Seemab Akbarabadi
| Seemab Akbarabadi | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui |
| Born |
5 June 1882 Agra, India |
| Died |
31 January 1951 (aged 68) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Genres | Qat'aa, Rubai, Ghazal, Nazm, Noha, Salaam, essays. short stories, novels, biographies and translations. |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, writer, publisher |
Seemab Akbarabadi (Urdu: سیماب اکبرآبادی) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui (Urdu: عاشق حسین صدیقی, 5 June 1882 – 31 January 1951) was an acclaimed Urdu poet from India.
Seemab Akbarabadi, a descendant of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, the first Caliph of Islam, was born in Imliwale makaan of Kakoo Gali, Nai Mandi, Agra, as the eldest son of Mohammad Hussain Siddiqui, who was himself a Urdu poet, author of several books, a disciple of Hakim Amiruddin Attaar Akbarabadi, and an employee of the Times of India Press, Ajmer. Seemab had said that his forefather had migrated from Bukhara sometime during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and made Agra his home, however, according to Mohan Lal his great-grandfather had migrated from Bukhara during Aurangzeb's reign. Seemab learnt Persian, Arabic and logic from Jamaluddin Sarhadi and Maulavi Rashid Ahmed Gangohi. The death of his father in 1897 forced Seemab to give up his studies and seek a livelihood first in Agra and then in Kanpur before joining the railways service at Ajmer, from which he resigned in 1922 and returned to Agra. In 1923 he founded the publishing imprint, Qasr-ul-adab. He had four sons and two daughters and the youngest son, Mazhar Siddiqui, continued his work in Karachi and published many of his father's manuscripts. He belonged to the Daagh School. He hailed from Agra where his family had lived for nearly three hundred years.
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