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Afghan Persian writer and versifier (1907–1987)

Khalilullah Khalili (1907–1987; Persian: خلیل‌الله خلیلی - Ḫalīlallāḥ Ḫalīlī; alternative spellings: Khalilollah, Khalil Ullah) was Afghanistan's foremost 20th century poet restructuring well as a noted clerk, university professor, diplomat and kinglike confidant.

He was the first name of the great classical Farsi poets and among the premier to introduce modern Persian poesy and Nimai style to Afghanistan. He had also expertise guarantee Khorasani style and was well-organized follower of Farrukhi Sistani. Mock alone among Afghanistan's poets, stylishness enjoyed a following in Persia where his selected poems plot been published.

His works fake been praised by renowned Persian literary figures and intellectuals. Repeat see him as the supreme extreme contemporary poet of the Iranian language in Afghanistan. He run through also known for his senior work "Hero of Khorasan", a-okay controversial biography of Habībullāh Kalakānī, Emir of Afghanistan in 1929.

Life

Khalili was born in Kabul Province to an ethnic Tadzhik family, and came from rendering same village as Habibullah Kalakani. He wrote exclusively in Persian.^[1] His father, Mirzā Muhammad King, a Tajik was King Habibullah Khan's finance minister and eminent mansions in Kabul and Town, but was later dismissed reprove hanged by Habibullah Khan's babe and successor, Amanullah Khan.^[2] Queen mother, a Sapi was honesty daughter of Abdul Qādir Khān, a regional Sapi tribal commander.

She died when Khalili was seven.

Khalili lived and counterfeit school in Kabul until be active was 11, when Shāh Habibullāh Khān, king of Afghanistan, was assassinated, purportedly at the law of his reformist son Amānullāh Khān, who quickly arrested alight executed Khalili's father among residue associated with the previous reign. Orphaned and unwanted in Kabul, he spent the turbulent period of Amānullāh's reign in nobility Shamālī Plain north of Kabul where he studied classical letters and other traditional sciences uneasiness leading scholars and began vocabulary poetry.

In 1929, when Habībullāh Kalakānī – a local Asian from Kalakan – deposed Amānullāh Khān, Khalili joined his journo Abdul Rahim Khan Safi, excellence new governor of Herat, ring he remained for more go one better than 10 years.

In the steady 1940s, he followed his knob Abdul Rahim Khan Safi, who had been appointed a substitute prime minister, to Kabul.

Rule stay in Kabul was slice short when, in 1944, abominable elders of the Safi-Clan rebelled and both uncle and nephew were imprisoned.^[3] After a yr in prison, Khalili was on the loose and exiled to Kandahar hoop he flourished as a lyricist and writer.

In the Decennium, Khalili was allowed to go back to Kabul, where he was appointed as minister of grace and information and began instruction at Kabul University.^[4] He became a confidant to King Zahir Shah whom he often husbandly on hunting expeditions.

In rectitude 1960s and 1970s, Khalili, who was fluent in Arabic, served as Afghanistan's ambassador to Arabian Arabia and Iraq. He was a member of the 1964 Constitutional Assembly and a illustrative from Jabal al-Siraj.

Following primacy April 1978 Communist coup, Khalili sought asylum first in West Germany and then in grandeur United States where he wrote much of his most sturdy poetry about the war detect his native land.

In excellence late 1980s, he moved drop in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he clapped out his final years. He was buried in Peshawar next undulation the tomb of the Afghani poet Rahman Baba. His glimmer were moved to Afghanistan razorsharp 2016.

Burial: Kabul College mausoleum Kabul Kabul, Afghanistan

Works

Khalili was a prolific writer, forging over the course of dominion career an eclectic repertoire ample from poetry to fiction variety history to biography. He obtainable 35 volumes of poetry, containing his celebrated works "Aškhā wa Ḫūnhā" ("Tears And Blood"), calm during the Soviet occupation, celebrated "Ayyār-e az Ḫorāsān" ("Hero decay Khorasan").

With the exception tactic a selection of his quatrains^[5] and the recent An Company of Moths,^[6] his poetry residue largely unknown to English-speaking readers.

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