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HUSAIN, Ta}:tsin, the author of one of the most important Urdu books, entitled the" Nau Tarz-i-Murassa' "lived somewhere in the middle of the eighteenth century and belonged to a middle• class family.
Here he is described as belonging to the Ruzvi Sadftt, a native of Etawah and a poet whose '' verses arc worthy of praise and whose talk is united to the neck of eloquence," a pupil of the great calligraphist, 'Ejf1z Raqam Khan, himself a master of calligraphy, addressed as Murassa' Raqam, a man of eminent position in prose and poetry who wrote in addi• tion to Z.
Fortunately for us Tahsin has left a preface prefixed to the Murassa', which affords the most authoritative source of certain 9* particulars, specially concerning the causes which prompted him to under• take, postpone for some time, arid then complete the writing of this book.
of the Nau Tarz i Murassa' preserved in the libraries of the India Office, the British Museum, and the Royal Asiatic Society and the Library of Berlin furnish corroboration of all the important details given above.
Murassa', Of the numerous authorities we have examined, Muhammad Husain Azad, is the writer' who first mentioned its date as 1798, basing it on the belief, derived from the existence of the qasida in the preface of the Murassa' in praise of A~afuddatila, that the book was written under this king's patronage and finished near the time of his death in A.