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{{Short description|Indian poet and writer (1907–1998)}}{{Infobox academic
| name = Ata Kakwi
| occupation = Professor, writer, poet
| discipline = History, religion
| sub_discipline = Sufism, Bihar
| workplaces = [[Patna University]]
| birth_name = Syed Shah Ataur Rahman
| birth_date = 1907
| birth_place = [[Kako, Bihar]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|18 March 1998|1907|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Patna]], [[Bihar]], India
| resting_place = Campus of Dargah Shah Arzan, Patna
}}

'''Syed Shah Ataur Rahman''' (1907–18 March 1998) popularly known as '''Ata Kakw'''i was an Indian poet and writer.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcRHAAAAMAAJ&q=ata+kakvi |title=A Peep Into Seventyfive Years of Bihar: Souvenir, 75th Annual Session of Numismatic Society of India |date=1987 |publisher=Bihar Research Society |pages=70 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0MbvTkqUxUC&q=%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80 |title=K̲h̲udā Bak̲h̲sh Lāʼibreri jarnal |date=2008 |publisher=K̲h̲udā Bak̲h̲sh Oriyanṭal Pablik Lāʼibreri |pages=124 |language=ur}}</ref> He was a contemporary of Wali Azimabadi, Akhtar Qadri, Azizuddin Balkhi and [[Fasihuddin Balkhi]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sinha |first=Bindeshwari Prasad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6k5AQAAIAAJ&q=ata+kakvi |title=Comprehensive History of Bihar: pt. 2 [1976] |date=1976 |publisher=[[Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute]] |pages=502 |language=en}}</ref> He served as the head of the Department of Persian at [[Patna University]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Siddiqi |first=Muhammad Zubair |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMgxAAAAMAAJ |title=Khuda Bakhsh Lectures, Indian and Islamic |date=1993 |publisher=Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library |pages=6 |language=ur}}</ref>

He was a director of Arabic and Persian Research Institute, Patna.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZuZtAAAAMAAJ&q=ata+kakvi |title=Indo-iranica |date=1970 |publisher=Iran Society. |pages=117 |language=en}}</ref> He had served as the professor in the Urdu, Arabic and Persian department of [[Langat Singh College|Langat Singh College, Muzaffarpur]] from 1937 to 1954 succeeding Dr. Abdul Majeed Akhtar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University |url=https://www.brabu.ac.in/Home/collegeView?cid=300 |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=www.brabu.ac.in}}</ref> He was related to the [[Naqshbandi|Abulolai-Naqshbandi]] order of Sufism.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=अता काकवी का परिचय {{!}} सूफ़ीनामा |url=https://sufinama.org/poets/ata-kakvi-1/profile?lang=hi |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=Sufinama |language=hi}}</ref>

He was the father of Arshad Kakvi, a known Urdu poet.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ashraf |first=Md Umar |date=2022-02-18 |title=अरशद काकवी, सहते रहे हैं ज़ुल्म हम अहल-ए-ज़मीन के ~ इल्ज़ाम आसमान पे धरते रहे हैं हम - Heritage Times हिन्दी |url=https://hindi.heritagetimes.in/arshad-kakvi-1926-1963/ |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=hindi.heritagetimes.in |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Syed Shah Ataur Rahman was born to Syed Shah Ghafurur Rahman Hamd Kakvi in [[Kako, Bihar|Kako]], [[Jehanabad district]], [[Bihar]] in 1907.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzweAAAAMAAJ&q=kakvi |title=ʻArabī, Fārsī, aur ʻalūm-i Islāmiyah men̲ Bihār kā ḥiṣṣah: semīnār men̲ pesh kiʼe gaʼe maqālāt kā majmūʻah |date=1983 |publisher=Idārah-yi Taḥqīqāt-i ʻArabī va Fārsī |pages=6–13 |language=ur}}</ref>

He passed matriculation from Gaya Zila School, Gaya.<ref name=":0" /> He was a student of [[Shad Azimabadi]] in poetry.<ref name=":2" />

== Books ==

* ''Pesh-i guftār: dībācon̲ kā majmūʻah'', 1989
* ''Miʻyār va mīzān: tabṣire'', 1989
* ''Taḥqīqī mut̤ālaʻe: Taḥqīqī maqālon̲ kā majmūʻah'', 1965
* ''Ās̲ār-i Kāko'', 1986
* ''Mut̤ālaʻah-yi Shād'', 1966
* ''Ḥarf-i avvalīn: apnī taṣānīf va tālīfāt ke dībāce'', 1989
* ''Gulhā-yi rang rang'', 1970

== Death and legacy ==
He died on 18 March 1998, in [[Patna]] and buried under the campus of Dargah Shah Arzan.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vYBjAAAAMAAJ&q=%D8%B9%D8%B7%D8%A7+%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C |title=Qaumī zubān |date=1999 |publisher=Anjuman Taraqqī-yi Urdū Pākistān |pages=71 |language=ur}}</ref>

The Urdu Directorate, Bihar organized a commemorative program for Ata Kakwi on 26 October 2022 at the Abhilekh Bhawan Bihar State Archive Directorate, Patna.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bharat |first=E. T. V. |date=2022-10-26 |title=Joint Events Orgnized in Patna عطا کاکوی اور اختر اورینوی کی مشترکہ تقریبات کا انعقاد |url=https://www.etvbharat.com/urdu/national/state/bihar/joint-events-of-ata-kakvi-and-akhtar-orenvi-organized-by-bihar-urdu-directorate/na20221026205727749749890 |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=ETV Bharat News |language=ur}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

=== Bibliography ===

* {{Cite journal |last=Azad |first=Aslam |title=Ata Kakvi- A poet of lyrics |journal=Khuda Baksh Oriental Library Journal |language=Urdu |location=Patna, Bihar |publisher=[[Khuda Baksh Oriental Library]] |volume=166 |issue=1 |pages=193–200}}

== External links ==

* [https://www.rekhta.org/authors/ata-kakwi/profile Ata Kakwi] on [[Rekhta (website)|Rekhta]]

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[[Category:1907 births]]
[[Category:1998 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Jehanabad district]]
[[Category:Writers from Bihar]]
[[Category:Urdu-language Indian poets]]
[[Category:Urdu-language Indian writers]]
[[Category:Urdu-language non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:Patna University alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Patna]]

Ata Kakwi - Revision history

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