Name Jalaluddin Jalal | Role Poet | |
کوه و کمر Dari farsi poem by Jalaluddin Jalal
Jalaluddin Jalal (born 15 October 1923 in Kabul; died 1977 in Kabul) was an Afghan poet and painter.
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Life
Jalal was the son of the treasurer Masdjidi Khan and grew up in an intellectual Afghan family. He was interested in music, art and literature since being a youth. He was a scholar of Ghulam Mohammad Maimanagi (born 1873; died 1935), who was a well-known painter, professor of visual arts and founder of the first art school in Afghanistan. After completing his studies he set up a construction company. 1955 he married and became father of five children. His children live in Europe and the USA. His eldest son Saifuddin Jalal lives as a philosopher, writer and poet in Hamburg, Germany. His daughter Tubah Jalal is also a poet.
His poems are written in the new Persian Dari language in the Indian style. His raw model was the Dari poet Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil Dehlawi (born 1645 in Patna), who is recognised as a master of the Indian style.