Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi

Infobox Person
name = Pir Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi


image_size = 190px
caption =
birth_date = birth date|1911|09|20|mf=y
birth_place = Nusrat Station, Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan
death_date = death date|1982|04|01|mf=y
death_place = Buried at Makli Graveyard, Thatta.

Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi ( _sd. پير حسام الدين راشدي) September 20 1911 - April 1 1982 was a Pakistani journalist, author and scholar.

Born in 1911 near Nusrat Station, Ratodero Taluka, Larkana District, he was the son of Muhammad Hamid Shah Rashidi and the younger brother of Pir Ali Muhammad Rashidi. He was an internationally acclaimed scholar of Sindhi literature as well as a historian, journalist and biographer.

Biography

Rashidi was born at the house of Mohammad hamid Shah Rashidi, village Behman, near Nusrat Station, Ratodero Taluka, Larkana District. He took his primary education from Molvi Muhammad Soomar and Muhammad Elyas. Then he went to Syed Ali Shah Lakyari. He passed class 4th and Sikander Nama from that teachers. Rashidi got English education from the station master of Nusrat Station. He had a very found of studying books and newspapers, that's why he got more and more information and able to understand Persian, English, and Urdu languages.

Rashidi begin working in journalism at the age of 18. First he joined the newspaper "Jagan". He became the editor of "Al-Manar Newspaper" at Sukkur in 1930. At last he started his own newspaper "Sitar-e-Sindh" in the collaboration with his elder brother.

He visited many countries with delegations of scholars. He was awarded "Nishan-e-Spas" by the Iranian government in 1963, and "Tamgh-e-Imtiaz" from the government of Pakistan the next year.

He published more than 40 books on topics ranging from history and archeology to biography and collections of essays and lectures.

Rashidi passed away on 1 April 1982. He is buried at the Historical Makli Grave yard in Thatta.

elected publications

* "Molana Muhib Ali Sindhi" (Sindhi)
* "Sindhi Adab" (Urdu)
* "Mehran jon Mojoon" (Sindhi)
* "Masnawi Chanesar NAma az Adarki beglar" (preface in Sindhi)
* "Maqalat al Shuarai"
* "Mir Muhammad MAsoom Bhakri"
* "Tazkira e Suarai Kashmir"
* "Tazkira e Ameer Khani"
* "Mirza Ghazi Baig aur us ki Bazm e Adab"
* "Makli Naama"
* "Turkhan Nama"

and many other books are still available in market.

ee also

* Ali Muhammad Rashidi
* Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
* Dr. Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota
* Mirza Qalich Baig
* Allama I. I. Kazi
* Elsa Kazi
* Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
* G. M. Syed

External links

* "Quarterly Mehran Rashidi Number" by Sindhi Adabi Board.
* "Maroo jee malir ja"
* [http://www.mangrio.sanam.com/ Mangrio]