Nasim Amrohvi
Nasim Amrohvi or Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi was a Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer who was born as Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi on 24 August 1908 in Amroha, British India.
He belonged to a Taqvi Syed family. His father was Syed Barjees Hussain Taqvi and his mother was Syeda Khatoon. His grandfather was Shamim Amrohvi who was bestowed the title Farazdaq-e-Hind.
In 1950, he migrated to Pakistan after the independence in 1947, settling in Khairpur. He moved to Karachi in 1961 and eventually died there on 28 February 1987.
Work
Nasim Amrohvi was a member of Urdu Lughat Board. Over several years, he compiled an Urdu dictionary entitled Nasim-ul-Lughat. For each word Nasim-ul-Lughat provides not only its meaning, usage, and related proverbs but also the verses containing it. He also used to write Marsiya besides being a lexicographer.Books
Some of his major works include:- Khutbat-e-Mushiran
- Adabī kahāniyān̲
- Nasīm ul-lug̲h̲āt, Urdū
- Dust banu dust bana'u
- Risālah tauz̤ih al-masāʼil. Translation of a book on Shīʻah doctrines by Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī Akbar al-Khūʼī
- Mūmin-i āl-i Ibrāhīm. Two poems on Shiite themes
- Musaddas-i Nasīm. On the prophet Muhammad
- Farhang-i Iqbāl. Large book on the philosophy of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, national poet of Pakistan
- Urdū lug̲h̲at : tārīk̲h̲ī uṣūl par. Dictionary of Urdu language
- Mars̲iyah-yi Josh. Elegy on the death of Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of Pakistan
- Cashmah-yi g̲h̲am. Elegies, chiefly on the martyrs of the battle of Karbala
- ʻAllāmah Iqbāl ke cāron̲ davāvīn. Dictionary of terms used in the works of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, national poet of Pakistan
- ''Nazm-e-Urdu''