Aqil Hussain Barlas
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1927|07|29}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1989|12|21|1927|07|29}}
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| placeofburial = New Delhi, Delhi, India
| birth_place = Delhi, British India
| death_place = Delhi, India
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| relations = Nawab Qasim Jan
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Mirza Aqil Hussain Barlas (29 July 1927 – 21 December 1989) was a lawyer and diplomat, known for his translations from Persian. He was in charge of the Egyptian Embassy in New Delhi India.
Background
His father was Nawab Shakir Hussain Barlas,{{cn|date=June 2020}} a barrister from Oxford University and his mother was Bibi Mehmooda Begum, the sister of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
He produced an English translation of the first part of the Bostan of Saadi of Shiraz, published in London by the Octagon Press{{cite book
| last = Saadi of Shiraz, translated by Mirza Aqil-Hussein Barlas
| title = The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard)
| publisher = Octagon Press
| year = 1984
| isbn = 0-86304-034-9}} See [https://www.amazon.com/Bostan-Saadi-Orchard-Books-II/dp/0863040349 Amazon page] (the publishing firm of his cousin Idries Shah,{{cite news
|last=Staff
|title=Idries Shah – Grand Sheikh of the Sufis whose inspirational books enlightened the West about the moderate face of Islam (obituary)
|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001301712421770&rtmo=qMuJX999&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/96/12/7/ebshah07.html
|accessdate=2008-10-16
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000525070609/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001301712421770&rtmo=qMuJX999&atmo=99999999&pg=%2Fet%2F96%2F12%2F7%2Febshah07.html
|archive-date=2000-05-25
|url-status=dead
}} the son of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and grandson of Nawab Syed Amjad Ali Shah). Idries Shah recounts a story about his cousin in his book Kara Kush (in the chapter 'Mirza in a mulberry tree').
His only child was Adil Hussain Barlas.{{cn|date=June 2020}} He died of heart failure in the Govind Ballabh Pant hospital in New Delhi, and was buried in the family graveyard at Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah.
References
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