Meanwhile, along with his sister Haleh Dehlavi, he also learned playing the violin with musicians such as Manouchehr Ansari, Partow Pourafar, Behrouz Vahidiyeh Azar and Siavash Zahir al-Dini. He first learned the fundamentals of music from his father Hossein Dehlavi and later with musicians such as Parviz Mansouri and Ahmad Pejman. After he finished high school with graphics diploma from Tehran School of Visual Arts in 1993 and with the establishment of classical music courses in Azad University he started his major in playing the piano and benefited from trainings of Rafael Minaskanian and Chista Gharib. As he was studying at the university he started teaching music as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi
Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-Dehlavi (Urdu نصیرالدین چراغ دہلوی ) (–1337) was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order. He was a disciple of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya,Nizamuddin Auliya ''Ain-i-Akbari'', by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. English tr. by Heinrich Blochmann and Colonel Henry Sullivan Jarrett, 1873–1907. Asiatic Society of Bengal, The Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, Volume III, Saints of India. (Awliyá-i-Hind), page 365. "many under his direction attained to the heights of sanctity, such as Nasiruddin Chirag-e-Delhi, Shaykh Naṣíru'ddín Muḥammad Chirágh i Dihlí, Amir Khusro, Mír Khusrau, Shaykh Aláu'l Ḥaḳḳ, Shaykh Akhí Siráj, in Bengal, Shaikh Wajíhu'ddín Yúsuf in Chanderi, Shaykh Yạḳúb and Shaykh Kamál in Malwah, Maul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saidulla Khan Dehlavi
Saidulla Khan Dehlavi was a Pakistani career diplomat. Career He was a senior member of the Pakistan Foreign Service when he retired in 2001 as Ambassador to the European Union. He served as Pakistan's Ambassador to France and as Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. He also served as Ambassador to Switzerland, the Vatican, Yugoslavia, Albania and Ireland. Other postings were to Ankara and New Delhi, and as Director of the Foreign Minister's Office and Director General for South Asia in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dehlavi received international decorations, including the Légion d'Honneur from France. He spoke French, Italian and Turkish. He was appointed member of Aga Khan University Board of Trustees in 2000 and became its Chairman from July 2001 until his death in February 2014. External links Ambassador Saidullah Khan Dehlavi – Chairman Board of Trustees (Board of Trustees section, AKU website accessed on 5.3.14)In Memoriam: Ambassador Saidullah Khan Dehlavi in the Ismaili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulzar Dehlvi
Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlavi (Urdu: ; hi, आनंद मोहन जुत्शी गुलजार देहलवी) (7 July 1926 – 12 June 2020) was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and journalist. Born in old Delhi's Gali Kashmeerian. He was honored by the vice president of India on his 91st birthday for his contribution to Urdu poetry. He devoted his life to the service of Urdu, for which he was honoured by various personalities. He edited the first Urdu science magazine, ''Science Ki Dunya'', which was launched in 1975. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru recited his poetry 'Zarurat Hai Un Naujawano Ki' on 15 August 1947 in Red Fort. His book 'Kulliyat-E-Gulzar' was launched by former Vice President Hamid Ansari. Personal life Gulzar Dehlvi was born to Pandit Tribhuvan Nath (also known as Zar Dehlvi) a Professor and Brij Rani Zutshi. Gulzar Dehlvi attended the Ramjas School and BVJ Sanskrit School. He gained a Master of Arts degree from Hindu College. His father, Pandit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalish Dehlavi
Khalish Dehlavi, who was born Kanwar Krishan Singh Bhayana, is a successful engineer and well-known Urdu poet of India. ''The Hindu'' highlighted the fact that, unusually, he has excelled in two very different fields: "Khalish is also a civil engineer who has designed the Sahar International Airport in Mumbai, the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here, and the election commissioner's office on the city's Ashoka Road. Poetry is Khalish's passion. Though he thanks his construction business for providing him with the luxuries of life, it is at a poetic soiree that Khalish comes into his own." He was born in 1935 in the state of Punjab, India. He graduated from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (also called Indore University) with a degree in civil engineering, but prior to that he obtained his first degree from Aligarh Muslim University. His late father Shri Mohan Lal Bhayana, an Urdu scholar himself, advised him to study Urdu literature. After joining Aligarh Muslim University, he mastered the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |