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{{Short description|Indian Urdu-language author and mathematician (1936–2022)}}
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{{Infobox mathematician
| honorific_prefix = Doctor, Professor
| name = Karamat Ali Karamat
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| birth_name = Karamat Ali
|birth_date = 23 September 1936
| birth_place = Odia Bazar, [[Cuttack]], [[Orissa Province]], British India
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2022|08|05|1936|09|23}}
|death_place = Cuttack, [[Odisha]], [[India]]
| parents = [[Rahmat Ali Rahmat]] (father)
| occupation = Poet, [[literary critic]], writer, translator, and mathematician
| citizenship = British India [[India]]
|education = [[B.Sc]] [[M.Sc]] [[Ph.D]]
| alma_mater = [[Ravenshaw Collegiate School]] [[Ravenshaw College]] [[Sambalpur University]]
| notable_works = {{hlist|''Aab e Khizar''|''Lafzon Ka Aakāsh''|''Izāfi Tanqīd''}}
| spouse = {{marriage |Zubaida Ali|23 May 1959 |26 January 2020 |end=d.}}
| relatives =
| awards =[[List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for Urdu|Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Urdu]] (2004)
| years_active = 1953–2022
| doctoral_advisor = Mahendra Nath Mishra
| thesis_title = Some Properties of Random Equations
| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/10603/187450
| thesis_year = 1978
| fields = [[Probability theory]]
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'''Karamat Ali Karamat''' (1936–2022) was an Indian [[Urdu]] poet, author, [[literary critic]], and mathematician. Karamat is known for collecting and introducing [[Odisha]]'s [[Urdu literature]] to the Urdu-speaking world. His works include ''Aab e Khizar'' (1963), ''Shu'aon Ki Salīb'' (1972), ''Izāfi Tanqīd'' (1977), ''Lafzon Kā Aasmān'' (1984), and ''Lafzon Kā Ākāsh'' (2000). Karamat received the [[List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for Urdu#Recipients|2004 Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize]] for his Urdu translation, ''Lafzon Kā Ākāsh''.

== Early life and education ==
Karamat was born in Odia Bazar, [[Cuttack]], on 23 September 1936, to [[Rahmat Ali Rahmat]] (1891–1963) and Wazeerun Nisa.<ref name="ashrafi" /><ref name="Rao">{{cite book |last1=Dutt |first1=Kartik Chandra |title=Who's Who Of Indian Writers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&dq=Selected+poems+of+Karamat+Ali+Karamat&pg=PA572|date=1999|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |location=[[New Delhi]] |page=283 |isbn=9788126008735 |access-date= 20 December 2022|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|pp=30-33}} Karamat's father was a year ahead of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] (1897–1945) at [[Ravenshaw Collegiate School]], and Bose and Rahmat placed first in their respective classes.{{Sfn|Naqueeb|2014|p=12–33}} Rahmat was a mathematician, an [[intellectual]], and an Urdu poet.{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=161}}

Karamat learned to read the [[Quran]], basic Urdu, and [[Persian language|Persian]] from Muhammad Kāzim Sūngravi. He also learned Persian from his father, learned science and [[Odia literature]] from tutor Jadumani Rath, and developed a command of [[mathematics]] (particularly [[geometry]]).{{Sfn|Naqueeb|2014|p=12–33}}{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=34}} After finishing his primary education, Karamat completed his ninth standard at Khallikot Collegiate School in [[Brahmapur, Odisha|Berhampur]]{{Sfn|Naqueeb|2014|p=12, 33}} and passed his 10th standard ([[matriculation]]) in the first division of Ravenshaw Collegiate School in Cuttack in 1952.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=07}} In 1954, he passed the [[Higher Secondary School Certificate#India|intermediate]] examination in the first division at [[Ravenshaw College]] in Cuttack.<ref name="Amīn">{{cite web|last1=Mayūrbhanji|first1=Md Rūhul Amīn|title=کرامت علی کرامت: حیات و خدمات|trans-title=Karāmat Alī Karāmat: Life and works|publisher=qindeelonline.com|date=28 July 2022|url=https://qindeelonline.com/karamat-ali-karamat/|access-date=20 December 2022|language=ur|archive-date=28 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728142531/https://qindeelonline.com/karamat-ali-karamat/|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=35}} Karamat received [[Bachelor of Science]] and [[Master of Science]] degrees from Ravenshaw College in 1956 and 1958, respectively,{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=13}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Association |first=Indian Science Congress |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XhgWAQAAIAAJ&q=Prof.+Karamat+Ali+Odisha |title=Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress |date=1964 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bengal |pages=130 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bhushan |first=Ravi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usScAAAAMAAJ&q=Karamat+Ali |title=Learned Asia Educationists Who's Who |date=1992 |publisher=Rifacimento International |pages=245 |language=en}}</ref> and received a [[gold medal]] in addition to his master's degree.{{Sfn|Karāmat|1963|p=178}}{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=298}}

In 1978, he began [[Doctor of Philosophy|doctoral]] studies at [[Sambalpur University]] under the supervision of Mahendra Nath Mishra. Karamat's thesis on [[probability theory]] in mathematics was entitled "Some Properties of Random Equations", and he received his Ph.D. on 13 November 1982.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=07}}{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|pp=35 - 36}} American mathematician [[Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid]] included Karamat's research formulas from his thesis in his own book, ''Random Polynomials''.{{sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=36}}<ref name="Bharucha-Reid">{{cite book |last1=Bharucha-Reid|first1=Albert T.|last2=Sambandham|first2=M.|author1-link=Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid|title=Random Polynomials|date=1986|edition=1st|publisher=Academic Press Inc. Ltd|location= Oval Road, [[London NW1]] |pages=74–77, 100|chapter=D. The Number of Real Zeroes: Coefficients Have a Symmetric Stable Distribution|language=en}}</ref>

== Teaching career ==
Karamat joined the Odisha Educational Service as a lecturer in mathematics on 8 September 1958, and was a lecturer at [[S. K. C. G. Autonomous College, Paralakhemundi|S. K. C. G. College, Paralakhemundi]].{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=07}}{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|pp=35-36}} On 13 July 1959, he became a permanent lecturer in the department of mathematics at Ravenshaw College in Cuttack for a year.{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=13}}{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|pp=36–37}} Karamat was a lecturer at S. K. C. G. College, Paralakhemundi, from 1961 to 1963, and lectured at [[Government Autonomous College, Angul|Science College, Angul]], from 1963 to 1966.{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=37}} He returned to Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, in 1966 as a lecturer and remained there until 1969.{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=37}} From 1969 to 1979, Karamat was a [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] and chaired the department of mathematics at Sundargarh College in [[Sundargarh]].{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=44}}

He was a reader at [[Khallikote Unitary University|Khallikote College]] in Berhampur from 10 July to 10 November 1979.{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=37}} Karamat was then appointed principal of [[Kendrapara Autonomous College|Kendrapara College]], remaining there until 1980.{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=44}} He was a reader at [[Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College]] in Bhubaneswar from February 1981 to May 1982 and at [[Sailabala Das#Life|Shailabala Women's College]] in Cuttack from June to October 1982.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=07}} From October 1982 to 1986, Karamat was vice principal of Ravenshaw College.{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=37}} He was a professor and headed the mathematics department at [[Khallikote Autonomous College]] in Berhampur from February 1986 to 1989, and he was principal of the college until 1990.{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=37}} Karamat was appointed president of the [[Bhubaneswar]] Service Selection Board in 1990{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=37}} and [[Retirement age#Retirement age by country and region|retired from government service]] on 30 June 1995.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=08}}

