Birth date:
1680
Death date:
1757
Bulleh Shah, sometimes Bulla(h) Shah (1680–1757) (Punjabi: بلہے شاہ) was a Punjabi Sufi poet, humanist and philosopher. His full name was Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri[1]
Modern renderings
In the 1990s Junoon, a rock band from Pakistan, rendered his poems Bullah Ki Jaana and Aleph (Ilmon Bas Kareen O Yaar). In 2004, Rabbi Shergill turned the abstruse metaphysical poem Bullah Ki Jaana into a rock/fusion song that gained popularity in India and Pakistan.[2][3]
Further reading
Bulleh Shah: the love-intoxicated iconoclast, by J. R. Puri, Tilaka Raj Shangri. Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1986
Great Sufi Poets of The Punjab, by R. M. Chopra, Iran Society, Kolkata, 1999.
Poems by this Poet
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| Sack the gongman | 31 July 2013 |
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| Stay silent to survive | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Arrow Of Love | 31 July 2013 |
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| The blossoming of love is strange and wondrous | 31 July 2013 |
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| The hajjis go to Mecca | 31 July 2013 |
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| The soil is in ferment, O friend | 31 July 2013 |
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| There goes my Love | 31 July 2013 |
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| There is a thief in the folds of my arms | 31 July 2013 |
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| This love - O Bulleh - tormenting, unique | 31 July 2013 |
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| Turn your face toward me | 31 July 2013 |
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