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	Alaol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alaol (Bangla: আলাওল) (1607-1680 CE) was a medieval poet in Bengal.
		Born in Faridpur, Alaol is believed to be kidnapped by Portuguese pirates while travelling on boat with his father.
		Alaol worked as a bodyguard for a while, but slowly is reputation as a poet spread.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaol (175 words)

	Local News on Bangladesh
		It is widely believed that Alaol was born in Jalalpur under the district of Faridpur in Bangladesh in the early years of the seventeenth century probably in 1607.
		Alaol's father died in the scuffle and on a lucky escape he managed to arrive at Arakan where he was recruited for the army and taken in the cavalry section.
		Alaol began to translate the religious treatise Tuhfa from Persian and came to an end of it in 1665.
	www.sdnbd.org /sdi/news/general-news/July/07-07-2002/Feature.htm (1438 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Alaol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alaol (c 1607-1680) one of the greatest poets of medieval bangla literature, was probably born in 1607 in Jalalpur village in Fatwabad Pargana of faridpur district.
		Alaol was also patronised by a number of other important courtiers such as Syed Musa (Royal Minister), Solaiman (Chief Minister), Mohammad Khan (Minister of Army), and Majlis Nabaraj (Minister of Taxation).
		Alaol's poems possess an urbanity and a sensibility reflective of court culture.
	banglapedia.info /HT/A_0160.HTM (352 words)

	::: Star Weekend Magazine ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alaol (1607-1680), Daulat Kazi (1600-1638), Muhammad Khan, Daulat Ujir Bahram Khan and the likes steered Bangla literature on a relatively newer course.
		Alaol's most celebrated work titled Padmavati was based on the Hindi original named Padmavat by Malik Mohammed Joyasi.
		Heavily influenced by his two predecessors Kanshi Ram Das and Krittee bash, Alaol was the most prolific poet of 17th century Bengal.
	thedailystar.net /magazine/2005/02/03/cover.htm (3240 words)

	Women's World \| Literature
		Alaol was a great scholar of different subjects and naturally he could not resist the temptation of exposing his learning and wisdom.
		Whereas, Alaol’s poem depicted the earthly tale of love between a man and a woman.
		The story come down to the earth with the emotions and aspirations of the hero and the heroine was placed in a particular social setting.
	www.bangla2000.com /women's_world/Literature/Archive/7-1-2000/literature1.html (690 words)

	Arakan Information Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Successor to the throne, Thado, Thado Mintar [Thado Mindara], was the son of King Narapadigyi’s brother.
		However, we know39 from Alaol that the War Minister of Narapadigyi was Alaol’s first protector and Muslim40 Magan Thaku'r’s father, “Sri Bara Thakur”.
		From Alaol’s poem “Saiful Muluk”42 it is known that when he ascended the Roshang throne he had not acquired the skills to run the country yet.
	www.rakhapura.com /read.asp?id=29&a=ScholarsColumn (3250 words)

	SOAS: SOAS: South Asia Department: Current & recent MPhil/PhD projects
		History reveals that in 1203, Bengal came under Muslim control while a large number of local people converted to Islam; the newly converted people were in need of some knowledge about their new religion, such as the lives of Prophets, principles of Islam, history of Islam, new culture, especially romantic traditions and so on.
		Sayyid Alaol (1607-1680) appeared as a beacon of the development of Bengali literature in the late mediaeval period.
		This thesis aims to offer a comprehensive study on Sagir and Alaol along with their literary contributions as well as its impact in the process of development of modern Bengali literature.
	www.soas.ac.uk /departments/departmentinfo.cfm?navid=497 (2812 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Alaol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Alaol; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Alaol (299 words)

	Women's World \| Literature
		Alaol, a great Bengali poet of the 17th century, translated this verse.
		One such tale is 'Saiful-Mulk-Badiuzzamal' having two versions in Bengali, of which one is rendered by Alaol and the other by Dona Gazi.
		The poets have not mentioned the name of its origin, though Alaol acknowledged that, this tale was very old from Persia.
	www.bangla2000.com /WOMEN'S_WORLD/Literature/Archive/6-16-2000/literature1.html (697 words)