== Personal life ==
Karamat married Zubaida Ali, the second daughter of Abdur Rafiq Khan of Talpatak,{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=36}}{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=15}} [[Jagatsinghpur district]],{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=7}} on 23 May 1959.{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=36}} They had one son, Qutub Kāmran, and three daughters: Sanobar Sultāna, Durr-e-Shehwār, and Rafī'a Rabāb. They also had five grandsons: Sārim Ali, Āsim Ali, Khurshīd Ālam, Adeeb Salmān, and Naqeeb Salmān, and three granddaughters: Saltanat Jahān, Pārsa Ambarīn, and Ramīza Faizi.{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=15}}{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=10}} In January 2005, he and Zubaida made [[Hajj]]. Zubaida died on 26 January 2020.<ref name="Amīn" />

== Literary works ==
=== Poetry and criticism ===
Karamat had been interested in literature since he was a college student. Among his poetry teachers were Rehmat Ali Rehmat and [[Amjad Najmi]].{{Sfn|Karāmat|2006|p=9–10}}{{Sfn|Karāmat|1963|p=173}}{{Sfn|Naqueeb|2014|p=38}} Karamat learned [[Arabic prosody]] from Manzar Hasan Desnavi at Ravenshaw College,{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=41}}{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=35}} and [[Mazhar Imam]] was his advisor for Urdu prose literature in Cuttack.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2006|p=11}}{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=299}}

He wrote his first ''[[ghazal]]'' on 15 February 1953, and his first ''[[nazm]]'' (poem) on 31 December 1954.{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=34-35}} At the initiative of Mazhar Imam, Karamat collected poems by Odisha's Urdu poets and short biographical sketches and introduced them to the Urdu world in ''Aab e Khizar'' in 1963.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2006|p=11}}{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=299}}<ref name="Heritage">{{cite book |last1=Mohanty|first1=Gopinath|title=Cultural Heritage of [Orissa] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7ZKAQAAIAAJ|date=2002 |edition=|publisher=State Level Vyasakabi Fakir Mohan Smruti Samsad|location= [[Bhubaneswar]] |page=32|isbn=9788190276153 |access-date= 20 December 2022|language=en}}</ref> In June 1965{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=294}} (a year before the publication of ''[[Shabkhoon]]''), he published the bi-monthly magazine ''[[Shakhsar]]'' in Cuttack; it was edited by Amjad Najmi.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2006|p=11}}{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=45}}

Karamat presented Urdu criticism in a novel, rational way;<ref name="Najmi">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Najmi|editor1-first=Amjad|title=Naqsh e Auwal|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/shakhsar-shumara-number-004-ebooks|journal= Bi-monthly Shakhsar|date=1966|volume=2 |issue=4 |page=2|publisher=Amjad Najmi, Buxi Bazar|location=[[Cuttack]]|access-date= 20 December 2022|language=ur}}</ref><ref name="dabistan" >{{cite book |last1=Akhtar|first1=Saleem|title=Tabqeedi Dabistān|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/tanqeedi-dabistan-saleem-akhtar-ebooks|publisher= Sang-e-Meel Publications|location= [[Lahore]] |pages=32–33|edition= 1997|chapter=Izāfi Tabqeed (Relative criticism)|access-date= 20 December 2022|language=ur}}</ref>{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=300}} his critical-essay collections include ''Izāfi Tabqīd'' (1977) and ''Naye Tanqīdi Masāʼil Aur Imkānāt'' (2009).<ref name="Amīn" /> He presented the [[theory of relativity]], expanding the theory of relative criticism first used in Frederick Albert Pottle's book ''The Idiom of Poetry'' (1946).<ref name="dabistan" />{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=300}}<ref name="Shahzād" >{{cite book |last1=Shahzād|first1=Salīm |title=Farhang e Adabiyyāt: Lisāni o Adabi Istilāhāt Ka Tauzīhi o Tanqīdi Mutāla'ah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OG1jAAAAMAAJ&q=%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C+%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%82%DB%8C%D8%AF|publisher= Manẓar Numā Publishers|location=[[Maligaon]] |edition=|date=1998|page=103|access-date= 21 December 2022|language=ur}}</ref> Pottle considered poetry as absolute and criticism as additional; however, Karamat considered both poetry and criticism to be additional.<ref name="dabistan" />{{Sfn|Newalpuri|2001|p=300}}

