Ghulam Rasool Alampuri

Ghulam Rasool Alampuri (29 January 1849 – 7 March 1892) was a 19th-century Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet and author.

Ghulam Rasool was born on 29 January 1849 into a Gujar family from the village of Alampur in Hoshiarpur District.

First is Dāstān-i Amīr Ḥamza, a lengthy epic based on the life of Hamza, the uncle of prophet of Islam.

Second is Aḥsan al-qaṣaṣ, based on the long popular romance of the Yusuf and Zulaikha, and completed in 1873.

[1] One PhD in Patiala, India, and two PhDs in Punjab, Pakistan, have been awarded on his life and works.