Raaz Chandpuri

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Raaz Chandpuri (born Mohammad Sadiq; 189a2-1969) [1] [2] was an Indian poet and literary critic, known for writing Urdu ghazal and nazm. He was amongst the earliest disciples of Seemab Akbarabadi and attained the status of an Ustaad for himself. He was a master of Urooz.[ citation needed ]

His first known collection of ghazals, Nawa e Raaz, was published in 1961 by Adara Anees of Allahabad. However, he is better known for his critical appraisal of the life and work of Seemab Akbarabadi, Dastaan e chand, on which exercise Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi too had relied while writing the biography of Seemab Akbarabadi titled - " Zikr e Seemab ". [3]

Written by Sarwar Alam Raz Sarwar and published by Kitab Ghar, Baqiyaat e Raaz is the only critical appraisal of the life and work of Raaz Chandpuri. [4]

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References

  1. Urdu Authors:Date list ( in alphabetical order) corrected up to 31 May 2006 - S.No.1642 - Raaz Chandpuri> maintained by National Council for Promotion of Urdu, Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development "National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language". Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  2. urduanjuman.com Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine .
  3. Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi. Zikr e Seemab. OL   24596008M.
  4. Baqiyaat. kitabghar.com.[ dead link ]