Abdullah Lahori

Abdullah Lahori (عبداللہ لاہوری), also known by his pen name ʿAbdī, was one of the earliest Punjabi prose writer and poet, active between 1616 and 1666 in the Mughal Empire.

Life
ʿAbdī was born at Malka Hāṇs in Sāhīwāl, Punjab. He spent most of his life at Lahore; other than that, little details are known about his life.

Works
Between 1616 and 1666, ʿAbdī composed a major work on fiqh in Punjabi under the title of Bāra Anva ("Twelve Topics") in 9,000 couplets. These twelve books included: • Risāla-yi tuḥfa (1616)

• Naṣṣ-i farāʾiḍ (1622)

• Khulāṣat al-muʿāmalāt (1643)

• Anwāʿ al-ʿulūm (1634)

• Maʿrifat-i ilāhī (1645)

• Khayr al-ʿāshiqīn kalān (1644)

• Farāʾiḍ-i Sharḥ-i Sirājī  (1648)

• Khayr al-ʿāshiqīn khurd

• Ḥiṣār al-īmān

• Ṣayqal-i awwal

• Ṣayqal-i duvvum

• Ḥamd wa-thanā In addition to Bāra Anva, he wrote several other treatises including rīsālā fīqh hīndī (1666) and tūhfā tūl tūlaba.