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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Ghulam Hamdani
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| birth_date = 1751
| birth_place = [[Amroha]], [[Mughal Empire]]<ref>Petievich, Carla. "Rekhti: Impersonating the feminine in Urdu poetry." (2001): 75-90.</ref><ref>Fatihi, A. R. "SEMANTIC SPACE IN LESBIAN LINGO OF REKHTI."</ref> ([[India]])
| death_date = 1844 (aged 93)
| death_place = [[Lucknow]]
| occupation = [[Urdu poet]]
| period = [[Mughal era]]
| genre = [[Ghazal]]
| subject = [[Love]], [[philosophy]]
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'''Ghulam Hamdani''' (1751–1844), known by the [[takhallus]] (nom de plume) of '''Mas'hafi''' (مصحفی ''maṣḥafi''), was an [[Urdu]] [[ghazal]] poet.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and poetics|date=26 August 2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|page=1499|isbn=978-0691154916|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MJVlZjIe5o8C&q=Ghulam+Hamdani+Mushafi&pg=PA1499}}</ref>

==Works==

Before his time, the language known as Hindavi, Dehlavi, Dakhini, Lahori or Rekhta was commonly known as the ''Zaban-i-Ordu'',<ref>Garcia, Maria Isabel Maldonado. "The Urdu language reforms." Studies 26 (2011): 97.</ref> and commonly in local literature and speech, ''Lashkari Zaban'' or Lashkari.<ref>{{cite book|title=Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan|author=Alyssa Ayres|date=23 July 2009|page=19|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=9780521519311}}</ref> Mashafi was the first person to simply shorten the latter name to ''[[Urdu]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Marathwada Under the Nizams|author=P.V.Kate|year=1987|page=136|isbn=9788170990178|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tjndiykddsIC&q=Ghulam+Hamdani+Mushafi&pg=PA136 }}</ref> He migrated to [[Lucknow]] during the reign of [[Asaf-ud-Daula]]. According to one source, his ghazals are full of pathos.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lucnow: the last phase of an oriental culture|date=12 May 1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=255|isbn=9780195633757|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=NgcWAQAAMAAJ&q=Ghulam+Hamdani+Mushafi }}</ref>

There are ten extant collections of his poems, but it is believed that he allowed others for a fee to publish his poems under their own authorship.<ref>{{cite book|title=Muslim Attitudes towards British Rule…|author=Mujib Ashraf|year=1982|publisher=University of Michigan|page=203|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=smZuAAAAMAAJ&q=Ghulam+Hamdani+Mushafi }}</ref> His personal life lacked discipline and his poetry reflects a level of sensuality.<ref>{{cite book|title=Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide|author=Abdul Jamil Khan|year=2006|page=189|isbn=9780875864389|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=nH1HBxdA1UIC&q=Ghulam+Hamdani+Mushafi&pg=PA189 }}</ref> He excelled in lyrics but also composed odes and romances.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Literature Vol.1|year=1946|publisher=Philosophical Library|page=570|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=u1IGAQAAIAAJ&q=Ghulam+Hamdani+Mushafi }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Urdu poets]]
*[[Rekhta]]
*[[Ghazal]]

==References==
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[[Category:Mughal Empire poets]]
[[Category:Urdu-language poets from India]]
[[Category:1750 births]]
[[Category:1824 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Akbarpur, Ambedkar Nagar]]
[[Category:Writers from Lucknow]]
[[Category:18th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:Poets from Uttar Pradesh]]

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