Mukhtaruddin Ahmad

Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo
Born(1924-11-14)14 November 1924
Zafar Manzil, Azimabad, Patna district, Bihar
Died30 June 2010(2010-06-30) (aged 85)
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
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Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo (14 November 1924 – 30 June 2010) was an Indian literary critic and Writer of Urdu language. He was former Dean of Faculty of Arts at Aligarh Muslim University.[1] He was appointed as the lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Aligarh Muslim University in 1953. He was the founding Vice Chancellor of Maulana Mazharul Haque Arabic and Persian University.[2][3] He was appointed as the Senior Fellow at Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan in 2004.[4]

Early life and education

Ahmad was born into a religious family of Maulana Zafaruddin Bihari Qadri Razvi, a disciple of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi on 14 November 1924 at Azimabad in Bihar.[5][6] They are a claimed descendant of Malik Ibrahim Baya of Bihar Sharif.[7][8]

He completed his education till Maulvi and Alimiyat under his father at Madrasa Shamsul Huda, Patna.[6]

Literary works

  • Arzu, Mukhtar Uddin Ahmad (1949). The Aligarh Urdu magazine: Ghalib number (in Urdu). Muslim University Press.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin. Halat-e-Zindagi-e-Abdul Haq (in Urdu). Delhi: Sahitya Academy.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1992). Abdul Haq: Maker of Indian Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 978-81-7201-023-2.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1956). Naqd-e-Ghalib (in Urdu). Delhi: Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdū.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1956). An Introduction to and Analysis of the Leiden MS of Jamharat Al-Islām by Muslim B. Maḥmūd Al S̲h̲ayzarī, and a Critical Edition of Hitherto Unpublished Passages from Writers and Poets Down to the Fourth Century A.H., with Annotations. University of Oxford Press.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1960). Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī al-Ustādār aẓ-Ẓāhirī (in Urdu). Aligarh: Muslim Yūnīvarsiṭī Press.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin. Meer Ali al-Katib Ka Ek Shahkar (in Urdu).
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin; Ram, Malik (1965). Nazr-e-Arshi (in Urdu). New Delhi: Majlis Nazr-e-Arshi.
  • Rizvi, Sayyad Azeez Husain (2009). Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (ed.). Hayat-e-Zafar (in Urdu). Mumbai: Anjuman Barkat Raza.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1960). Mohammad bin Ali al-Ustadar al-Zahiri (in Urdu). Aligarh: Idara-e-Uloom-e-Islamia.

Awards and honours

  • Certificate of Honour from President of India[2]
  • Ghalib Award (1983)[2]
  • Sir Syed Lifetime Achievement Award[2]

References

Citations

  1. ^ قندیل (28 April 2022). "نقشِ مختار: پروفیسر مختارالدین احمد آرزو کے وقیع علمی ، تحقیقی اور تبصراتی مضامین - شکیل رشید" [Mukhtaruddin Ahmed Arzoo's scholarly, research and commentary essays]. قندیل - Qindeel (in Urdu). Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d TwoCircles.net (30 June 2010). "Prof. Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo passes away". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  3. ^ "The Milli Gazette". www.milligazette.com. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Professor Mukhtaruddin Ahmed". www.milligazette.com. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  5. ^ Mahuli 2005, p. 95.
  6. ^ a b Usmani, Afzal (21 September 2021). "Prof. Mukhtaruddin Ahmad 'Arzoo | Aligarh Movement". Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  7. ^ Siddiqi, Ather H. (21 September 2021). "Professor Mukhtar Uddin Ahmad "Arzoo" : Professor Ather H. Siddiqi | Aligarh Movement". Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  8. ^ Naqvi, Noorul Hasan (2001). Muhammad College Se Muslim University Tak [From Muhammad College to Muslim University] (in Urdu). Educational Lake House. p. 411.

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