About: Mohammad Alvi

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

Mohammad Alvi (10 April 1927 – 29 January 2018; sometimes spelled Mohammed Alvi) was an Indian poet known for writing Urdu gazals, particularly a collection of Urdu gazals titled Chautha Aasmaan (4th sky) which became a subject of dispute between the Muslims scholars when he wrote a couplet titled "send a good prophet". He was later referred to as a "kafir" through a fatwa by the Imam of Jama Masjid in 1994, and he subsequently withdrew the line from his book after he was criticised by the Islamic theology school, Ahmedabad.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Mohammad Alvi (10 April 1927 – 29 January 2018; sometimes spelled Mohammed Alvi) was an Indian poet known for writing Urdu gazals, particularly a collection of Urdu gazals titled Chautha Aasmaan (4th sky) which became a subject of dispute between the Muslims scholars when he wrote a couplet titled "send a good prophet". He was later referred to as a "kafir" through a fatwa by the Imam of Jama Masjid in 1994, and he subsequently withdrew the line from his book after he was criticised by the Islamic theology school, Ahmedabad. The recipient of Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Chautha Aasmaan poetry and Ghalib Award by Ghalib Academy, he is believed to have significantly contributed to Urdu literature. His authorship includes eighty-six gazals, sixty-six nazms, some couplets and six books, including Khali Makaan, a poetic book comprising gazals. (en)
dbo:almaMater
dbo:award
dbo:birthDate
  • 1927-04-10 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:deathDate
  • 2018-01-29 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:genre
dbo:language
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 65040637 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4778 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1083638972 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:almaMater
dbp:awards
dbp:birthDate
  • 1927-04-10 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Ahmedabad, India (en)
dbp:deathDate
  • 2018-01-29 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Ahmedabad, India (en)
dbp:genre
dbp:language
dbp:name
  • Mohammad Alvi (en)
dbp:notableWorks
  • Chautha Aasmaan (en)
dbp:occupation
  • Poet (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Mohammad Alvi (10 April 1927 – 29 January 2018; sometimes spelled Mohammed Alvi) was an Indian poet known for writing Urdu gazals, particularly a collection of Urdu gazals titled Chautha Aasmaan (4th sky) which became a subject of dispute between the Muslims scholars when he wrote a couplet titled "send a good prophet". He was later referred to as a "kafir" through a fatwa by the Imam of Jama Masjid in 1994, and he subsequently withdrew the line from his book after he was criticised by the Islamic theology school, Ahmedabad. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Mohammad Alvi (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Mohammad Alvi (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License