Sadia Dehlvi
Born1957
Delhi
Died5 August 2020(2020-08-05) (aged 62–63)
NationalityIndian
Other namesSadia Sayyed Karamat Ali[1]
Occupation(s)activist, columnist and writer
SpouseSayyed Karamat Ali

Sadia Dehlvi (1957 – 5 August 2020) was a Delhi-based activist, writer and a columnist with the daily newspaper, the Hindustan Times, and frequently published in Frontline and Urdu, Hindi and English newspapers and magazines.[2] She was a devotee of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz of Ajmer and Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. She criticized radical interpretations of Islam and called for a pluralistic understanding of Islam. She produced and scripted documentaries and television programs, including Amma and Family (1995), starring Zohra Sehgal, a veteran stage actor.

Biography

Sadia Dehlvi was born in Delhi in 1957 into the Punjabi Saudagaran community. Her grandfather, Yusuf Dehlvi, and her father, Yunus Dehlvi, lived in Shama Kothi on Sardar Patel Road, in New Delhi where she was born.[3] The one-time cultural hub of Delhi, today it houses Bahujan Samaj Party headquarters, (since 2002).[4][5]

In April 2009 Dehlvi published a book on Sufism entitled Sufism: The heart of Islam published by HarperCollins Publishers, India.[6] Her second book, The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi, detailing Delhi's Sufi history was also published by HarperCollins, India and released in February 2012.

She edited Bano an Urdu women's journal for the Shama Group, which published Shama an Urdu literary and film monthly. It eventually closed in 1999.[7][8]

Dehlvi died on 5 August 2020.[9]

Personal life

She married a Pakistani, Reza Pervaiz, in 1990. She then stayed in Karachi, where the couple had a son, Armaan in 1992.[10][11] This marriage lasted for 12 years but ended in a divorce when Pervaiz emailed her "Talaq" three times on 8 April 2012. She later married 45-year-old Sayyed Karamat Ali, whom she met at Hazrat Shah Farhad, a Sufi shrine in Delhi, which she had been visiting for the last 20 years, and proudly referred to herself as Sadia Sayyed Karamat Ali.[1]

Sufism

Dehlvi wrote Sufism: The Heart of Islam in which she details Islam's Sufi traditions and the importance of what she sees as the Sufi message of love, tolerance and brotherhood.[12][13]

Author

  • Sufism, The Heart of Islam, Harpercollins, 2009. ISBN 81-7223-797-9.[14]
  • "Dilli ka Dastarkhwan" – chapter in City Improbable : An Anthology of Writings on Delhi/edited by Khushwant Singh. New Delhi, Viking, 2001, xv, 286 p. ISBN 0-670-91235-2.[15]
  • Dehlvi, Sadia (2012). The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-93-5029-095-8.
  • Dehlvi, Sadia (2017). Jasmine and Jinns: Memories and Recipes of My Delhi. HarperCollins. ISBN 9789352644360.

Works

As Actress:

  • Zindagi Kitni Khoobsoorat Hai (2001) TV series
  • Amma and Family (1995) TV series

Producer:

  • Not a Nice Man to Know (1998) TV series (associate producer)

Writer:

  • Amma and Family (1995) TV series

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 "'Divorce by Email- Sadia Dehalvi shares her experience of ending a marriage online'". Archived from the original on 2 December 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ↑ Profile Doha Network.
  3. ↑ Salim, Lubna (6 January 2018). "Reviving Delhi's long lost and forgotten home recipes". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  4. ↑ Maya’s elephant house rises in the rubble of Delhi’s cultural hub The Indian Express, 1 May 2009.
  5. ↑ ""Delhi's Muslim Culture is Dying" - Interview with Sadia Dehlvi". the delhiwalla.blogspot.ca. The Delhi Walla. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Sadia Dehlvi". wisemuslimwomen.org. WISE. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  7. ↑ Kumar, Surendra; Pradeep Kumar Kapur (2008). India of My Dreams. Academic Foundation. p. 213. ISBN 978-81-7188-689-0. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
  8. ↑ Taj, Afroz (28 December 2020). "The Filmī-ʿIlmī Formula: Shama Magazine and the Urdu Cosmopolis". Journal of Urdu Studies. 1 (2): 177–210. doi:10.1163/26659050-12340016. ISSN 2665-9042.
  9. ↑ Mishra, Smita. "Eminent author and food connoisseur Sadia Dehlvi passes away - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  10. ↑ Delhi’s Able Daughter: Sadia Dehlvi Archived 5 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine by Raza Rumi. 24 February 2007.
  11. ↑ ‘I am not looking for social approval’ The Indian Express, 10 May 2002.
  12. ↑ "Book review: Sufism: The Heart of Islam". 7 September 2010.
  13. ↑ "HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd". Archived from the original on 12 September 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  14. ↑ Sufism...
  15. ↑ Vedambooks
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