Bulleh Shah
1680 - 1757
Sayyid Abdullāh Shāh Qādrī, popularly known as Baba Bulleh Shah and vocatively as Bulleya, was a Punjabi revolutionary philosopher, reformer and poet, regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Punjabi language and revered as the 'Father of Punjabi Enlightenment'. His literary oeuvre, comprising ~150 kafi and 94 other poetic compositions, reflect themes of Sufi and humanist philosophy — for which he is regarded as 'Poet of the People' among Punjabis.