[[Wahab Ashrafi]] wrote that Karamat has a special place in literature as a poet and critic, and his commitment to mathematics gives his criticism a new dimension.<ref name="ashrafi" >{{cite book |last1=Ashrafi|first1=Wahab |title=Tareekh e Adab|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/tareekh-e-adab-e-urdu-volume-002-wahaab-ashrafi-ebooks?lang=ur|publisher= Educational Publishing House|location=[[Delhi]] |edition=|date=2007|pages=1100–1101|chapter=Karāmat Alī Karāmat|access-date= 20 December 2022|language=ur}}</ref>
According to [[Unwan Chishti]], Karamat's poetry has the colour and harmony of "contemporary awareness", which he has expressed by making the development of science and technology a part of consciousness.<ref name="Chishti" >{{cite book |last1=Chishti|first1=Unwan |title=Harf e Barhana|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/harf-e-barhana-unwan-chishti-ebooks?lang=ur|publisher= Rang Mahal Publications|location=Ansari Road, [[Muzaffarnagar]] |page=157-156|edition=March 1989|chapter=Shu'aon Ki Salīb|access-date= 20 December 2022|language=ur}}</ref> [[Gopi Chand Narang]] said that he has long been a believer in and admirer of Karamat's poetry, agreeing with [[Firaq Gorakhpuri]] that his writings compel reflection.<ref name="Najmi2">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Najmi|editor1-first=Amjad|title=Shu'aon Ki Salīb Mu'āsirīn Ki Nazar Mein|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/sakhsaar-shumara-number-047-amjad-najmi-magazines|journal= Bimonthly Shakhsar|date=1966|volume=2 |issue=47|page=16 |publisher=Amjad Najmi, Buxi Bazar|location=[[Cuttack]]|access-date= 20 December 2022|language=ur}}</ref>

