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Abdullah Lahori

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Abdullah Lahori (Punjabi: عبداللہ لاہوری, romanized: ʿAbdullāh Lāhūrī), also known by his pen name ʿAbdī,[1] was one of the earliest Punjabi prose writer and poet, active between 1616 and 1666 in the Mughal Empire.

Life

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ʿAbdī was born at Malka Hāṇs in Sāhīwāl, Punjab.[1][2] He spent most of his life at Lahore; other than that, little details are known about his life.[1]

Works

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Between 1616 and 1666, ʿAbdī composed a major work on fiqh in Punjabi under the title of Bāra Anva ("Twelve Topics") in 9,000 couplets.[3] These twelve books included:[1]

  • Risāla-yi tuḥfa (1616)
  • Naṣṣ-i farāʾiḍ (1622)
  • Khulāṣat al-muʿāmalāt (1643)
  • Anwāʿ al-ʿulūm (1634)
  • Maʿrifat-i ilāhī (1645)
  • Khayr al-ʿāshiqīn kalān (1644)
  • Farāʾiḍ-i Sharḥ-i Sirājī (1648)
  • Khayr al-ʿāshiqīn khurd
  • Ḥiṣār al-īmān
  • Ṣayqal-i awwal
  • Ṣayqal-i duvvum
  • Ḥamd wa-thanā

In addition to Bāra Anva, he wrote several other treatises including rīsālā fīqh hīndī (1666) and tūhfā tūl tūlaba.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Shackle (2012).
  2. ^ a b Hāshmī (1988), pp. 116–117.
  3. ^ "Bāra Anva". Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Bibliography

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