Ali Haidar (poet)

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use Pakistani English|date=March 2018}} '''Ali Haidar ''' (1690–1785) was an eighteenth-century [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Sufi]] poet.{{sfnp|Shackle|2007}}

==Biography== Ali Haidar was born at Kazia near [[Multan]].{{sfnp|Hanif|2000|pages=1–5}} He is believed to have lived a long life from 1690 to 1785, however, [[Christopher Shackle]] questions this tradition due to the length of the proposed span and the obscurity of his biographical details.{{sfnp|Shackle|2007}} As with most other [[Sufism in Punjab|Punjabi Sufis]] of the time, Ali Haidar was affiliated to the [[Qadiriyya|Qādirī]] Sufi order, and his humble devotion to the [[Sayyids]] shows that he himself was not of Sayyid status.{{sfnp|Shackle|2007}} Ali Haidar spent most of his life in the village of his birth, where he died.{{sfnp|Hanif|2000|pages=1–5}} He was subsequently buried at Qāḍī Ghālib near the [[Faisalabad District]], where his shrine was later built.{{sfnp|Shackle|2007}}

==Poetry== For a long time, Ali Haidar was virtually forgotten. His works were re-discovered and published in 1907 by a Lahore publisher, and the later editions are based on this version.<ref> {{harvp|Hanif|2000|pages=1–5}}; {{harvp|Shackle|2007}}. See also {{harvp|Alī Haidar|1907}}</ref> Ali Haidar's verses (''abyāt'') are in the format of [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] ''bayt'', which according to Shackle display his mastery over the [[Word play|wordplays]] of Punjabi poetry. In addition to these Punjabi ''abyāt'', he also wrote six ''sīḥarfī'', which show influence from the southwestern dialectal forms or Multani, now known as [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]].{{sfnp|Shackle|2007}}

Ali Haidar lived during the time of collapse of [[Mughal Empire|Mughal power]] in Punjab, and made occasional references to the resulting upheaval.{{sfnp|Shackle|2007}} He condemned the "traitors" who were, according to the poet, offering wealth to the foreign raiders from [[Persia]] and [[Khurasan]].{{sfnp|Hanif|2000|pages=1–5}}

==References== {{reflist}}

===Sources=== * {{EI3|last= Shackle|first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Shackle|year=2007|title=ʿAlī Ḥaydar|url=https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_SIM_0208|doi=10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_SIM_0208}} * {{Cite encyclopedia |last=Hanif |first=N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3GXOqPa67MC&pg=PA1 |title=Ali Haidar (A. D. 1690–1785)|encyclopedia= Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia |date=2000 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=978-81-7625-087-0 |language=en|pages=1–5}}

==Further reading== * {{Cite book |last=Alī Haidar |title=Mukammal majmūʿa-yi abyāt-i ʿAlī Ḥaydar |date=1907|url=https://archive.org/download/mukamal-majmua-ibiyaat-ali-haider/Mukamal_Majmua_Ibiyaat_Ali_Haider.pdf|editor=Faḍl al-Dīn Kakkezaʿī |publisher=|language=Punjabi |isbn= |location=Lāhaur|oclc=}} * {{Cite book |last=Alī Haidar |title=Kulliyyāt i ʻAlī Ḥaidar |date=1988|url=https://archive.org/details/kulliyatealihaidermultani/page/n1/mode/1up |publisher=Pākistān Panjābī Adabī Borḍ|language=Punjabi |isbn=978-969-411-103-2 |location=Lāhaur|oclc=21407384}}

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