	Mohammad Rafiq - Biographical Sketch [Parabaas Translation]
		The shattered dreams of Bangladesh’s hard-earned freedom and his own troubled marital life thoroughly remade the poet in the wilderness and in solitude.
		Aside from the Alaol Literary Award in 1981, he has also won the Bangla Academy Award in 1987 and the Zebunnessa Mohbubullah Trust Award in 1991.
		Prasenjit Gupta had the opportunity of working with Mohammad Rafiq on these translations when the latter was a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
	www.parabaas.com /translation/database/authors/texts/mohammadrafiq.html (348 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Padmavati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Padmavati medieval Bangla romantic poem adapted by alaol, poet laureate of the royal court of Arakan, from the original Hindi poem Padumavat in 1652 at the behest of Prime Minister Magan Thakur.
		It narrates how Raja Ratnasen of Chitor marries Padmavati, a Sri Lankan princess, who is also desired by Alauddin Khilji, Sultan of Delhi, who leads a futile military invasion to win her.
		The original Hindi poem has a touch of mysticism and sufism, but the Bangla version is a poem of secular human love.
	banglapedia.org /HT/P_0010.HTM (86 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Informed sources said that the CU has a total of six Provosts, 36 house tutors and a good number of officers and employees at eight dormitories.
		Among the dorms, Alaol, F Rahman, Sohrawardi, Shaheed Abdur Rab and Pritilata halls have four tutors each, while Shah Jalal, Sah Amanat, and Shamsunnahar halls have each six tutors with two other women dormitories going without provost.
		It is alleged that most of the provosts and house tutors were appointed from the white panel supporters of ruling BNP and Jamaat backed four-party alliance government.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/05/27/Ctg.htm (1073 words)

	An Age Of Pride And Contentment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While the king remained attached to a secular Arakanese tradition of Hindu-Buddhist court ceremonial and the practice of Buddhist dhamma, the advice of Muslim officers was welcome as long as, we may surmise, it shared the anti-Mughal stance of their royal master.
		The poetry written by Daud Qazi and Alaol with the encouragement of their Arakanese protectors figures among the masterpieces of Bengli literature.
		For the historian, this fact illustrates the sophistication of a polyglot court which sponsored a remarkable cultural efforescence.
	www.arakanlibrary.com /AnAgeOfPrideAndContentment.htm (2347 words)

	Country News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Of the four injured villagers, two were identified as Mohsin Hossain and Mohammad Ali.
		Sources said, a gang of armed robbers numbering about 11 looted cash and valuable goods from the passengers of 14 buses by intercepting those on the bank of Alaol Dighi on the Chittagong-Nazirhat road.
		Mohshin Hossain, one of the injured villagers seeing the robbers dividing the booty among themselves on the bank of Alaol Dighi informed the villagers of the matter.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/01/01112005ct.htm (3361 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Literature : Humayun Ahmed
		Quite a few of her novels have been translated into Indian regional languages and into French, Russian and English.
		Hossain is the winner of Bangla Academy award, 1980 and Alaol Purashkar, 1981 among many others.
		In 1994-95 she won a Ford Foundation Fellowship for her novel, Gayatri Sandhya.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /literature/selina_hussain.html (148 words)

	Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Students found more meaning in the archaeological sites around them, such as Mainamati, the centre of the Buddhist Deva Dynasty over 1200 years ago.
		They also had fun debating with each other on topics, looking at whether the poet Alaol or the Baul guru Lalon Shah is more important to their cultural heritage.
		To celebrate the launch of the new syllabus and reward students for their efforts, CIE is offering a prize for the best Cambridge O Level student in Bangladesh Studies.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/jun/04/04062006edu.htm (1048 words)

	TÄÎKSIRI: Part 6 - Verbs
		But if we change the word ios to äe, and leave the same relative suffixes, we get:
		äe alaol = you love him/her/it äe alaon = you love me
		Thus, what the relative suffixes -l and -n refer to are dependent on the Ergative case.
	www.zece.com /conlang/taiksiri/06_verbs.html (518 words)

	Bangladeshinovels.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Awards: Bangla Academy Award (1983); Alaol Literary Award (1987); Alanda Award (1996); Sadat Ali Akand Award (1996); Kari Mahbulullah Gold Medal (1996).
		Awards: Alaol Literary Award (1991); Bangla Academy Award (1993).
		Awards: Bank Literature Award: Philips Award for literature; Alaol Literary Award; Agrani Bank Award for Children Literature; Bogra Lekhak Chakra Award; Bangla Academy Award.
	www.bangladeshinovels.com /page/short_bios.html (1741 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 187 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dhaka University Library has put on display Sarada Tilak, a Sanskrit manuscript of 1439.
		It is also exhibiting Padma Puran of Narayan Dev, Mahabharata, Padmaboti of Alaol, Shab-e-Meraj of Syed Sultan, Ramayana of Kirtibas, and many other books and manuscripts of the Middle Age.
		The exhibition features some rare manuscripts of the 17th century written in Persian and Arabic on the historic events of Karbala, rated as the most attractive collection.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/12/02/d4120201033.htm (525 words)

	Spiritualism sufi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The poets of Sufi also tensionan that the body is knowing human that the Sufi can know the God.
		The names on of the composers of the pada one of Muslim hundreds are known, including Ainuddin, Afzal, Alaol, Ali Race, Nasir Mahmud, MIR Faizullah, sheik Kabir, sheik Chand, Syed Mortuza and SultÃ¡n de Syed.
		Many of them also composed philosophical verse writings.
	spiritualism.tooncomics.com /spiritualism-sufi.htm (1532 words)

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