Fani Badayuni | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shaukat Ali Khan 1879 Badaun, North-Western Provinces, British India |
| Died | 27 August 1961 (aged 81-82) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Occupation | Urdu poet, lawyer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Aligarh Muslim University |
| Genre | Ghazal, Nazm |
Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1941), better known as Fani Badayuni (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet.[1][2]
Early life
He was schooled at Government High School and graduated from Bareilly College in 1901, studied law at Aligarh Muslim University, earning L.L.B. degree in 1906.[3]
Career
Badayuni started composing poetry around twenty years of age.[4]
In Hyderabad
Fani migrated to Hyderabad, India after the Nizam's diwan Maharaja Kishan Prasad 'Shad', an Urdu lover and poet, got Fani appointed in the department of education.[5]
Bibliography
His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are:
- Baqiyat-e-Fani (1926) published by Maktab-e-Agra
- Irfaniyat-e-Fani (1938) published by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu[6]
- Fani ki nadir tahriren: Havashi, tasrihat aur tanqidi ja'ize ke sath by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1968)
- Intikhab-i Fani (Silsilah-yi matbu°at) by Shaukat °Ali Khan Fani Badayuni
- Irfaniyat-i-Fani: Ya'ni Janab Shaukat Ali Khan Sahib Fani Badayuni ke qadim-o-jadid kalam ka mukammal majmu'ah (Silsilah-e-Anjuman-e
- Taraqqi Urdu) by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1939)
- Kulliyat-i Fani (Silsilah-e-matbu'at) by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1992)
See also
References
- ↑ "Delhi's own muse and more". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 2 October 2003. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ the second most celebrated son of the sleepy Awadh town
- ↑ IANS (6 December 2015). "Life as a painful predicament, and Urdu's gloomy poet (Column: Bookends)". Business Standard India. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
- ↑ The Last Nizam By Basant K. Bawa page 59
- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
Further reading
- Fani Badayuni (Urdu writer) by Mughni Tabassum, pp. 92 (1993)
- Jadid Urdu Shairi by Abdl Qadir Sarwari (1946)
- Tareekh-o-tanqeed Adabiyat-e-Urdu by Hamid Husain Qadri (1947) Agra
- A History of Urdu Literature by Muhammad Sadiq-(1967)
- A detailed account of Fani's personal life can be found in the Urdu book Durbaar-e-Durbaar, by Sadq Jaisi and in the English translation (The Nocturnal Court) of the same book by Narendra Luther.
- Kanda, K. C. (1 January 1996). Urdu Rubaiyat. Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited. ISBN 978-81-207-1827-2.
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to Fani Badayuni.
- Fani Badayuni Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine at Kavita Kosh (Hindi font)
- Fani Badayuni at Urdupoetry.com
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