Mazar-e-Shura
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مزارِ شُعاراء | |
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![]() A Grave in the Mazar e Shura cemetery. | |
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Established | 1587 |
Location | Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
Country | India |
Type | Historic |
Style | Mughal |
No. of graves | 5 |
Mazar-e-Shura (
Interments
Shah Abul Fatah
A native of Iran who came to India, Shah Abul Fatah became a
Haji Jan Mohammed Qudsi
Haji Jan Mohammed Qudsi (1582-1646) was a native of the Mashhad in Iran. He joined the court of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan where he rose to become MulkushShura (poet laureate). It is said that Shah Jahan had Qudsi weighed in gold, which was then presented to him as a reward for his poetic excellence. When his son Mohammed Baqir died in the prime of his youth in Mashhad, Qudsi was heartbroken and decided not to go back to his native land but remain in India. Later he settled permanently in Kashmir. He was a great admirer of Ghani Kashmiri and the admiration was mutual. An anecdote recounts that one of Qudsi's couplets was reworded by a school boy as he was reciting it in front of that boy's teacher. Qudsi cheerfully accepted the correction and appreciated the boy's wit.
Abu Talib Kaleem
A native of the Persian city of
Mohammed Quli Saleem
Another native of Iran, Mohammed Quli Saleem also went India in the reign of Shah Jahan. He joined the court of the prime minister
Tughra Mashhadi
As his name indicates, Tughra Mashhadi was a native of Mashhad in Iran. He was an accomplished poet, but had a bad habit of satirizing his contemporaries including Qudsi and Ghani. He was the only person against whom Ghani wrote harsh words. The reason for Ghani's displeasure was the use of abusive language by Tughra when satirising him. Tughra went to Kashmir with Mirza Abul Qasim (who is also buried in the cemetery). In later life he apparently became demented and lived like a madman in a shop in Nayidyaar in the Rainawari district of Srinagar.
References
- Waqiat i Kashmir' by Khwaja Muhammad Azam Didamari(1746)
- Ghani Kashmiri by Dr Riyaz Ahmed Sherwani (Doctoral thesis of the author submitted to Tehran Universityand subsequently published in book form by J & K Cultural Academy in 1972)
- Kashir Encyclopaedia (Kashmiri) translated from Kashmiri into Urdu and quoted in Sheeraza (J & K Cultural Academy) vol 35, No 11-12 (1991)
- Kuliyat e Sauda edited by Dr Mohammed Hassan (New Delhi, 1996)
- Kuliyat e Mir edited by Abdul Bari Aasi (New Delhi, 1940)
- Deewan e Ghani edited by Ali Jowad Zaidi (Reprinted Srinagar, 1984)