Alam Muzaffarnagari

Alam Muzaffarnagari (1901-1969), real name Muhammad Ishaaq, was born in Muzaffarnagar, a city in Uttar Pradesh.[1] He was a Qasida, Masnavi, Ruba'i, Nazm and Ghazal writer. He spent his entire life in Muzaffarnagar where he studied Persian and Arabic and later taught these languages at the local Islamiya Inter College. He was a disciple of Seemab Akbarabadi. Two collections of his poems (mainly ghazals), titled Salsabil and Kausar o Tasniim, have been published.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Urdu Authors: Date List maintained by National Council for the Promotion of Urdu http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/urdu_wrld/u_auth/index_all.htm
  2. ↑ Kamala Nasīma, Urdū Sāhitya Kośa (Vāṇī Prakāśana, 1988), pages 33 and 34 http://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=817055134X
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