Izzatullah Bengali (, ) was an 18th-century

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author who wrote in the

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Biography

Izzatullah Bengali was from

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, the erstwhile capital of the

Bengal Subah The Bengal Subah (Bengali language, Bengali: সুবাহ বাংলা, ), also referred to as Mughal Bengal and Bengal State (after 1717), was one of the puppet states and the largest subah, subdivision of The Mughal India, Mughal Emp ...

. At the time, the

was the official language in Bengal and other parts of

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. After coming across ''Taj al-Mulk Gul-e-Bakawali'', a popular Hindustani story, and narrating it to his friend Nazar Muhammad, Izzatullah wrote the story in Persian for his friend in 1722. A manuscript of his work is located at the

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library. In 1803, his work was translated into

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 ...

by Munshi Nihal Chand Lahori of

Fort William College Fort William College (also known as the College of Fort William) was an academy of Orientalism, oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Lord Wellesley, then Governor-Gener ...

with the title ''Mazhab-e-Ishq'' (Religion of Love).

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