Sadia Dehlvi
Sadia Dehlvi (1957 – 5 August 2020) was a Delhi-based activist, writer and a columnist with the daily newspaper, the Hindustan Times, and frequently published in Frontline and Urdu, Hindi and English newspapers and magazines. She was a devotee of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz of Ajmer and Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. She criticized radical interpretations of Islam and called for a pluralistic understanding of Islam.
Sadia Dehlvi
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- Sadia Dehlvi
- Born
- 1957
- Birthplace
- Delhi
- Died
- 5 August 2020
- Occupation
- activist, columnist and writer
- Spouse
- Sayyed Karamat Ali
- Nationality
- India
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She produced and scripted documentaries and television programs, including Amma and Family (1995), starring Zohra Sehgal, a veteran stage actor.
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• Name — Sadia Dehlvi • Other Names — Sadia Sayyed Karamat Ali • Born — 1957 • Birthplace — Delhi • Died — 5 August 2020 • Occupation — activist, columnist and writer • Spouse — Sayyed Karamat Ali
Biography
Biography
Sadia Dehlvi was born in Delhi in 1957 into the Punjabi Saudagaran community. Her grandfather, Yusuf Dehlvi, and her father, Yunus Dehlvi, lived in Shama Kothi on Sardar Patel Road, in New Delhi where she was born. The one-time cultural hub of Delhi, today it houses Bahujan Samaj Party headquarters, (since 2002). In April 2009 Dehlvi published a book on Sufism entitled Sufism: The heart of Islam published by HarperCollins Publishers, India. Her second book, The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi, detailing Delhi's Sufi history was also published by HarperCollins, India and released in February 2012. She edited Bano an Urdu women's journal for the Shama Group, which published Shama an Urdu literary and film monthly. It eventually closed in 1999. Dehlvi died on 5 August 2020.
Personal life
Personal life
She married a Pakistani, Reza Pervaiz, in 1990. She then stayed in Karachi, where the couple had a son, Armaan in 1992. This marriage lasted for 12 years but ended in a divorce when Pervaiz emailed her "Talaq" three times on 8 April 2012. She later married 45-year-old Sayyed Karamat Ali, whom she met at Hazrat Shah Farhad, a Sufi shrine in Delhi, which she had been visiting for the last 20 years. She later referred to herself as Sadia Sayyed Karamat Ali.
Sufism
Sufism
Dehlvi wrote Sufism: The Heart of Islam in which she details Islam's Sufi traditions and the importance of what she sees as the Sufi message of love, tolerance and brotherhood.
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As Actress: • Zindagi Kitni Khoobsoorat Hai (2001) TV series • Amma and Family (1995) TV series Producer: • Not a Nice Man to Know (1998) TV series (associate producer) Writer: • Amma and Family (1995) TV series
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- 1.Profile Doha Network.
- 2.Salim, Lubna. Reviving Delhi's long lost and forgotten home recipes. Hindustan Times. 2018-01-06.
- 3.Maya’s elephant house rises in the rubble of Delhi’s cultural hub The Indian Express, 1 May 2009.
- 4.The Delhi Walla. "Delhi's Muslim Culture is Dying" - Interview with Sadia Dehlvi. the delhiwalla.blogspot.ca. 6 December 2007.
- 5.WISE. Sadia Dehlvi. wisemuslimwomen.org.
- 6.Kumar, Surendra. India of My Dreams. Academic Foundation. 213. 2008. 978-81-7188-689-0.
- 7.Taj, Afroz. The Filmī-ʿIlmī Formula: Shama Magazine and the Urdu Cosmopolis. Journal of Urdu Studies. 1. 2. 177–210. 2020-12-28. 2665-9042.
- 8.Mishra, Smita. Eminent author and food connoisseur Sadia Dehlvi passes away - Times of India. The Times of India.
- 9.Delhi’s Able Daughter: Sadia Dehlvi by Raza Rumi. 24 February 2007.
- 10.‘I am not looking for social approval’ The Indian Express, 10 May 2002.
- 11.'Divorce by Email- Sadia Dehalvi shares her experience of ending a marriage online'.
- 12.Book review: Sufism: The Heart of Islam. 7 September 2010.
- 13.HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd.
- 14.Sufism...
- 15.Vedambooks.
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