Mahmud Gami

Mahmud Gami (1765–1855) introduced in Kashmiri the Persian forms of the Masnavi and ghazal. He was born at mehmood abad then known as adwadar-a village in Doru Shahabad, a historical town in South Kashmir. He is noted for his work Yusuf Zulaikha, a poem which is a major contribution to Kashmiri literature. It is the first and the most popular masnavi in Kashmiri. It comprises 700 verses and has also been rendered into the German by the 19th-century European scholar Fredrich Burkhard.After his death Mehmood Gami was laid to rest at a place in his own village.The place has been developed into a park and is popularly known as 'Mehmood Gami Park'.

He stands out among the poets of his day by the fact that almost all of his work was in the Kashmiri Language. He is famous for his narrative romantic poems "Shirin Khusro", "Yusuf-Zulaikha", and "Laila Majnu". He also versified in kashmiri, the histories of Mahmud of Ghazni, and Haroun Rashid. The Ghazal was Mahmud Gami's forte. His lyrics dealt with Sufianaand Love themes, the later predominating