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Faiz ul-Hasan Saharanpuri

فيض الحسن السهارنفوري

Notable figure 1816–1887 · Source: Tahir Kamran, on the Oriental College tradition, Dawn (25 January 2026); al-Hafiz ʿAbd al-Qadir, «Dawr al-jamiʿat fi taʿlim al-lugha al-ʿarabiyya fi Bakistan», al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), pp. 19, 21 · Second source: Allama Shibli Nomani: a versatile scholar, Radiance Weekly

From India; worked in Pakistan

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Commentator on the Muʿallaqat and Hamasa; Arabic professor

Biography

He trained in Delhi, Rampur and Lucknow and taught Arabic at the Oriental College, Lahore, for a long tenure, heading the line of its professors. Shibli Nomani and Altaf Hussain Hali studied under him. He wrote a commentary on the Hamasa (al-Faydi) and on the seven Muʿallaqat (Riyad al-Fayd), left an Arabic diwan, and edited the journal Shifa al-Sudur.