=== Translation ===
Karamat translated works by Odia poets and novelists into Urdu to bring the languages closer together.{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|pp=40-41}} In addition to translating the Odia poems of [[Sitakant Mahapatra]],<ref name="Behera">{{cite book |last1=Behera |first1=Karuna Sagar |last2=Paṭṭanāẏaka |first2=Jagannātha | last3=Das|first3=H. C. |title=Cuttack, One Thousand Years |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRVuAAAAMAAJ&q=Karamat+Ali+Karamat|date=1990|publisher=Cuttack City Millennium Celebrations Committee, The Universe |location=[[Cuttack]] |page=16 |access-date= 20 December 2022|language=en}}</ref> he translated ''Shabdara Ākāsha'' (Mahapatra's poetry collection) into Urdu and received the [[List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for Urdu|Sahitya Academy Translation Prize (2004)]] from [[Gopi Chand Narang]] for ''Lafzon Ka Ākash'' in 2005.{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|pp=14-15, 40-41}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.org.in/?page_id=5785|title=URDU – List of Sahitya Akademi Urdu Translation Prize Recipients}}</ref><ref name="D. S. Rao">{{cite book |last1=Rao |first1=S. Balu |title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61804|date=2004|edition=|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |location=[[New Delhi]] |page=167 |access-date= 20 December 2022|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Aalami">{{cite book|last1=Vikram|first1=Nand Kishore|title=Aalami Urdu Adab (Volume 29)|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/alami-urdu-adab-volume-029-nand-kishor-vikram-magazineslang=ur|publisher=Aalami Urdu Adab|location=[[Delhi]]|edition=|date=November 2009|page=290|chapter=Sahitya Akademi ke Urdu Trājim par In'āmāt ki dastyāb tafsīl|language=ur|access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref> Karamat's other translations included poetry and fiction by [[Bidhu Bhusan Das]], [[Sachidananda Routray|Sachi Routray]], Chintamani Behera, [[Ramakanta Rath]], Sourindra Barik, [[Brahmotri Mohanty]], [[Pratibha Satpathy]], Niranjan Padhi, Laxmi Narayan Mahapatra, [[Surendra Mohanty]], [[Manoj Das]], [[Gopinath Mohanty]] and [[Ramachandra Behera]].{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|pp=40-41}}{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|pp=407-408}} [[Shamsur Rahman Faruqi]] said, "My indefatigable friend Karamat Ali Karamat, in addition to being a fine Urdu poet and critic, is also a tireless translator. He has done much to make Odia writers known to Urdu readers."<ref name=Farooqi>{{cite web |title=The Truth of Fictions |last1=Faruqi|first1=Shamsur Rahman|publisher= |url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/srf/srf_truths_fictions_2009.pdf |access-date= 20 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614152313/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/srf/srf_truths_fictions_2009.pdf |archive-date=2018-06-14 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Awards and honours ===
In addition to the 2004 Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize, Karamat was recognised for his contributions to poetry, literature, and mathematics by the [[Urdu Academy|Urdu Academies]] of [[Bihar Urdu Academy|Bihar]], [[Odisha Urdu Academy|Odisha]], and [[Urdu Academy, Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]], the Najmi Academy in Cuttack, the All India Mir Academy in Lucknow, and the Odisha Mathematical Society.{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=10}}<ref name="P.E.N">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Wadia|editor1-first= Sophia|editor1-link=Sophia Wadia|title=About Karāmat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xMBjAAAAMAAJ&q=karamat+ali+karamat|journal= The Indian P.E.N.|date=1978|volume=44 |issue= |page=14|publisher=P.E.N. All-India Centre|location=[[Mumbai]]|access-date= 21 December 2022|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Qaumi">{{cite book|last1=Qaumi|first1=Niyaaz|title=آل انڈیا میر اکادمی لکھنؤ: اردو زبان و ادب کی ترویج و بقا کے لیے تین دہائیوں پر محیط کارگزاریوں کا اجمالی جائزہ|trans-title=All India Mir Academy Lucknow: An overview of activities spanning three decades for the promotion and survival of Urdu language and literature|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/all-india-meer-academy-lucknow-ijmali-jaiza-niyaaz-qaumi-ebooks?lang=ur| edition=1st|date=1993| location =[[Lucknow]]|publisher =All India Mīr Academy|pages=56–58|access-date= 20 December 2022|language=ur}}</ref><ref name="Narang">{{cite book |last1=Narang |first1=Gopi Chand |author-link=Gopi Chand Narang |url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/hindostaan-ke-urdu-musanafeen-aur-shora-gopi-chand-narang-ebooks?lang=ur |title=ہندوستان کے اردو مصنفین اور شعرا |last2=Azmi |first2=Abdul Lateef |author-link2=Abdul Lateef Azmi |publisher=Urdu Academy |edition=1996 |location=[[Delhi]] |page=433 |language=ur |trans-title=Urdu writers and poets in India |access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref> Azizur Rehman Aziz received his doctoral degree from [[Ranchi University]], supervised by [[Wahab Ashrafi]]. Aziz's thesis was entitled ''Karāmat Alī Karāmat Ka Fikr o Fan'' ({{translation|The Thought and Art of Karamat Ali Karamat}}).{{Sfn|Karāmat|2006|p=07}}

