خواجه حسن نظامي

Life1878–1955

Hasan Nizami was born in 1878 into a family attached to the Nizamuddin shrine and spent most of his life there. He travelled widely, in India and the Middle East, ran his own publishing house and newspapers, and wrote hundreds of books and booklets: on Sufism, on history, on daily life, and short sketches on every imaginable subject. His readers gave him the title Musawwir-e-Fitrat, "the painter of nature". He died in Delhi in 1955.