Gujarat Urdu Award
It's a pity that award given by Gujarat Urdu Akademi has a Hindi name, nothing against Hindi but ...
Dr Saiyed Ashraf will be presented Gaurav Puraskar for 2004 by the Gujarat Urdu Sahitya Akademi.
Express News Service
Ahmedabad, January 2: URDU-Persian scholar Dr Saiyed Waheed Ashraf has been named recepient of the Gaurav Puraskar 2004 by the Gujarat Urdu Sahitya Akademi. The award will be presented to him in the last week of this month at a special function, to be held in Vadodara.
Hailing from the family of well-known Sufi saint Saiyed Ashraf Jahangir Simnani, Ashraf (72) was born in Kichhauchha Sharif in Uttar Pradesh and moved to Gujarat after doing his MA and Ph D from Muslim University, Aligarh.
He taught Persian language for six years at the M S University before joining the University of Madras where he taught for nearly 15 years. Saiyed has written a dozen books on poetry, mysticism and religion.
A large number of followers throng his house for spiritual guidance. Reacting to the award, he said: ‘‘It is a good feeling that the Akademi is felicitating me. I had received the President’s Award at the hands of late Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1995 prior to this,’’ he said.
‘‘I am currently trying to get my next book published, which is a bilingual book, in Persian and English,’’ he said. But for an accident in which he was injured, the book would have been published long ago with the help of funds from the Indian Council of Historical Research, he said.
Akademi president Waris Alvi said the Gaurav Puraskar comprises Rs 25,000 in cash, a shawl and a plaque. ‘‘He is a deserving scholar who is little known here at present because of his long stay in south India,’’ Alvi said.
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Urdu scholar bags award
Dr Saiyed Ashraf will be presented Gaurav Puraskar for 2004 by the Gujarat Urdu Sahitya Akademi.
Express News Service
Ahmedabad, January 2: URDU-Persian scholar Dr Saiyed Waheed Ashraf has been named recepient of the Gaurav Puraskar 2004 by the Gujarat Urdu Sahitya Akademi. The award will be presented to him in the last week of this month at a special function, to be held in Vadodara.
Hailing from the family of well-known Sufi saint Saiyed Ashraf Jahangir Simnani, Ashraf (72) was born in Kichhauchha Sharif in Uttar Pradesh and moved to Gujarat after doing his MA and Ph D from Muslim University, Aligarh.
He taught Persian language for six years at the M S University before joining the University of Madras where he taught for nearly 15 years. Saiyed has written a dozen books on poetry, mysticism and religion.
A large number of followers throng his house for spiritual guidance. Reacting to the award, he said: ‘‘It is a good feeling that the Akademi is felicitating me. I had received the President’s Award at the hands of late Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma in 1995 prior to this,’’ he said.
‘‘I am currently trying to get my next book published, which is a bilingual book, in Persian and English,’’ he said. But for an accident in which he was injured, the book would have been published long ago with the help of funds from the Indian Council of Historical Research, he said.
Akademi president Waris Alvi said the Gaurav Puraskar comprises Rs 25,000 in cash, a shawl and a plaque. ‘‘He is a deserving scholar who is little known here at present because of his long stay in south India,’’ Alvi said.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=112672
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