In 1990, A. Russell translated Karamat's Urdu poems into English in ''The Story of the Way and Other Poems''<ref>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Naqvi|editor1-first=Shariful Hasan|editor2-last=Saeedi|editor2-first=Makhmoor|editor2-link=Makhmoor Saeedi|title=English translation of Urdu poems|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/aiwan-e-urdu-shumara-number-006-syed-shariful-hasan-naqvi-magazines-1|journal=Aiwan-e-Urdu|volume=4|issue=6|date=October 1990|publisher=[[Urdu Academy, New Delhi]]|page=51|language=ur}}</ref>{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=387}}<ref name="Larada">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Bardis|editor1-first=Panos|editor1-link=Panos Bardis|title=THE STORY OF THE WAY AND OTHER POEMS (Karamat Ali Karamat): Book review by Jaunita Larada|url=https://journals.scholarsportal.info/details/07423640/v09i0001/99_br.xml|journal= International Journal on World Peace|date=March 1992|volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=99–101|publisher=[[Professors World Peace Academy]]|location=[[New York City|New York]]|access-date= 21 December 2022|language=en|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="LOC">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Office|editor1-first=LOC|title=About Karāmat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqSqIL7BhNkC&q=karamat+ali+karamat|journal= Accessions List, South Asia|date=1991|volume=11 |issue= |page=1109|publisher=E.G. Smith for the U.S. Library of Congress Office|location=New Delhi|access-date= 21 December 2022|language=en}}</ref> with [[Jayant Mahapatra]], Laxmi Narayan Mahapatra, Rajinder Singh Verma, Prafulla Kumar Mohanty, Sailendra Narayan Tripathy, P. Asit Kumar, Kamal Masoompuri, Zohra Jabeen, and M. A. Ahad. ''Selected Poems of Karāmat Alī Karāmat'' was published in 2012.<ref name="Sarma">{{Cite web|last1=Sarma|first1=U Atreya|title= Karamat Ali Karamat: Selected Poems (Book review)|url=https://www.boloji.com/articles/15088/karamat-ali-karamat-selected-poems|date=16 October 2016|access-date=21 December 2022|website=www.boloji.com|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=387}} Elizabeth Kurian Mona translated more of Karamat's poems in ''God Particle and Other Poems'',<ref name="Fathima" >{{cite web |last1=Fathima|first1=Asma|title=Book Review: God Particle and Other Poems|url=https://www.boloji.com/articles/53142/god-particle-and-other-poems|publisher=Boloji.com|date=16 April 2022|access-date=25 December 2022|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Setu" >{{cite journal|editor1-last=Sharma|editor1-first=Anurag|editor2-last=Sharma|editor2-first=Sunil|title=Book Review: God Particle and Other Poems by Semeen Ali|url=https://www.setumag.com/2021/10/book-review-god-particle-and-other-poems.html?m=1|journal= Setu (Bilingual Monthly)|date=October 2021|volume=6 |issue=5 |page=112|location=[[Pittsburgh]], U.S.A|access-date=25 December 2022|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=387}}<ref name="Amīn" /><ref name="Mona">{{cite book|last1 =Karāmat|first1=Karāmat Alī|last2=Mona|first2=Elizabeth Kurian|title=God Particle and Other Poems|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/god-particle-and-other-poems-ebooks| location =[[New Delhi]]|publisher =Educational Publishing House|edition=1st|chapter=Foreword 1 by Prof. Prafulla Kumar|date=2021|page=7|access-date= 21 December 2022|language=en|url-access=registration}}</ref> and Anwar Bhadraki translated his Urdu poems into [[Odia language|Odia]] as ''Ekānta ra swara'' ({{translation|The Outcry of Loneliness}}).<ref name="Amīn" />

