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{{short description|Indian Muslim scholar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|name = Syed Ahmad Dehlvi
|title = [[Khan Sahib]]
|honorific_prefix = Mawlāna
|religion = Islam
|birth_date =8 January 1846
|birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[Mughal India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1918|5|11|1846|1|8}}
|image = Syed Ahmad Dehlvi.jpg
|notable_works = ''[[Farhang e Asifiya]]''
}}

'''Syed Ahmad Dehlvi''' or '''Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlawī''' (8 January 1846 – 11 May 1918) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Muslim scholar, linguist, lexicographer, philologist, educationist and an author of [[Urdu language]]. He compiled the ''[[Farhang e Asifiya|Asifiya dictionary]]''.

==Biography==
Syed Ahmad Dehlvi was born on 8 January 1846 in [[Delhi]], [[Mughal India]].<ref name="dawn">{{cite news |last1=Parekh |first1=Rauf |title=Farhang-i-Aasifiya: a dictionary reflecting cultural heritage |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/794661/farhang-i-aasifiya-a-dictionary-reflecting-cultural-heritage |access-date=3 January 2021 |work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |date=29 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="asir">{{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=[[Asir Adrawi]]|page=116}}</ref> He was the son of Hafiz Abd al-Rahman Mongheri, a descendant of [[Abdul Qadir Jilani]].<ref name="encyclopedia"/>

Dehlvi assisted S W Fallon in dictionary projects between 1873 and 1879.<ref name="dawn"/> He taught at Shahi Madrasa, located in the Arab Sarai, in [[Delhi]].<ref name="encyclopedia"/> He was later appointed as a teacher of Urdu and Persian in the Municipal Board High School, in [[Himachal Pradesh]]. He was a fellow and examiner at [[University of the Punjab]] and served as the vice-manager of Government Book Depot in [[Lahore]].<ref name="asir"/>

In 1914, Dehlvi was honored with the title of [[Khan Sahib]] by the [[British Raj|Government of British India]].<ref name="encyclopedia">{{cite book |editor1-last=Lal |editor1-first=Mohan |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |location=[[New Delhi]] |page=4262 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Encyclopaedia_of_Indian_Literature/KnPoYxrRfc0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Syed+Ahmad+Dehlvi&pg=PA4262&printsec=frontcover |date= 1992|access-date=3 January 2021 |chapter=SYED AHMAD DEHLAVI}}</ref><ref name="asir"/> He died on 11 May 1918.<ref name="dawn"/>

==Literary works==
Dehlvi's works include:<ref name="asir"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Profile of Syed Ahmad Dehlvi on WorldCat |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84109650/ |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref>
* ''[[Farhang e Asifiya]]''
* ''Hādi-un-Nisa''
* ''Lughāt-un-Nisā''
* ''ʻIlmullisān : yaʻnī, insān kī ibtidāʼī, darmiyānī aur ak̲h̲īr zabān''
* ''Rusūm-i Dihlī''
* ''Qiṣṣah-yi Mihr Afroz''
* ''Munāẓirah-yi taqdīr-o-tadbīr, maʻrūf bih kunzulfavāʼid.''

==Legacy==
Zahrah Jafri wrote ''Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlavī: ḥayāt aur kārnāme'' ({{translation|Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlavī: Life and works}}).<ref>{{cite book |author1=Zahrah Jaʻfrī |title=Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlavī: ḥayāt aur kārnāme |oclc=659319893 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/sayyid-ahmad-dihlavi-hayat-aur-karname/oclc/659319893&referer=brief_results |access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{Cite book|title=Tazkirah Mashāhīr-e-Hind: Karwān-e-Rafta|author=[[Asir Adrawi]]|page=116|location=[[Deoband]]|publisher= Darul Muallifeen |language=Urdu |edition = 2 April 2016}}

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[[Category:1846 births]]
[[Category:1918 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Delhi]]
[[Category:Urdu-language writers]]
[[Category:Linguists]]
[[Category:Indian linguists by century]]

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