Maqbool Shah Kralawari

Peer Maqbool Shah Kralawari (1820–1877) was a nineteenth-century Kashmiri poet educated in Persian literature and counted among the finest poets of his century in Kashmir.¹ The queue's death year of 1875 is corrected by the articles, which give 1877; Wikidata instead gives 1876.¹² He wrote in both Persian and Kashmiri, turning his hand to devotional poems, satire and the ghazal.¹

His reputation rests on Gulrez ("Scattered Flowers"), his great mathnavi, a free rendering of a Persian romance by Zia-ud-Din Nakhshabi and often judged the finest descriptive poetry of nineteenth-century Kashmiri literature.¹ Abdul Ahad Azad praised the range that moved between registers: when Maqbool writes tasawwuf, Azad said, he seems a Sufi of the highest rank, and when he delivers a message of hope he recalls Iqbal's fervour.¹ Mohammad Yousuf Taing collected most of his surviving poetry and published it in two volumes (1972, 1978).¹³