=== Books ===
Karamat's books include:{{Sfn|Siddiqui|2012|p=14}}{{Sfn|Karāmat|2016|p=8–9}}{{Sfn|Rahman|Jāmi|2022|p=41–42}}
* ''Aab e Khizar'': A 1963 collection of selected poems by Odisha poets, with short biographical sketches
* ''Shuāʻon Ki Salīb'' (1972)
* ''Izāfi Tabqīd'' (1977)
* ''Lafzon Ka Āsmān'' (1984)
* ''Lafzon Ka Ākāsh'' (2002)
* ''Shākh e Sanobar'' (2006)
* ''Naye Tanqīdi Masāʼil Aur Imkānāt'' (2009)
* ''Gulkada e Subh o Shām'' (2016)
* ''Kulliyāt e Amjad Najmi'' (2017)
* ''Māhir e Iqbāliyāt: Shaikh Habībullāh'' (2019)
* ''Odia Zabān o Adab: Ek Mutālaʻah'' (2020)
* ''Mere Muntakhab Pesh lafz'' (2021)
* ''The Story of the Way and Other Poems'' (translated in 1990 by A. Russell<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1991 |title="IL" Listings |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23337116 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=34 |issue=1 (141) |pages=171–176 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Larada |first=Juanita |date=1992 |title=Review of THE STORY OF THE WAY AND OTHER POEMS; WORDS, WORDS, WORDS |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20751766 |journal=International Journal on World Peace |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=99–101 |issn=0742-3640}}</ref>)
* ''Selected Poems of Karāmat Alī Karāmat'' (translated in 2012 by [[Jayanta Mahapatra]] and others)
* ''God Particle and Other Poems'' (translated in 2021 by Elizabeth Kurian Mona)
* ''Ekānta ra swara'' (translated into [[Odia language|Odia]] by Anwar Bhadraki)

== Death ==
Karamat died on 5 August 2022 in Cuttack, while his [[Funeral prayer (Islam)|funeral prayer]] was performed at Qadam Rasool, Dargah Bazar, Cuttack on 6 August and he was buried in the cemetery of Qadam Rasool.<ref name="Aajkal">{{cite journal|last=Parveen|first=Farhat|title=Deaths|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/aaj-kal-shumara-number-003-farhat-parveen-magazines|journal=Aaj Kal|volume=81|issue=3|date=October 2022|publisher=Publications Division, Delhi|location=New Delhi|page=52|language=ur}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseeratonline.com/archives/179649|title=مشہور شاعر و ادبی نقاد کرامت علی کرامت کا انتقال|trans-title=Famous poet and literary critic Karamat Ali Karamat passed away|date=6 August 2022|accessdate=20 December 2022|website=baseeratonline.com|publisher=Baseerat News Service|language=ur}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qindeelonline.com/karamat-ali-karamat-ka-inteqal/|title=مشہور شاعر، ادیب و ناقد کرامت علی کرامت کا انتقال|trans-title=Famous poet, writer and critic Karamat Ali Karamat passed away|date=6 August 2022|accessdate=20 December 2022|website=qindeelonline.com|publisher=Qindeelonline|language=ur|archive-date=20 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220042032/https://qindeelonline.com/karamat-ali-karamat-ka-inteqal/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="tanzeem">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Farīd|editor1-first=Ashraf|editor2-last=Farīd|editor2-first=Tāriq|title=پروفیسر کرامت علی کرامت کی رحلت سے پورا ادبی حلقہ سوگوار|trans-title=The entire literary circle mourned the death of Professor Karamat Ali Karamat|url=|journal= Qaumi Tanzeem Daily|date=7 August 2022|volume=62 |issue=112|page=8 |publisher=Qaumi Tanzeem|location=[[Patna]]|language=ur}}</ref><ref name="aag">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Alvi|editor1-first=Ahmed Ibrahim|title=پروفیسر کرامت علی کرامت کی رحلت سے پورا ادبی حلقہ سوگوار: آج نمناک آنکھوں سے کٹک کے قدم رسول قبرستان میں سپردِ خاک|trans-title=The entire literary circle mourns the death of Professor Karamat Ali Karamat: Today, with moist eyes, he was laid to rest in the Qadam Rasool cemetery of Cuttack|url=|journal= Aag Daily|date=7 August 2022|volume=16 |issue=162|page=12 |location=[[Lucknow]]|language=ur}}</ref><ref name="Akhbar e Mashriq">{{cite journal |editor1-last=|editor1-first=|title=پروفیسر کرامت علی کرامت کی رحلت سے پورا ادبی حلقہ سوگوار|trans-title=The entire literary circle mourned the death of Professor Karamat Ali Karamat|url=|journal= Akhbār e Mashriq Daily|date=6 August 2022|volume=43 |issue=213|page=8 |publisher=Akhbār e Mashriq|location=[[Kolkata]]|language=ur}}</ref><ref name="Sambad">{{cite news |title=ସମ୍ବାଦ (Sambād)|url=https://m.sambadepaper.com/imageview_22379_466704_4_72_06-08-2022_13_i_1_sf.html|publisher= Sambad|location=[[Bhubaneswar]] |edition=|date=6 August 2022|page=13|accessdate= 20 December 2022|language=Odia}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Amjad Najmi]]
* [[Abdul Mateen Jami]]
* [[Hafizullah Newalpuri]]
* [[Motiullah Nazish]]

