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Mehdi Hassan

مهدي حسن

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Pakistani ghazal and playback singer (1927–2012), born at Luna in Rajasthan into a family of hereditary Kalawant musicians and known as Shahenshah-e-Ghazal, 'Emperor of Ghazal'; he migrated to Pakistan in 1947, sang for more than 300 films and received the Pride of Performance (1985), the Nishan-e-Imtiaz (2006) and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (2010).

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Roles
musician
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abderrahmane Youssoufi · Abdul Rahim Hatif · Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud · Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid · Ali Hassan Mwinyi

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    Unknown (unknown)

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    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years2012

    Sources

    • Mehdi Hassan — English Wikipedia
    • Mehdi Hassan — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Mehdi Hassan — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Mehdi Hassan — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Mehdi Hassan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mehdi-hassan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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