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| name = Syed Muhammad Latif<br />
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| honorific_suffix = [[Khan Bahadur]] [[Shamsul Ulama|Shams-ul-Ulema]] <br />
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| birth_date = 1851<br />
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British Punjab]]<br />
| death_date = 1902 (aged 51)<br />
| death_place = Lahore<br />
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| parents = Syed Muhammad Azeem <br />
| era = 19th-century<br />
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| main_interests = [[History]], [[Urdu poetry]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Calcutta University]]<br />
| influences = [[Sir Syed Ahmed Khan]]<br />
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'''Syed Muhammad Latif''' (1851–1902) was a 19th-century [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] scholar and historian. Due to his works on the [[history of Punjab]], he is also known as the "Historian of the Punjab".{{sfnp|Kaur|2024}}<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Muhammad Latif was born at [[Lahore]] in 1851, two years after the annexation of Punjab into the [[British Raj]] following the [[second Anglo-Sikh war]]. He belonged to an educated family {{snd}} his father Syed Muhammad Azeem (1815–1885) founded ''[[Lahore Chronicle|The Lahore Chronicle]]'' in 1850, a pioneering English-language newspaper of [[British Punjab]]. Latif received a western-style education at [[Calcutta University]] which helped him to pursue a career in judiciary.{{sfnp|Shafique|2018}}{{sfnp|Alam|1987}}<br />
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Latif started as a translator, and subsequently reader, in the [[Lahore High Court#Chief Court of the Punjab Lahore High Court|Punjab Chief Court]]. He rose to the position of [[assistant commissioner]] of [[Hoshiarpur]] in 1880, and then also held the judicial charges of [[Lahore]], [[Multan]], [[Jalandhar]], [[Gujranwala]], [[Jhang]] and [[Gurdaspur]], working in almost all notable places in Punjab. He was given the title of ''[[Khan Bahadur]]'' in 1892 as well as ''[[Shamsul Ulama|Shams-ul-Ulema]]'' in 1897 for his "History of the Punjab".{{sfnp|Shafique|2018}}<br />
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Latif was married to a niece of [[Syed Ahmed Khan]] in 1875.{{sfnp|Alam|1987}}<br />
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==Academic career==<br />
Latif was a member of various associations, including Amjuman-i-Punjab and [[Asiatic Society of Bengal|Bengal Asiatic Society]]. He was also a fellow of [[University of the Punjab]], Lahore. He was a polyglot, and knew [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[English language|English]] and [[Urdu]].{{sfnp|Shafique|2018}}{{sfnp|Alam|1987}}<br />
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==Works==<br />
Latif's [[Diwan (poetry)|Diwan]] was published in 1870. However, he is mainly known for his works on history. His ''Tarikh-i-Panjab Mah-halaat-i-Shar Lahore'' was published in 1888 in Urdu. Notable English works of Latif include:<br />
* {{Cite book|author=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RzBAAQAAMAAJ|title= History of the Panjáb: From the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Time|year=1891|publisher=<br />
Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited|location=Calcutta|oclc=8385986}}<br />
* {{Cite book|author=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWsTAAAAQAAJ|title= Lahore: Its History, Architectural Remains and Antiquities|year=1892|publisher=<br />
New Imperial Press|location=Lahore|oclc=28302540}}<br />
* {{Cite book|author=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mEBuAAAAMAAJ|title= Agra, Historical & Descriptive: With an Account of Akbar and His Court and of the Modern City of Agra|year=1896|publisher=<br />
Calcutta Central Press Company, Limited|location=Calcutta|oclc=15937007}}<br />
* {{Cite book| orig-date=1891|author=|editor=Minhaj-ud-Din, Syed Muhammad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L71HAAAAMAAJ|title= Early History of Multan|year=1963|edition=second|publisher= People's Publishing House<br />
|location=Lahore|oclc=28302543}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Shafique |first=Muhammad |date=2018 |title=Syed Muhammad Latif: A Pioneer Man of Regional Historiography of Punjab |url=https://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/indianStudies/PDF/1_v4_1_18.pdf |journal=Journal of Indian Studies |location=Lahore |publisher=[[University of the Punjab]]|issn=2520-7288|volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=7–15}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Alam |first=Humera |title=S. M. Latif {{snd}} A Pioneer Muslim Scholar in the Field of History, Archaeology & Architecture |url=https://www.academia.edu/39122259|journal=The Proceedings of the Hijra Celebration Symposium on Islamic Art, Calligraphy, Architecture and Archaeology, March 1–6, 1981 |publisher=[[University of Peshawar]]|location=Peshawar|year=1987|volume=2|issue=2|pages=347–359|oclc=24824620}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Kaur |first=Dr Daljit |date=2024 |title=Revisiting Sikh history through prism of Persian Chronicles |url=https://ijirt.org/Article?manuscript=169096 |journal=International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology |language=en |volume=11 |issue=6 |pages=511–515 |issn=2349-6002}}<br />
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{{morecat|date=October 2025}}<br />
[[Category:1851 births]]<br />
[[Category:1902 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian historians]]<br />
[[Category:Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century historians]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century poets]]<br />
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]</div>UteCansler