== References ==
=== Citations ===
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=== Bibliography ===
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* {{cite book|last1=Siddiqui|first1=Iftikhar Imam|title=Karāmat Alī Karāmat: Ek Mutala|trans-title=Karamat Ali Karamat: A Study|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/karamat-ali-karamat-ek-mutala-iftikhar-imam-siddiqi-ebooks|edition=1st|date= 2012| location =Lāl Kuan, [[Delhi]]|publisher =Educational Publishing House|language=ur}}
* {{cite book |last1=Rahman |first1=Azizur|last2=Jāmi|first2=Abdul Matīn|author-link2=Abdul Mateen Jami|title=Urdu Adab Ka Koh e Noor Karāmat Alī Karāmat|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/urdu-adab-ka-koh-e-noor-karamat-ali-karamat-abdul-matin-jami-ebooks|date=2022 |publisher=[[Odisha Urdu Academy]]|location=Bhubaneswar|language=ur}}
* {{cite book|last1=Karāmat|first1=Karāmat Alī|title=Gulkada e Subh o Sham|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/gulkada-e-subh-o-sham-karamat-ali-karamat-ebooks|chapter=Biographical Sketch|pages=7–10| edition=1st|date= January 2016| location =Lāl Kuan, [[Delhi]]|publisher =Educational Publishing House|language=ur}}
* {{cite book|last1=Karāmat|first1=Karāmat Ali|title=Shakh e Sanobar|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/shakh-e-sanobar-karamat-ali-karamat-ebooks|chapter= Foreword by Hafeezullah Newalpuri| edition=1st|date= October 2006|pages=9–14|location =[[Cuttack]]|publisher =Vidyasagar Printers|language=ur}}
* {{cite thesis |last1=Newalpuri|first1=Hafizullah|author-link1=Hafizullah Newalpuri|title=Orissa Mein Urdu|trans-title=Urdu In Orissa|publisher=[[National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language]] |location= [[New Delhi]]|date= 2001 |hdl= |url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/odisha-mein-urdu-hafeezullah-newalpuri-ebooks|language=ur}}
* {{cite book|last1=Naqueeb|first1=Khawar|author-link1=Khawar Naqeeb|title=Bayāz e Rahmat (A poetry collection of Rahmat Ali Rahmat [1891–1963])|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/bayaz-e-rahmat-ebooks|edition=1st|date= 2014|location =[[Delhi]]|publisher =Educational Publishing House|language=ur}}
* {{cite book|last1=Karāmat|first1=Karāmat Alī|title=Aab e Khizar|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/aab-e-khizr-shora-e-odisa-ka-intikhab-e-kalam-ma-tazkira-ebooks|chapter=Karāmat Alī Karāmat| edition=1st|date= August 1963|location =Dewan Bazar, [[Cuttack]]|publisher =Orissa Urdu Publishers|language=ur}}
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |last=Qasmi |first=Ruhul Amin |date=2024-08-18 |title=Karamat Ali Karamat (1936–2022): Life and services |url=https://abulmahasin.com/کرامت-علی-کرامت-1936-2022ء-حیات-و-خدمات/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820172905/https://abulmahasin.com/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA-1936-2022%D8%A1-%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA/ |archive-date=20 August 2024 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=abulmahasin.com |language=ur |edition=2nd}}
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Karamat Ali Karamat - Revision history

Md Omar Faruq at 03:26, 29 December 2025