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Ārzū was an Indo-Persian philologist who recognized the relationship between Persian and Indic languages, defended Indians’ role in Persian literature against Iranian chauvinism, and was an important early teacher of what became known as Urdu literature.
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He was most likely born in Gwalior in 1687/1688 (although some sources report a different date and that the place was Agra). He was heir to two impressive mystical lineages [7]. On his mother’s side, he claimed descent from the twelfth-century Iranian mystic poet Farīduddīn ‘Aṭṭār through Muḥammad Ġhaus̄ of Gwalior (d. 1653), and on his father’s, from the Chishtī Sufi saint Naṣīruddīn Chirāgh Dehlavī Chaudhry (d. 1356). He received his early education from his father Ḥusāmuddīn “Ḥusāmī,” a poet-soldier in the Mughal mode, and received further training in Agra. Upon his father’s death in 1703, Ārzū joined the entourage of Prince A‘ẓam Shāh, an important...
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Dudney, A. (2018). Ārzū, Sirāj al-Dīn ‘Alī Ḳhān (d. 1756). In: Kassam, Z.R., Greenberg, Y.K., Bagli, J. (eds) Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_1906
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