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{{short description|People from Delhi}}
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| birth_name = Hasan Nizami
| birth_date = 6 January 1878
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], India
| death_date = July 31, 1955
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], India
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| known = Poetry, [[Tariqa|Sufi tariqa]]
| occupation = Writer
| title = Khawaja
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| successor = [[Khwaja Hasan Sani Nizami]]
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'''Khwaja Hasan Nizami'''<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Ernst|first1=C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-UYDAAAQBAJ&q=khwaja+hasan+sani+nizami&pg=PA113|title=Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond|last2=Lawrence|first2=B.|date=30 April 2016 |publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-137-09581-7|language=en}}</ref> (1878 [[Delhi]]-31 July 1955 [[Delhi]]) ({{lang|ur|{{Nastaliq|خواجہ حسن نظامی}}}}) was a [[Sufi]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=By Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 2|year=1988|isbn=9788126011940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&q=Khwaja+Hasan+Nizami+humorist&pg=PA1619}}</ref> of Chishti Islamic order, a known Urdu essayist<ref>{{cite book|title=Ilmi Encyclopaedia of General Knowledge|year = 1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqAEAAAAYAAJ&q=Khwaja+Hasan+Nizami+humorist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tully|first=Mark|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmgQ3mcKL9wC&q=literary+Works+of+Khwaja+Hasan+Sani+Nizami&pg=PT208|title=India In Slow Motion|date=2017-11-22|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5118-097-5|language=en}}</ref> and humorist and sadist who wrote many essays for the ''Mukhzun Akhbar'' (Magazine). He wrote more than 60 books he also wrote about the incidents of [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|war of 1857]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Safvi|first=Khwaja Hasan Nizami & Rana |title=How Bahadur Shah Zafar's daughter had to flee from Delhi after he lost his empire |url=https://scroll.in/article/900263/how-bahadur-shah-zafars-daughter-had-to-flee-from-delhi-after-he-lost-his-empire|access-date=4 July 2020 |work=The Scroll}}</ref> while [[Mulla Wahidi]], writes that he had over five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects to his credit (quoted in Naqvi, 1978). Being a Sufi he had many disciples and it appeared in his literature.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

== Works ==
Nizami "was of Nizamuddin Auliya's known ''silsilã'', and widely honoured in the Muslim world."<ref name=Goel1995Appendix>{{cite book |title=Muslim Separatism, Causes and Consequences |url=http://voiceofdharma.org/books/muslimsep/index.htm |first1=Sita Ram |last1=Goel |publisher=Voice of India, New Delhi (also known as Voice of Dharma) |isbn=978-8185990262 |date=1995 |chapter=Appendix, Islamic Manifesto for India |chapter-url=http://voiceofdharma.org/books/muslimsep/app.htm}}</ref>

===Literary Works===
Khwaja wrote many books including:<ref>{{Citation|title=Khwaja Hasan Nizami|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6860740.Khwaja_Hasan_Nizami|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dehalvi |first=Khawaja Hasan Nizami |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCkqnQEACAAJ&q=khwaja+hasan+nizami+books|title=Tareekh-E-Firon |date=2004 |publisher=Hafiz Jamil Printers |language=ur}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5v5sDwAAQBAJ&q=Khwaja+Hasan+Nizami+books&pg=PT162 |title=City of My Heart: Four Accounts of Love, Loss and Betrayal in Nineteenth-Century Delhi |date=18 September 2018 |publisher=Hachette India |isbn=978-93-5195-259-6 |language=en}}</ref>
*Fãtami Dãwat-i-Islam (1920)<ref name=Goel1995Appendix/>
*Gadar ki Subah aur Sham
*Tareekh e Firaun
*Madar e Hamdard
*Sair e Delhi
*Government Aur Khilafat
*Ghalib's Diary
*Bahaddur Shah zafar's diary (publisher)<ref>{{Cite news|date=3 May 2007 |title=A chronicler of 1857 par excellence|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/a-chronicler-of-1857-par-excellence/story-oBCFmBiuEkFgGlBGc2U2JN.html |access-date=1 July 2020|work=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref>
*Begumat Kay Ansoo: Dehli Kay Afsanay.

=== Commemoration of Muharram ===
As most of the Muslims had migrated to Pakistan after partition in 1947 AD, Delhi had no Shia orator to address the Majlis during Muharram. At this crucial juncture, Khwaja Hasan Nizami filled the gap by addressing Majlis at [[Panja Sharif, Delhi|Panja Shareef]]. He was also supported by Maulana Ahmad Saeed, Maulana Zubair Qureshi and Justice Vyas Dev Mishra in his endeavor to ensure sustainability of commemoration of Muharram against odds. Despite Khawaja Hasan Nizami Being part of the Ahl us Sannah wal Jammah.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://vsgoi.blogspot.com/2014/11/dargah-panja-sharif-symbol-of.html |title=Heritage Guru: Bahadur Shah Zafar's Favorite Dargah-Panja Sharif |date=27 November 2014 |website=Heritage Guru |first1=Mazhar |last1=Naqvi |access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref>

Dr Majid Deobandi says, he had written a PhD thesis on Khwaja Hasan Nizami.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr. Majid Deobandi|url=http://www.majiddeobandi.in/personality.html|access-date=2020-07-04|website=www.majiddeobandi.in}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Wikiquote}}
* Marcia Hermansen, Professor at Loyola University Chicago has compiled a bibliography of [https://www.academia.edu/2331888/Khwaja_Hasan_Nizami_Bibliography Khwaja Hasan Nizami's Publications] He also wrote Stories like Beghmat ke Ansuo And Thele Wala ShehzaDa
* Rekhta.org has a selection of Khwaja Hasan Nizami's publications available to read. [https://www.rekhta.org/authors/khwaja-hasan-nizami/all]

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