Hafiz Amiruddin Dehlvi

Biography

Hafiz Amiruddin Dehlvi is known on this site from one book, Qissa-e-Maqtool-e-Jafa (قصۂ مقتول جفا), an Urdu story whose title means roughly 'the tale of one killed by cruelty'. The title Hafiz is an honorific for a person who has learned the whole Quran by heart, and Dehlvi ties him to Delhi, one of the great centres of Urdu letters. Beyond these clues I could not find a reliable published account of his life, so this page does not give his dates or the course of his career.

The book belongs to the body of Urdu prose narrative that developed in north India during the nineteenth century, when writers began to shape tales, moral stories and romances into forms that later became the Urdu novel. Its title points to a story of suffering caused by injustice, though the plot should be checked in the text itself. No checked source for his life or for the book's first publication was available, so the details here are general and should be treated with care.

This biography was written by a language model without a source; treat details with care.

Books

1. قصۂ مقتول جفا

   by حافظ امیر الدین دہلوی

   Hafiz Amiruddin Dehlvi's Qissa Maqtool-e-Jafa, also called Fasana-e-Gham-Amood, is a short dastan of the nineteenth century in the old storyteller's manner. It opens in a great, prosperous city of India, where the king puts a question to his four ministers and three of them…

   Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.