Daulat Qazi ( bn, দৌলত কাজী; ) was a medieval

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i poet, was born into a Qazi family in the village of Sultanpur in

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. Not getting any recognition at home, he left for

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, where he seems to have been received warmly.

Life and work

Qazi is believed to the first Bengali poet to write under the patronage of the Arakan court. His patron Ashraf Khan was a commanding officer of King

Thiri Thudhamma Thiri Thudhamma ( Arakanese:သီရိသုဓမ္မ; whose personal name was Min Hari (မင်းဟရီ), also known as Salim Shah II was a king of the Mrauk-U Dynasty of Arakan. Reign During Thudhamma's rule of Arakan, Muhammad Kh ...

, who ruled from 1622 to 1638. There is evidence in his poem, that both Khan and Qazi were

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s.Sen, Sukumar (1993). ''Islami Bangla Sahitya'' (in Bengali), Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, , pp.23-33 Ashraf Khan asked Daulat to render the

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narratives of Lor, Chandrani and Mayana into

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. Daulat Qazi died before he could finish his work. It was completed years later by

Alaol Syed Alaol ( bn, সৈয়দ আলাওল; 1607 – 1680) was a 17th century poet of Bengal. His most well known work is ''Padmavati'', which depicts the story of Padmavati, the Sinhalese princess. He is considered to be one of the most prol ...

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1600s births 1638 deaths People from Chittagong District 17th-century Bengalis Bengali writers Bengali poets Bengali-language poets Bengali-language writers 17th-century Bengali poets Date of birth unknown Bengali male poets 17th-century Indian poets {{Bangladesh-poet-stub Bengali Muslims