Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
Ghulam Rasool Alampuri (29 January 1849 – 7 March 1892) was a 19th-century Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet and author. He authored a rendition of the Yusuf-Zulaikha folktale in 1873.
Also recorded as Maulvi Ghulam Rasool Alamapuri · G̲h̲ulāma Rasūla · Maulvi Ghulam Rasool Alampuri · Gulam Rasul Alampuri
Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
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- Born
- 29 January 1849
- Birthplace
- Alampur, Hoshiarpur District, Punjab
- Died
- 7 March 1892
- Occupation
- Poet
- Languages
- Punjabi
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Ghulam Rasool Alampuri (29 January 1849 – 7 March 1892) was a 19th-century Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet and author. He authored a rendition of the Yusuf-Zulaikha folktale in 1873.
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Key facts
• Born — 29 January 1849 • Birthplace — Alampur, Hoshiarpur District, Punjab • Died — 7 March 1892 • Place of death — Alampur, Hoshiarpur District, Punjab • Occupation — Poet
Biography
Biography
Ghulam Rasool was born on 29 January 1849 into a Gujjar family from the village of Alampur in Hoshiarpur District. He was only six months old when his mother died and was only 12 years old when his father died. He received primary education from Maulvi Hamid Sahib of his village. He worked as a school teacher in Meerpur (a village in present-day Haryana), from 1864 to 1878. His formal teaching profession ended in 1882 at his resignation from his last school in Mahesar. He died young at an age of 43 on 7 March 1892. Unlike many other Punjabi poets, Ghulam Rasool was not affiliated with any Sufi order.
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Works
Several minor works of Ghulam Rasool were collected as Satt phull (“Seven flowers”). However, his fame rests chiefly on his two major works. First is Dāstān-i Amīr Ḥamza, a lengthy epic based on the life of Hamza, the uncle of prophet of Islam. It was completed in 1869, when he was only twenty. Second is Aḥsan al-qaṣaṣ, based on the long popular romance of the Yusuf and Zulaikha, and completed in 1873.
Legacy
One PhD in Patiala, India, and two PhDs in Punjab, Pakistan, have been awarded on his life and works. At his 119th death anniversary, seminars were organized in Punjab of both Pakistan and India. In Pakistan, a seminar organized by Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), a book written on him by his grandson Masud Ahmed was inaugurated. In 2014, his shrine got media attention in India when the owner of the land, who had taken the adjoining land on lease from the Waqf Board, refused to allow passage to Alampuri's grandson who had come from Pakistan to visit the grave of his grandfather.
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- 1.Mahapatra, B. P. THE WRITTEN LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD: A SURVEY OF THE DEGREE AND MODES OF USE, Volume II: INDIA. Book 1. Constitutional Languages. Laval University Press. 437–439. 1989. 9782763771861.
- 2.Shackle. Christopher. Christopher Shackle. 2013. Ghulām Rasūl. 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_24431.
- 3.Ahmed, Sahibzada Masud. Introduction of the saint and poet Maulvi Ghulam Rasool Alampuri. Academy of the Punjab in North America.
- 4.Sufi poet's dargah mired in controversy. Hindustan Times. 18 September 2014.
- 5.Bhatti, Arshad. Maulvi Ghulam Rasool's 119th death anniversary today. The Nation. 7 March 2011.
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