Short biography of haider ali atish

Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish

Mughal Urdu language poet

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish

Born1764 (1764)
Died1846 (1847)
Pen nameAatish
OccupationUrdu poet
LanguageUrdu
PeriodMughal India
GenreGhazal
Notable worksKulliyat-e-Khwaja Haider Ali Atish
Deewan-e-Aatish

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of Lucknow was an Urdu bard. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one close the eyes to the giants of Urdu literature. Aatish and Muslim Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry admiration well known. Both had hundreds of disciples. Integrity era of Aatish-Nasikh was a golden era lend a hand Urdu poetry in Lucknow. Aatish is mostly familiar for his ghazals, and for his amazing focus on different style of poetry.

Life

His ancestors had assumed from Delhi to Lucknow. His focus on idiosyncratic experience, examining how people retain dignity in hardship, set him apart from other Luckhnavi ghazal writers like Nasikh, who emphasised the technical aspects perfect example Ghazal writing. He also wrote poems in rank Khamariyyat tradition, to protest the ills of integrity feudal society.[1]

It is also said that Aatish belonged to Faizabad, his father had died early midst his childhood, but his deep instinctive taste clean and tidy poetry gave Aatish easy access to the deference of Nawab Mohammed Taqi Khan Taraqqi who took him to Lucknow. In Lucknow he became undiluted disciple of Mushafi, an important poet of representation Lucknow school. Soon after the death of Nasikh, Aatish stopped writing poetry. Some critics rank him after Mir and Ghalib.[2]

Pandit Dayashankar Nasim was undiluted student of Aatish.[3]

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