Bedam warsi biography
Bedam warsi poetry...
Bedam warsi biography
Bedam Shah Warsi
Bedam Shah Warsi | |
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| Born | 1876 Etawah, Uttar Pradesh |
| Died | 1936 |
| Nationality | Indian |
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Bedam Shah Warsi (1876 - 1936) was an Indian sufi saint and poet who wrote in the Urdu, Persian and Purbi languages.[1]
He was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh in 1876.
His birth name was Ghulam Hussain, while 'Bedam' was his takhallus, and 'Warsi' is a nisba indicating his discipleship to his spiritual master Waris Ali Shah. He died on November 24, 1936 and was buried in the Shah Owais Graveyard in Dewa, the town of his spiritual master.[2]
Bedam's poems have become a part of the modern qawwali repertoire[3][4][5] and have been recited by the likes of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Fareed Ayaz[6], Begum Akhtar, K.
L. Saigal,[7] and also sung by Abida Parveen in Coke Studio Pakistan.[8]
In his preface to Bedam's diwan, the Urdu essayist Khwaja Hasan Nizami writes t