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{{Infobox person
| name = Abr Ahsani Gunnauri
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| caption =
| birth_name = Ahmed Baksh
| birth_date = {{birth year|1897}}
| birth_place = [[Gunnaur]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1973|11|08|1897}}
| death_place = [[Gunnaur]], India
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
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| occupation = Lecturer, Oriental College, [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]]
}}

'''Abr Ahsani Gunnauri''' was an Indian poet who wrote [[ghazal]] and [[nazm]] in [[Urdu]]. According to one writer, he was a disciple of Ahasan Maarharvi who was a disciple of Mirza Khan [[Daagh Dehlvi]], and he had a direct influence on more than a hundred of poets and belonged to the [[Baháʼí Faith]], for instance writing poems in honor of [[Tahirih]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Sabir Afaqi Táhirih in History: Perspectives on Qurratu'l-ʻAyn from East and West|author=Sabir Afaqi|publisher=Kalimat Press|page=34}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=November 2020}}

==Biography==
Abr Ahasani Gunnauri, whose birth name was Ahmed Baksh, was born in 1897 at [[Gunnaur]], Dist. [[Badaun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]], as the son of Nabi Baksh who was a [[Zamindar]] of [[Gunnaur]]. In 1953 he retired from the service of Oriental College, [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]], where he taught Urdu and Persian. After retirement he returned to Gunnaur where he was murdered on 8 November 1973 by unknown and untraced assailants.<ref name="Open Library">{{cite book | title=Zaviyaha e nigaah | pages=51 | url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15663436W/Zaviyah_e_nigaah}}</ref>

==Literary life==
Abr Ahasani commenced writing [[Urdu poetry]] at the age of nine years when he wrote a [[Naʻat]] in the ghazal form. In his early days he consulted Munshi Sakhawat Hussain Sakha Shahjahanpuri but later on became a disciple of Ahasan Maarharvi. From 1947 to 1953 he had also published and edited the Monthly Ahasan, Rampur.<ref name="Open Library"/>

Thus far, three collections of his ghazals viz. ''Nageene'' (1952), ''Qareene'' (1963) and ''Khazeene'' (1971) have been published. A collection of his nazms titled ''Safeene'' was published in 1952.<ref name="Open Library"/> A few nazms written by him are also included in ''Khazeene''. In addition thereto he had also penned critical work titled ''Meri Islaahen'' in two volumes, the first volume of this work was published in 1956 and the second volume, in 1966, Earlier, in 1949 his critical work, Islah ul islah, which was in response to ''Dastur ul islah'' (1940) written by [[Seemab Akbarabadi]], was published that had made him famous in the Urdu world.<ref name="Open Library"/>

His students include<ref>{{cite book|title=Zaviyaha e nigaah|author=Zia Fatehabadi|publisher=Bazm e Seemab|page=52|url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15663436W/Zaviyah_e_nigaah}}</ref> – Fareed Siddiqui Rampuri (author of " Aayina-e- Rampur", "Jagtey Khwab","Shaqqul-Qamar"), Shauq Asari Rampuri, Taskheer Fehami, Masoodah Hayat (author of ''Buye Suman'' 1981),<ref>{{cite web|title=Universal Digital Library |url=http://www.ulib.org/cgi-bin/udlcgi/ULIBAdvSearch.cgi?=7460 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203010141/http://www.ulib.org/cgi-bin/udlcgi/ULIBAdvSearch.cgi?=7460 |archive-date=2014-02-03 }}</ref> Parkash Nath Parvez,<ref>{{cite web|title=Chandigarh Stories|newspaper=The Tribune, Chandigarh|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040926/cth1.htm|date=2004-08-30 |access-date=2012-08-05}}</ref> Saefi Premi (author of ''Ismail Meeruthi, hayat aur khidmat'')<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature|page=1753|url=https://books.google.com/books?/isbn=8126011947}}</ref> and Unwan Chishti.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL5516044A/Iftikhar_ul-Hasan_Unwan_Chishti |title=Iftikhar ul-Hasan Unwan Chishti |publisher=Open Library |date=2008-10-18 |access-date=2012-08-05}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
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* ''Islah ul islah'' (1949)
* ''Nageene'' (1952)
* ''Safeene'' (1952)
* ''Meri Islaahen'' Volume 1 (1956)
* ''Qareene'' (1963)
* ''Meri Islaahen'' Volume 2 (1966)

==References==
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[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:Poets from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian murder victims]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]
[[Category:People from Sambhal district]]
[[Category:People from Budaun district]]

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