Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi (1917 – 12 March 1997) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and a translator of classical Islamic texts from Persian and Arabic into Urdu. He was a professor of Persian and Arabic at Manzar-e-Islam in Bareilly, prior to his migration to Karachi, Pakistan. His book Sarwar-e-Kaunain ki Fasahat won an award from the Government of Pakistan. He lived and died in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan where he migrated from British India. The later years of his life were plagued by health problems. He had nine children in various countries and his wife died before him. He received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz for his academic work in 1995. Literary works His works include: Nizam-e-Mustufa by himself () Sarwar-e-Kaunain ki Fasahat Ḥaz̤rat Ḥasan Raz̤ā Barelvī kī nʻat goʾī aur un ke divān-i zoq-i nʻat par nāqadānah naẓar Auranzeb-Khutut ke Ayenah Mae Aʻlā Ḥaz̤rat Imām Ahl-i Sunnat Maulānā Shāh Ḥāfiz Aḥmad Raz̤ā K̲h̲ān̲ Raz̤ā ke naʻtiyah kalām kā taḥqīqī aur adabī jāʾizah () Translation works Awaarif-ul-muwaarif (translation) by Shaikh-ul-Shuyukh Shihabuddin al-Suhrawardi Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din (translation) by Shaikh Abdul-Qadir Gilani Nafahat al Uns (translation) by Shaikh Nuruddin Jami Sad Maktubat (translation) by Shaikh Muniri Tareekh-ul-Khulufaa (translation) by Imam al-Suyuti Imām Aḥmad Raz̤ā kī ḥāshiyah nigārī/jāʼizah nigār (translation ) by Imam Ahmad Raza Khan () Qadiri Ridwi Majmu’ah Wazaaif (translation) by Shaykh Iqbal Nuri Ruq'at-e-Alamgir (translation) by Alamgir I Mukāshafat al-qulūb (translation) by Imam al-Ghazali Kitābulḥaqūq o kitābuṣṣidq (translation) by Imam al-Ghazali References 1917 births 1997 deaths Arabic–Urdu translators Persian–Urdu translators Muhajir people Pakistani writers Pakistani scholars Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz Writers from Karachi Islam in Pakistan 20th-century translators Barelvis People from Bareilly