Khushal Khan Khattak

Khushal Khan Khattak ( Pashtun خوشحال خان خټک) (* 1613 in Akora Khattak district , today ( Pashtun نوښار) Nauchar , also Naushara (new town) about 75 km away from Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ; † February 25, 1689 ) was an Indian poet the Pashtun language .

Life

Khushal was commissioned by the Mughal Mughal to take over the positions and titles of his father Shabaz Khan in 1641. Khushal and his father Shabaz went to Delhi to discuss the situation of the Pashtuns with Shah Jahan . Both were arrested there; Khushal was released a short time later. Shahbaz, on the other hand, was taken hostage in the fortress of Gwalior in northern India. Against this hostage-taking, Khushal organized the resistance, which was ultimately directed against the Mughals . Khushal is thus an early representative of the Pashtun or Afghan national feeling.

As a war poet, Khushal wrote numerous writings and verses. He was also a master of landai , a form of Pashtun short poems comparable to Japanese haiku . He is also considered the national poet of the Pashtun language.

Sample verses

"I took the sword to defend the honor of the Afghans, I am Khushal Khattak, honorable man of this age."

"Wise men have become scarce like the alchemist's elixir ."

Web links

Literature by and about Khushal Khan Khattak in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Georg Morgenstierne: Khushhal Khan — the national poet of the Afghans . In: Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society . tape 47 , no. 1 . Taylor & Francis, 1960, pp. 49-57 , doi : 10.1080 / 03068376008731684 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Khattak, Khushal Khan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian poet of the Pashtun language
DATE OF BIRTH	1613
PLACE OF BIRTH	Peshawar
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1689

[Morgenstierne-1] Georg Morgenstierne: Khushhal Khan — the national poet of the Afghans . In: Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society . tape 47 , no. 1 . Taylor & Francis, 1960, pp. 49-57 , doi : 10.1080 / 03068376008731684 (English).