Background
He was born at mehmood abad then known as adwadar-a village in Doru Shahabad, a historical town in South Kashmir.
He was born at mehmood abad then known as adwadar-a village in Doru Shahabad, a historical town in South Kashmir.
He is noted for his work Yusuf Zulaikha, a poem which is a major contribution to Kashmiri literature. lieutenant is the first and the most popular masnavi in Kashmiri. lieutenant comprises 700 verses and has also been rendered into the German by the 19th-century European scholar Fredrich Burkhard.After his death Mehmood Gami was laid to rest at a place in his own village.The place has been developed into a park and is popularly known as "Mehmood Gami Park".