Nasim Amrohvi or Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi (; (24 August 1908 – 28 February 1987) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher, and lexicographer who was born as Syed Qaim Raza Taqvi on 24 August 1908 in Amroha, British India.A long-running serial (Nasim Amrohvi) Dawn (newspaper), Published 20 April 2005, Retrieved 10 May 2018Book Review and Profile of Nasim Amrohvi on GoogleBooks website Retrieved 10 May 2018
He belonged to a Taqvi Syed family. His father was Syed Barjees Hussain Taqvi and his mother was Syeda Khatoon. His grandfather was Shamim Amrohvi who was bestowed the title Farazdaq-e-Hind (lit. "India's Farazdaq").
In 1950, he migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947, settling in Khairpur. He moved to Karachi in 1961 and eventually died there on 28 February 1987.
Work Nasim Amrohvi was a member of the Urdu Lughat Board. Over several years, he compiled an Urdu dictionary entitled Nasim-ul-Lughat. For each word, Nasim-ul-Lughat provides not only its meaning, usage, and related proverbs but also the verses containing it. Besides being a lexicographer, he also wrote Marsiya.Reflections on modern Marsia Dawn (newspaper), Published 27 March 2002, Retrieved 10 May 2018
Books Some of his major works include: Khutbat-e-Mushiran (1942)Books by Nasim Amrohvi on rekhta.org website Retrieved 10 May 2018 Adabī kahāniyān̲ Nasīm ul-lug̲h̲āt, Urdū Dust banu dust bana'u Risālah tauz̤ih al-masāʼil. Translation of a book on Shīʻah doctrines by Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʻAlī Akbar al-Khūʼī Mūmin-i āl-i Ibrāhīm. Two poems on Shiite themes Musaddas-i Nasīm. On the prophet Muhammad Farhang-i Iqbāl. Large book on the philosophy of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, national poet of Pakistan Urdū lug̲h̲at : tārīk̲h̲ī uṣūl par. Dictionary of Urdu language Mars̲iyah-yi Josh. Elegy on the death of Josh Malihabadi (1896-1982), Urdu poet of Pakistan Cashmah-yi g̲h̲am. Elegies, chiefly on the martyrs of the battle of Karbala ʻAllāmah Iqbāl ke cāron̲ davāvīn. Dictionary of terms used in the works of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, national poet of Pakistan Nazm-e-Urdu
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