{"id":114636,"date":"2026-11-08T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=114636"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:20:10","slug":"qudrat-ullah-shahab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/pt\/learn\/qudrat-ullah-shahab\/","title":{"rendered":"Qudrat Ullah Shahab: His Life and the Shahab Nama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Christian Pure wrote this page. If a link to monthlycrescent.com brought you here: that address once belonged to a Muslim magazine. We hold the lapsed address now, we have no connection with that magazine, and nothing here is taken from it. Qudrat Ullah Shahab was a Pakistani civil servant and Urdu writer who served three of the country&#039;s first rulers as private secretary, and who left behind the Shahab Nama, most probably the best-selling autobiography in Urdu. He was a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/pt\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/pt\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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