Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of Urdu literature. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry is well known. Both had hundreds of disciples. The era of Aatish-Nasikh was a golden era for Urdu poetry in Lucknow. Aatish is mostly known for his ghazals, and for his amazing and different style of poetry.

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish
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

Life

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

It is also said that Aatish belonged to Faizabad, his father had died early during his childhood, but his deep instinctive taste of poetry gave Aatish easy access to the court of Nawab Mohammed Taqi Khan Taraqqi who took him to Lucknow. In Lucknow he became a disciple of Mushafi, an important poet of the 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 a student of Aatish.[3]

Works
  • Kulliyat-e-Khwaja Haider Ali Atish
  • Deewan-e-Aatish

See also

References
  1. Amresh Datta (1987). The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature Vol.1. Sahitya Akademi. p. 262. ISBN 9788126018031.
  2. Urdu Ghazals: An Anthology. Sterling Publishers. 1995. p. 108. ISBN 9788120718265.
  3. Ali Sardar Jafri. Bharatiya Jnanpith. 2001. p. 155. ISBN 9788126306718.

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