Khuda Bux Sheikh of Dariyabad
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Khuda Bux Sheikh (Urdu: خُدا بخش شیخ, Hindi: ख़ुदा बख़्श शेख़), also spelled as, Khuda Bakhsh Shai'q of Dariyabad is a noted Urdu writer and poet, from the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India.
He was a follower of a sufi, Haji Waris Ali Shah.[1]
He has written poetry in Arabic, Urdu and Persian. His book Tohmat-ul-Asfiya is the biography of Haji Waris Ali Shah.[2] In 1877 he collected the sayings of Haji Waris Ali Shah in Malfuzat-i-Haji Waris 'Ali Shah.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Nabi Hadi (4 October 1992). Dictionary of Indo-Persian literature. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. http://books.google.com/books?id=qjJmzdJFOHwC&pg=PA554&lpg=PA554&dq=%22Khuda+Bakhsh%22+Sheikh+Barabanki&source=bl&ots=XemU2TWmUu&sig=KiMHEDDBKklVUBu_QqwUC60Dtxw&hl=en&ei=6LtGTL-bOMH78AblpYTGBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Pesonalities: Literary". The Official Website of Barabanki. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT OF INDIA; BARABANKI-225001. http://barabanki.nic.in/person.htm. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
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