Fani Badayuni
Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 – 27 August 1961), better known as Fani Badayuni (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet.
Fani Badayuni
- Name
- Fani Badayuni
- Birth Name
- Shaukat Ali Khan
- Born
- 1879
- Birthplace
- Badaun, North-Western Provinces, British India
- Place of death
- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Occupation
- Urdu poet, lawyer
- Education
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Nationality
- India · Dominion of India
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Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 – 27 August 1961), better known as Fani Badayuni (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet.
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Fani Badayuni (1879–1961) was a poet and writer, a national of the Dominion of India and India. The poet was born in Budaun and died in Hyderabad. Fani Badayuni was educated at Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University.
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• Name — Fani Badayuni • Birth Name — Shaukat Ali Khan • Born — 1879 • Birthplace — Badaun, North-Western Provinces, British India • Died — 1879 • Place of death — Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India • Occupation — Urdu poet, lawyer • Education — Aligarh Muslim University • Genre — Ghazal, Nazm
Early life and education
Early life and education
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.
Career
Career
Badayuni started composing poetry around Eleven years of age.
In Hyderabad
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.
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- 1.Delhi's own muse and more. The Hindu.
- 2.the second most celebrated son of the sleepy Awadh town
- 3.IANS. Life as a painful predicament, and Urdu's gloomy poet (Column: Bookends). Business Standard India. 2015-12-06.
- 4.Datta, Amaresh. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti. Sahitya Akademi. 1988. 978-81-260-1194-0.
- 5.Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
- 6.Kanda, K. C. Urdu Ghazals: An Anthology, from 16th to 20th Century. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 1995. 978-81-207-1826-5.
- 7.The Last Nizam By Basant K. Bawa page 59
- 8.Imam, Syeda. The Untold Charminar. Penguin UK. 2008-05-14. 978-81-8475-971-6.
- 9.Patel, Alka. Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition. BRILL. 2011-11-25. 978-90-04-21209-1.
- 10.Fani Badayuni, born as Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1961) (Urdu شوکت علی خان فانی بدایونی ), was an Urdu poet. kavishala.com.
- 11.Jalil, Rakhshanda. Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu. Simon and Schuster. 2024-05-14. 978-81-970426-9-0.
- 12.Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
- 13.Fani Badayuni : Read Poems by Poet Fani Badayuni. www.poetrynook.com.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 13
- Jalil, Rakhshanda. Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu. kavishala.com Cite book. Simon and Schuster. 2024-05-14. 978-81-970426-9-0.
- Irfaniyat-e-Fani (1938) published by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
- 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)
- Fani Badayuni : Read Poems by Poet Fani Badayuni. www.poetrynook.com.
- 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. Urdu Rubaiyat. Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited. 1996-01-01. 978-81-207-1827-2.
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