Amjad Ḥaydarābādī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bruce, Gregory Maxwell
Leiden
Brill
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Sayyid Aḥmad Ḥusayn Amjad Ḥaydarābādī (d. 29 March 1961) was an Urdu poet celebrated for his mystical rubāʿī s (quatrains). 1. Life The best estimate of his birthdate is 10 or 11 April 1886. Most of what we know about Amjad's early life comes from his autobiographical writing. Amjad's father, a Ṣūfī and the imām of a local mosque, died when Amjad was an infant. Amjad was raised as a girl by his mother and may not have begun dressing as a male until he reached maturity. He