Author · Afghanistan
Sardar Ghulam Muhammad Tarzi
Died in 1900
Ghulam Muhammad Tarzi was born on 30 April 1830 in Kandahar, the son of Sardar Rahim Dil Khan, of the Mohammadzai royal house. Accused of rebellion, he was driven out of Afghanistan with his family in 1881 or 1882 on the orders of Emir Abd al-Rahman, and lived in Karachi, in India, in Baghdad, in Istanbul, then in Damascus, under Ottoman protection. He wrote religious, mystical and secular poetry under the name Tarzi. He died in Damascus around 1900. His son Mahmud Tarzi would become a poet, an ambassador and minister of foreign affairs.
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- PoetryدیوانSardar Ghulam Muhammad Tarzi · 1893not translated into EnglishLiterature