Mahmud Gami

Mahmud Gami (1765–1855) introduced in Kashmiri the Persian forms of the Masnavi and ghazal. [1][2]He is also regarded as the founding figure of Urdu ghazal in Kashmir. [3]

Mahmud Gami
The grave of Mahmud Gami
Personal
Born1765
Adwadar (now Mehmood Abad), Doru Shahabad, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir
Died1855
Resting placeMehmood Abad Park (opposite Mehmood Gami Masjid), Mehmood Abad, Doru Shahabad, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir
ReligionIslam

Biography

Mahmud Gami was born at Mehmood Abad then known as Adwadar - a village in Doru Shahabad, a historical town in South Kashmir. He is noted for his work Yusuf Zulaikha, a poem which is a major contribution to Kashmiri literature. It is the first and the most popular masnavi in Kashmiri. It comprises 700 verses and has also been rendered into the German by the 19th-century European scholar Fredrich Burkhard. After his death Mahmud Gami was laid to rest at a place in his own village.A park has been developed around his grave which is popularly known as 'Mehmood Gami Park'.

He stands out among the poets of his day by the fact that almost all of his work was in the Kashmiri Language. He is famous for his narrative romantic poems Shirin Khusro, Yusuf-Zulaikha, and Laila Majnu". He also versified in kashmiri, the histories of Mahmud of Ghazni, and Haroun Rashid. The Ghazal was Mahmud Gami's forte. His lyrics dealt with Sufi and Love themes, the later predominating.

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References
  1. Datta, Amaresh (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti. ISBN 9788126011940.
  2. "محقق سنز غلطی تہ محقق سندۍ ترت" [Mistake and Aberration of a researcher]. muneeburrahman.com (in Kashmiri). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  3. "آزاد کشمیر میں اردو غزل کا اگلا پڑاو - حقیقت". 25 September 2019.


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