Shahbaaz Bashir Shah

From the earliest stages of the intellectual life of Mufti Nazir Ahmad Qasmi, his writings, whether reformative or biographical, display a maturity of thought matched by an uncommon facility with language. His prose frequently transforms descriptive reflection into vivid narrative, imbuing scenes with a delicate luminosity, as though each sentence were strung like a polished bead upon a thread of eloquence.

His association with poetic literature is by no means incidental. Rather, it constitutes a central and sustained strand of his intellectual development. Among the earliest influences that shaped his literary sensibilities was the poetry of Dr Muhammad Iqbal. What began as admiration soon matured into rigorous study during his years at Darul Uloom Deoband, where he

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