Khwaja Muhammad Azam Kaul Didamari (died 1765) was a

Sufi Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism. Practitioners of Sufism are r ...

Kashmiri writer in the

Persian language Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision ...

Khwaja Khawaja () is an honorific title used across the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia, particularly towards Sufi teachers. It is also used by Kashmiri Muslims and Mizrahi Jews—particularly Kurdish Jews. The name or title ...

means "master", Didamari means from the Didamar quarter of

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. His history entitled ''Waqiat-i-Kashmir'' (The Story of Kashmir), also known after the writer's name as ''Tarikh-i-Azami'' (History by Azam), was published in Persian in 1747. Urdu translations were published by Munshi Ashraf Ali (Delhi, 1846), and Khwaja Hamid Yazdani (Jammu, 1988). After his death his son Khwaja Muhammad Aslam added to the work with his ''Gauhar-i-Alam'' (Jewels of the World).Somnath Dhar Kalhana 1978 - Page 79 "Besides his literary attainments, Khawaja Muhammad Azam was held in esteen as a saint. After his death in 1765 A.D. his son, Khwaja Muhammad Aslam. adding to his work, wrote Gauhar-i-Alam (Jewels of the World)."

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18th-century Persian-language writers 1765 deaths 18th-century Indian historians Sufi poets Writers from Srinagar Year of birth unknown Scholars from Jammu and Kashmir {{Kashmir-stub