Jaun Elia | |
|---|---|
 Elia in 1967 | |
| Native name | جون ایلیا |
| Born | Syed Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi 14 December 1931 Amroha, United Provinces, British India |
| Died | 8 November 2002 (aged 70) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | Ghazal |
| Notable works | Shayad, Yani, Lekin, Gumman, Goya, Farnood |
| Notable awards | Pride of Performance |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
Syed Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi,[1] commonly known by his pen-name Jaun Elia (Urdu: جون ایلیا, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was a Pakistani poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar.
One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets, popular for his unconventional ways, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic history, the Muslim Sufi tradition, Muslim religious sciences, Western literature, and Kabbala".[2] He was fluent in Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi,[3] English, Persian, Sanskrit and Hebrew.[2]
- ^ "Jaun Eliya - Profile & Biography". Rekhta. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Urdu poet Jaun Elia remembered on 10th death anniversary". The Express Tribune. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- ^ Pakistan: alternative imag(in)ings of the nation state (First ed.). Karachi: Oxford University Press. 2020. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-19-070131-4.
When Rais Amrohvi and Syed Muhammad Tagi fuelled the flames of the Sindhi-Muhajir linguistic controversies of the early 1970s, Elia proclaimed himself a Sindhi-speaker as much as an Urdu-speaker, while committing to raise his voice for the rights of all the denizens of Pakistan without any distinction of caste, creed, or language