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Niaz Fatehpuri (1884 to 1966) was a prominent South Asian poet, philosopher, theologian, publisher, and litterateur. He made a mark in the worlds of religion (especially Islam in Pakistan and India) and literature in Pakistan and India (both the Republic of India and the British Raj).

Biography
Niaz Fatehpuri was born Niaz Muhammad Khan to Muhammad Amir Khan on 1 February, 1884 in Haswa, Fatehpur district in what was then the North-Western Provinces of British India. He died on 24 May, 1966, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Wives and Children
Niaz married his first wife in 1901 in Allahabad; she died in 1923.

He married his second wife, Mukhtar Begum, in 1924 in Lucknow; she died in 1947.

He married this third and last wife, Gulzar Begum, Mukhtar Begum's younger widowed sister, in 1947 in Lucknow; she died in 1995 in Karachi. Niaz fathered Muhammad Sarfaraz Niazi (today: Sarfaraz Khan Niazi) and Muhammad Riaz Niazi (today: Riaz Khan Niazi) with Gulzar Begum; he also had four step-sons with Gulzar from her previous married to Zafar Ahmad Khan: Muhammad Yusuf Khan, Muhammad Asif Khan, Muhammad Arif Khan, and Muhammad Qamar Khan.

Eternal Sources
Urdu writers and poets of world