Abdullah Lahori
17th century Punjabi Poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
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
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]
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