Sulaiman Areeb ( 05 April 1922 - 07 September 1972) was an Indian poet from
Aurangabad
Aurangabad ( is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Aurangabad district and is the largest city in the Marathwada region. Located on a hilly upland terrain in the Deccan Traps, Aurangabad is the ...
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Life
Areeb was of
Hadhrami Arab Muslim ancestry. His forebears migrated from the
Hadramaut
Hadhramaut ( ar, حَضْرَمَوْتُ \ حَضْرَمُوتُ, Ḥaḍramawt / Ḥaḍramūt; Hadramautic: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩, ''Ḥḍrmt'') is a region in South Arabia, comprising eastern Yemen, parts of western Oman and southern Sau ...
to the city of Hyderabad to work under the Nizam of Hyderabad. His father Sulaiman bin Abd al-Razzaq was a commissioned officer in the
Hyderabad State Forces. He was married twice, the second time to Safia Begum, who herself was an Urdu teacher and writer.
He started his literary career at an early age. Initially, he wrote essays and short stories but later turned to poetry. He became known after the independence of India.
He was editor and publisher of ''Saba'' (''The Breeze''), an Urdu literary magazine established in 1955. It played an important role in popularizing modern literary trends and concepts.
Areeb was an active member of the
Communist Party of India (CPI)
Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925.
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and champion of the
Progressive Writers Movement. He strongly supported the
Telangana Peasants' Revolt along with other progressive Urdu writers of Hyderabad in order to give equality and civil rights to the native
Hindu population and end the discrimination and oppression perpetrated by the Muslims.
His poems have been translated into other languages, including English.
[Poet By World Poetry Society 1976]
Work and contribution
*''Pas-e-Gareban'' (Publication Hyderabad Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu 1961)
*''Hyderabad Ke Sha'ir'' Vol II
Further reading
*''Sulaimān Arīb, Shakhsiyat awr Fun'' by Ghausiyah Sultāna,
* ''Life and works of Sulaimān Arīb, 1922–1970'', Urdu poet. Published in 1999.
References
External links
* http://www.awazsayeed.com/Khake/suleman_areeb.htm
1922 births
1972 deaths
Urdu-language poets from India
20th-century Indian Muslims
Writers from Hyderabad, India
Indian people of Yemeni descent
Hadhrami people
20th-century Indian poets
Indian male poets
Poets from Andhra Pradesh
20th-century Indian male writers
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