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GHANĪMAT KUNJĀHĪ– A LEADING PERSIAN POET OF SABK-I HINDĪ (with an article by A. Bausani)

  • M. Ikram Chaghatai/
  • October 30, 2014
Keywords
Sufi, Persian, Sabk-i-Hindi, Mughal Period, A.Bausani, Urfi, Mysticism, Ghalib, Orientalist, Iranist
Abstract

One of the leading poets of Indian style of Persian poetry, commonly called Sabk-i hindī, was Ghanīmat Kunjāhī who was born in a village near Gujarat (Pakistan) in the second half of the seventeenth century. A. Bausani (d. 1988), a renowned Italian orientalist contributed an important article on Ghanīmat Kunjāhī that was completely unknown to our scholars. Here, that very rare article has been reproduced in original alongwith some introductory remarks relating to its contents

 

References

(i) Urdu and Persian

Ghanīmat Kunjāhī (A selective collection of Urdu and Persian articles on his life and works; hereafter Collection). Edited by Dr. Najm ur-Rashīd and Dr. Muhammad Sābir, Gujarat (Pakistan), 2009).

This collection consists of the following four sections namely:

                    I.      Life and Poetry: (Articles by Sādiq Ali Dilāwari, pp. 17-38, 39-45; Ghulām Rabbāni ‘Azīz, pp. 46-80; Sh. Ikram ul-Haq, pp. 81-102; Gawhar Naushāhi, pp. 103-118; Sayyid ‘Sharafāt Naushāhi, pp. 171-186; Zuhūr ud-Din Ahmad,pp.187-206; Muhammad Zafar Khan, pp.207-220).

                  II.      Works: (Articles by M. ‘Abdullah Chaghatai, pp. 223-226; Sharīf Kunjāhī, pp. 227-233; Muhammad Zafar Khan, pp. 234-242; ibid., pp. 243-265; Sayyid Nūr Muhammad Qādiri, pp. 266-272; Anwar Mas‘ūd, pp. 273-286; Muhammad Zafar Khan, pp. 287-301; ‘Ārif Nawshāhi, pp. 382-326).

               III.      Selection: (Ghazaliyāt, pp. 329-346; Masnawi Nairang-i ‘Ishq, pp. 347-367; Masnawi Gulzār-i Maḥabbat, pp. 368-376).

                IV.      Bibliography: (On Ghanīmat Kunjāhī, pp. 379-400; Extracts from the tazkirahs, pp. 401-407).

Nūr al-Hasan Ansārī: Fārsi Adab ba Ahd-i Awrangzib. Delhi: Indo-Persian Society, 1969, pp. 53-62; Kitābshināsi Ghanīmat Kunjāhī. By Shabānā Sharīf Malik. M. A. thesis (Persian), Punjab University, 2002, also in: Collection, op. cit., pp. 379-400; Tashīh Sharh Mathnawī Ghanīmat. (by Maqbūl Ahmad Gopāmwī). D. Kalīma Akhtar. M. A. thesis (Persian), Punjab University, 2005-2007; Tashīh Sharh Lughāt wa Ishilahat Mathnawī Ghanīmat. (by Mawlana Dost Muhammad). Ed. Sa‘dia Mushafa. M. A. thesis (Persian). Punjab University, 2005-2007; Hunar wa Andeysha-i Ghanīmat Kunjāhī. By Sarwat Jabīn. M. Phil. (Persian).

(ii) German and English:

Grundriss der iranischen Philologie. 1895-1908. Reprinted: Berlin/New York, 1974; D. N. Marshal: Mughals in India. London 1985, p. 151; Nabi Hadi: Dictionary of Indo-Persian Literature. New Delhi 1995, p. 190; Sa‘īd Nafīsī, in Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed., vol. II, Leiden 1965, pp. 1006-1007; Encyclopedia Iranica. Ed. Ehsan Yarshater, art. by ‘Ārif Nawshāhi.

 

* Many years before, A. Bausani also confrifuted on article (in Italian) on this subject: “Contribute a uno definizione dello “stilo inchiano” poesia persiana”, published in Annali (Naples), n.s vii (1985) pp.167-178, that focuses on some important aspects of Sabk-i-Hindi and deserves to be translated in English or Urdu.

 

 

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