Language Urdu, English Alma mater University of Karachi Genre Ghazal Role Author | Nationality Pakistani Period contemporary Name Tanwir Phool Education University of Karachi | |
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Notable awards Presidential Award from the Government of Pakistan Books Gulshan-e-Sukhan (Garden of Poetry) | ||
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Tanwir Phool (Urdu: تنویر پھول ), or Tanwiruddin Ahmad Phool (Urdu: تنویر الدین احمد پھول ) (born 1948 in Muzaffarpur, India) is the pen name of Tanwiruddin Ahmad Siddiqui, a Pakistani author and poet, writing in Urdu and English ( "State Bank of Pakistan News" for the month of May 2004 )[1] [2]
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Education and career
He received his education in Karachi, Pakistan. He studied at the D. J. Science College and Urdu College, and graduated in 1971 from the University of Karachi. In 1973 he obtained a master's degree in Islamic history from the university. He worked at the State Bank of Pakistan from 1970 to 1997, until retirement [3] [4]
Works
Phool has written poems in the traditional Urdu forms of the Ghazal, Rubaa'ee, and Dohay, as well as the traditional Japanese form of Haiku[5]
Anwaar-e-Hira
Anwaar-e-Hira is a collection of religious poems by Tanwir Phool. It was published in 1997.
Some of the forms used are Musaddases, with every stanza having 6 lines, and Mukhammases, with every stanza having 5 lines. It was published by the Hira Foundation, Pakistan. The introduction, which includes biographical information on the author, was written by Professor Najmul Hoda of India."Ishariya Jahan-e-Hamd" compiled by Dr.Sohail Shafique of University of Karachi (pages 46, 70, 74 to 78, 89,125 to 128 & 322)