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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --><br />
| name = Abdul Halim Sharar<br />
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| birth_name = Abdul Halim Sharar<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1860|09|04}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[North-West Provinces]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1926|12|01|1860|09|04}}<br />
| death_place = [[Lucknow]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], [[British India]]<br />
| occupation = Novelist, poet, essayist, historian, playwright<br />
| nationality = [[India]]n<br />
| period = 1885–1926<br />
| genre = Drama, nonfiction, history, personal correspondence<br />
| notableworks = ''Firdaus-e-Bareen''; ''Zawāl-e-Baghdad''; ''Husn kā Daku''; ''Darbar-e-Harampur''; ''Guzishta Lucknow''<br />
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{{Contains special characters|Urdu}}<br />
'''Abdul Halim Sharar''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|عبدالحلیم شرر}}}}; 4 September 1860 – 1 December 1926)<ref name="Columbia Abdul Halim Sharar biography">{{cite web|title=Abdul Halim Sharar biography|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urduhindilinks/shacklesnell/311sharar.pdf|publisher=columbia.edu|access-date=1 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Pollock2003">{{cite book|author=Sheldon I. Pollock|title=Literary Culture in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&pg=PA881|year=2003|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-22821-4|page=881}}</ref> was an Indian author, [[playwright]], essayist and [[historian]] from [[Lucknow]]. He left behind, in all, hundred and two books. He often wrote about the [[History of Islam|Islamic past]] and extolled virtues like courage, bravery, magnanimity and religious fervour. ''Malikul Azia Vārjina'' (1889), ''[[Firdaws-i Bareen|Firdaus-e-Bareen]]'' (1899), ''Zawāl-e-Baghdad'' (1912), ''Husn kā Daku'' (1913–1914), ''Darbar-e-Harampur'' (1914) and ''Fateh Maftūh'' (1916) are some of his famous novels.<br />
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His book ''Guzishta Lucknow'' is still considered as one of the best narrative describing the genesis of the city and its culture of Lucknow. "جویائے حق" "Juya-e-Haq" is one of his lesser known works, it's the story of Salman the Persian, one of Muhammad's companions. <br />
It is based on the letters of Salman to Bahira a Christian religious figure in Syria, about his journey to Madina to find the last prophet and description of the Muhammad and his dealings. <br />
Abdul Haleem Sharar added the original text of letters in biography of Salman the persian.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Abdul Halim Sharar was born in [[Lucknow]] in 1860. His father Hakim Tafazzul Husain was a scholar of [[Islam]]ic religion and Persian literature. Sharar was educated at home where he learnt [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]. After spending the first nine years of his life at Lucknow, Sharar joined his father at Matiya Burj in Calcutta in 1869, who was in the court of the exiled King of Awadh, Wajid Ali Shah. Sharar remained at Matiya Burj till 1879, and he also contributed to the columns of the Urdu newspaper ''[[Avadh Akhbar]]'' as its Matiya Burj correspondent.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Harcourt|first1=E.S.|title=Lucknow the Last Phase of an Oriental Culture|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Delhi|isbn=978-0-19-563375-7|page=17|edition=seventh}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=HarhH}}</ref> He started learning Greek medicine system but did not finish it.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} In 1880 Sharar married his first cousin.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}<br />
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== Works ==<br />
'''فردوس بریں''' This Historical content tells us when a new sect was tried to invent and was named فرقہ باطنیہ (Sect of Spirituality) and their leaders conspired to rule out Islam and they established highly secret society and they created artificial Paradise. They would make people stunned by their network of spies. They would sneak up a person's personal life and would pretend to tell the hidden (غیب) then that person would become their devotee and would do anything they would demand. History shows they captured a lot of people and made them to kill many renowned people and Scholars (علماء). According to history Halaku Khan (ہلاکو خان) son of Ganges Khan or Changez Khan in Urdu چنگیز خان found these people and he disposed of them all.<ref name="Soul of a city">{{cite news|title=Soul of a city|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/lr/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200440600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040117020540/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/lr/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200440600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 January 2004|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=2002-06-02|access-date=1 January 2013}}</ref> He authored a magazine ''dil gudaaz'' initially from Luckhnow and later from [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] where he was in the service of [[Nizam of Hyderabad]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Abdul Haleem Sharar [1860-1926]|url=http://www.mcrc.org.uk/Rais%20Academy.htm|work=mcrc.org.uk|access-date=22 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329094929/http://www.mcrc.org.uk/Rais%20Academy.htm|archive-date=29 March 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Abdul Haleem Sharar|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urduhindilinks/shacklesnell/311sharar.pdf|work=columbia.edu|access-date=22 May 2013}}</ref><br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
{{Hatnote|In alphabetical order}}<br />
* [[Firdaws-i Bareen|Firdaus-e-Bareen]]<br />
* ''Hasan Angelina'' (1889)<br />
* ''Guzishta Lucknow''<br />
* ''Malikul Aziz Varjinia'' (1889)<br />
* ''Mansur Mohana'' (1890)<br />
* "Philpana"<br />
Asray Qadeem<br />
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Firdaus Bareen<br />
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Islami Swaneh Umriaan<br />
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Darbar-E- Harampur<br />
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Afsana Qais...<br />
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Afsana e Mateen...<br />
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Agha Sadiq Ki Shadi...<br />
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==References==<br />
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