Mumtaz Mufti
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Mumtaz Mufti ممتاز مفتی |
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Born | September 11, 1905 Batala, Punjab, British India |
Died | October 27, 1995 (aged 90) Islamabad, Pakistan |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Genre | Fiction, sufism |
Subject | Literature, philosophy, psychology, socialism |
Notable works | Ali Pur Ka Aeeli, Alakh Nagri, Labbaik, Un Kahi, Talash, Muftianey |
Notable awards | Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 1986 Munshi Premchand Award, 1989 |
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Mumtaz Mufti (Urdu: ممتاز مفتی) (September 11, 1905 – October 27, 1995), was a writer from Pakistan.
Early life
Mumtaz Mufti was born in Batala, Punjab (now in India). He was a son of Muhammad Hussain and his first wife Sughra Khannum.[citation needed] He became a civil servant under British rule and started career as a school teacher. Soon after partition, he migrated to Pakistan with his family.[citation needed]
Significance
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mumtaz Mufti started writing Urdu short stories while working as a school teacher before partition. In the beginning of his literary career, he was considered[by whom?] a non-conformist writer having liberal views, who appeared influenced by Freud. His transformation from Liberalism to Sufism was due to his inspiration from Qudrat Ullah Shahab. All the same, he did manage to retain his individual point of view and wrote on subjects which were frowned upon by the conservative elements in society.
The two phases of his life are witnessed by his autobiographies, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli and Alakh Nagri. According to forewords mentioned in his later autobiography, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli is an account of a lover who challenged the social taboos of his times, and Alakh Nagri is an account of an acolyte who greatly influenced by the mysticism of Qudrat Ullah Shahab.
Talaash ("Quest") was the last book written by Mumtaz Mufti.
Awards
- 1986: Sitara-e-Imtiaz
- 1989: Munshi Premchand Award
Works
- Ali Pur Ka Aeeli (Urdu: علی پور کا ایلی) is Mufti's 1961 autobiography describing the first phase of his life. Initially, this book was considered to be a novel but later it was revealed to be roman à clef.[1]
- Alakh Nagri (Urdu: الکھ نگری) is Mufti's autobiography describing the second phase of his life.
- Docter ka istemaal
- Ram Din
- Un Kahi
- Chup
- Guria Ghar
- Ismaraeen
- Kahi Na Jai
- Labbaik (Urdu: لبیک)
- Muftianey
- Nizam e Sakaa
- Roughani Putlay
- Samay Ka Bandhan
- Hind Yaatra
- Piyaaz Ke Chhilkay
- Okhay Awallay
- Aur Okhay Log
- Talash (Urdu: تلاش)
References
- ↑ http://prr.hec.gov.pk/Chapters/748-3.pdf, 'Ali Pur Ka Aeeli' Book Review article on his book, Retrieved 11 Jan 2016
External links
- Listen to Books written by Mumtaz Mufti
- Obituary, Obituary of Mumtaz Mufti on Dawn newspaper, Karachi, Retrieved 11 Jan 2016
- Download Books by Mumtaz Mufti
- A link to his book
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- Pakistani autobiographers
- Pakistani novelists
- Pakistani short story writers
- Urdu short story writers
- 1905 births
- Pakistani dramatists and playwrights
- Scholars of Sufism
- 1995 deaths
- Urdu-language novelists
- Pakistani literary critics
- Writers from Lahore
- Punjabi people
- 20th-century novelists