Abr Ahsani Gunnauri was an Indian poet who wrote ghazal and
nazm
''Nazm'' () is a major part of Urdu and Sindhi poetry that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose-style poems. is a significant genre of Urdu and Sindhi poetry; the other one is known as ''ghazal'' ().
is significantly ...
in
Urdu
Urdu (;"Urdu" '' Daagh Dehlvi
Nawab Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlvi ( ur, , 25 May 1831 – 17 March 1905) was a poet known for his Urdu '' ghazals''. He belonged to the old Delhi school of Urdu poetry.
, and he had a direct influence on more than a hundred of poets and belonged to the
Baháʼí Faith
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Abr Ahasani Gunnauri, whose birth name was Ahmed Baksh, was born in 1897 at Gunnaur, Dist. Badaun,
Uttar Pradesh
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,
India
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, as the son of Nabi Baksh who was a
Zamindar
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of Gunnaur. In 1953 he retired from the service of Oriental College, Rampur, where he taught Urdu and Persian. After retirement he returned to Gunnaur where he was murdered on 8 November 1973 by unknown and untraced assailants.
Literary life
Abr Ahasani commenced writing
Urdu poetry
Urdu poetry ( ur, ) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the cultures of South Asia. According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu which are Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghali ...
at the age of nine years when he wrote a Naʻat in the ghazal form. In his early days he consulted Munshi Sakhawat Hussain Sakha Shahjahanpuri but later on became a disciple of Ahasan Maarharvi. From 1947 to 1953 he had also published and edited the Monthly Ahasan, Rampur.
Thus far, three collections of his ghazals viz. ''Nageene'' (1952), ''Qareene'' (1963) and ''Khazeene'' (1971) have been published. A collection of his nazms titled ''Safeene'' was published in 1952. A few nazms written by him are also included in ''Khazeene''. In addition thereto he had also penned critical work titled ''Meri Islaahen'' in two volumes, the first volume of this work was published in 1956 and the second volume, in 1966, Earlier, in 1949 his critical work, Islah ul islah, which was in response to ''Dastur ul islah'' (1940) written by
Seemab Akbarabadi
Seemab Akbarabadi ( ur, ) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui ( ur, , 5 June 1882 – 31 January 1951) was an Urdu poet from British India and Pakistan.
His students include – Fareed Siddiqui Rampuri (author of " Aayina-e- Rampur", "Jagtey Khwab","Shaqqul-Qamar"), Shauq Asari Rampuri, Taskheer Fehami, Masoodah Hayat (author of ''Buye Suman'' 1981), Parkash Nath Parvez, Saefi Premi (author of ''Ismail Meeruthi, hayat aur khidmat'') and Unwan Chishti.