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Fani Badayuni

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Fani Badayuni
BornShaukat Ali Khan
1879
Badaun, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died27 August 1961
(aged 81-82)
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
OccupationUrdu poet, lawyer
NationalityIndian
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
GenreGhazal, Nazm

Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1941), better known as Fani Badayuni (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet.[1][2]

Early life and education

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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.[3][4]

Career

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Badayuni started composing poetry around Eleven years of age.[5][6]

In Hyderabad

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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.[7][8]

Bibliography

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His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are:[9]

  • Baqiyat-e-Fani (1926) published by Maktab-e-Agra[10][11]
  • Irfaniyat-e-Fani (1938) published by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu[12]
  • 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)
  • Kulliyat-i Fani (Silsilah-e-matbu'at) by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1992)[13]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Delhi's own muse and more". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 2 October 2003. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  2. ^ the second most celebrated son of the sleepy Awadh town
  3. ^ IANS (6 December 2015). "Life as a painful predicament, and Urdu's gloomy poet (Column: Bookends)". Business Standard India. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  4. ^ Datta, Amaresh (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0.
  5. ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
  6. ^ Kanda, K. C. (1995). Urdu Ghazals: An Anthology, from 16th to 20th Century (in Urdu). Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 978-81-207-1826-5.
  7. ^ The Last Nizam By Basant K. Bawa page 59
  8. ^ Imam, Syeda (14 May 2008). The Untold Charminar. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-81-8475-971-6.
  9. ^ Patel, Alka; Leonard, Karen (25 November 2011). Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition. BRILL. ISBN 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. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  11. ^ Jalil, Rakhshanda (14 May 2024). Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-81-970426-9-0.
  12. ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
  13. ^ "Fani Badayuni : Read Poems by Poet Fani Badayuni". www.poetrynook.com. Retrieved 7 August 2024.

Further reading

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  • 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. (1 January 1996). Urdu Rubaiyat. Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited. ISBN 978-81-207-1827-2.
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