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{{more citations needed|date=May 2010}}
{{Infobox military person
| name =Mirza Aqil Hussain Barlas
| image =Aquil Hussain Barlas.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date ={{Birth date|df=yes|1927|07|29}}
| death_date ={{Death date and age|df=yes|1989|12|21|1927|07|29}}
| placeofburial_label =
| placeofburial =[[New Delhi]], [[Delhi (India)]]
| birth_place =[[Delhi]] [[British Indian Empire]]
| death_place =Delhi, India
| placeofburial_coordinates = 
| nickname =
| allegiance ={{UK}}<br/>{{IND}}
| branch ={{army|UK}}
| servicenumber =
| commands =Incharge [[Egyptian Embassy|New Delhi Delhi Branch]]
| battles_label =
| relations =[[Nawab Qasim Jan]]
| laterwork =
}}

'''Mirza Aqil Hussain Barlas''' (29 July 1927 – 21 December 1989) was a [[lawyer]] and [[diplomacy|diplomat]], known for his [[translation]]s from [[Persian language|Persian]]. He was in charge of the [[Egypt]]ian [[Embassy]] in [[New Delhi]] [[India]].

==Background==
[[Nawab]] Mirza Aqil Hussain [[Barlas]] was a direct descendant of [[Qasim Jan|Nawab Qasim Jan]],{{cn|date=June 2020}} the [[eponym]] of Gali Qasim Jan and Qasim Khani Mosque in Ballimaran, [[New Delhi]].

His father was Nawab Shakir Hussain Barlas,{{cn|date=June 2020}} a [[barrister]] from [[Oxford University]], [[England]], and his mother was Bibi Mehmooda Begum, the sister of [[Ikbal Ali Shah|Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah]].

He produced an [[English language|English]] translation of the first part of the ''Bostan'' of [[Saadi (poet)|Saadi]] of [[Shiraz]], published in [[London]] by the [[Octagon Press]]<ref name=Bostan>{{cite book
| last = Saadi of Shiraz, translated by Mirza Aqil-Hussein Barlas
| title = The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard)
| publisher = [[Octagon Press]]
| year = 1984
| isbn = 0-86304-034-9}} See [https://www.amazon.com/Bostan-Saadi-Orchard-Books-II/dp/0863040349 Amazon page]</ref> (the publishing firm of his cousin [[Idries Shah]],<ref name="DTOB">{{cite news
|last=Staff
|title=Idries Shah – Grand Sheikh of the Sufis whose inspirational books enlightened the West about the moderate face of Islam (obituary)
|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001301712421770&rtmo=qMuJX999&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/96/12/7/ebshah07.html
|accessdate=2008-10-16
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000525070609/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001301712421770&rtmo=qMuJX999&atmo=99999999&pg=%2Fet%2F96%2F12%2F7%2Febshah07.html
|archive-date=2000-05-25
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> the son of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and grandson of Nawab Syed Amjad Ali Shah). Idries Shah recounts a story about his cousin in his book ''[[Kara Kush]]'' (in the chapter 'Mirza in a mulberry tree').

His only child was Adil Hussain Barlas.{{cn|date=June 2020}} He died of [[heart failure]] in the [[Govind Ballabh Pant]] [[hospital]] in [[New Delhi]], and was buried in the family [[graveyard]] in Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Shah family}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barlas, Aqil Hussain}}
[[Category:Nawabs of India]]
[[Category:1927 births]]
[[Category:1989 deaths]]
[[Category:History of Delhi]]
[[Category:People from Delhi]]

Aqil Hussain Barlas - Revision history

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