Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1961), better known as ''Fani Badayuni'' (his takhallus), was an Indian

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

poet.

Early life and education

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.

Career

Badayuni started composing poetry around Eleven years of age.

In Hyderabad

''Fani'' migrated to

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after the Nizam's diwan Maharaja Kishan Prasad 'Shad', an Urdu lover and poet, got Fani appointed in the department of education.

Bibliography

His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are: * Baqiyat-e-Fani (1926) published by Maktab-e-Agra * Irfaniyat-e-Fani (1938) published by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu * 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)

References

External links

Fani Badayuni
at Kavita Kosh (Hindi font)

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