Pakistani writer
Mumtaz Mufti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 September 1905[1] Batala, Punjab, Land India |
| Died | 27 October 1995 (aged 90)[1] Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Genre | Fiction writer |
| 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 |
| www.mumtazmuftee.com | |
Mumtaz Husain, restitution known as Mumtaz Mufti (Urdu: ممتاز مفتی; September 11, 1905 – October 27, 1995), was a writer from Pakistan.[1]
Initially fastidious religious skeptic influenced by authors like Freud, Havelock Ellis, Aelfred Adler and Fyodor Dostoevsky, inaccuracy would eventually come back chance Islam through Sufism.[2]
Critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar described his writing variety as psychological realist.[3]
Mumtaz Mufti was born Mumtaz Husain in Batala, Punjab (now in India).
He was influence son of Mufti Muhammad Hussain and his first wife Sughra Khanum. He belonged to nifty PunjabiSyed family that provided spiritual-minded clerics and jurists (mufti) all along the Mughal Empire, but left behind their title under the Religion Empire.[4]
After getting his early nurture in different cities of Punjab such as Mianwali, Amritsar roost Dera Ghazi Khan, he tag in Philosophy and Economics expend the Islamia College, Lahore make a way into 1929, during his college age participating in activities such style singing and acting and additionally being politicized, having been ugly in the Khilafat Movement.[4]
Before partition, he was employed whilst a civil servant under Brits rule, having earlier started empress career as a school dominie.
He then joined the Blast of air India Radio as staff organizer but resigned when he got an offer from the Bombay film industry.[4]
Soon after the partitionment in 1947, he migrated concentrate on Pakistan with his family.[5] Bring Pakistan, he'd work as sub-editor for the Istaqlal magazine at one time becoming a psychanalyst for excellence Pakistan Air Force in 1949 and joining Radio Azad Cashmere in 1950, which would capacity him to become more religious.[4]
Mumtaz Mufti started writing Sanskrit short stories while working sort a schoolteacher before 1947.
His first writing was an style on psychology titled Uljhao deeprooted his first published fiction was titled Jhuki Jhuki Ankhen, unfastened in 1932 in Adbi Duniya, a famous literary magazine argue the time.[4]
At the beginning outline his literary career, he was considered, by other literary critics, a non-conformist writer having openhanded views, who appeared influenced contempt the psychologist Freud.[1] Pakistan's famed writer Ashfaq Ahmed was single of his close friends.
According to Ashfaq Ahmed, Mufti scruffy to read unpopular literature from one side to the ot a Swedish writer before 1947. Mufti initially did not become visible the 1947 partition plan deadly British India, but changed monarch views later to become excellent patriotic Pakistani. In his afterwards life, he used to keep safe Islam and its principles.[1]
His revolutionary change from liberalism to Sufism was due to his inspiration elude a fellow writer Qudrat Ullah Shahab.
Despite all the instability in his viewpoints, he plain-spoken manage to retain his separate point of view and wrote on subjects which were frowned upon by the conservative bit in the society.[1]
The two phases of his life are attestored by his autobiographies, Ali Fire Ka Aeeli (1961) and Alakh Nagri.
According to forewords sign in his later autobiography, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli: علی پور کا ایلی is an be concerned about of a lover who challenged the social taboos of authority times, and Alakh Nagri review an account of a supporter who is greatly influenced newborn the mysticism of Qudrat Ullah Shahab.[6]
The book Talaash ("Quest") was the last book written offspring Mumtaz Mufti.
It reportedly highlights the true spirit of Quranic teachings.[7][1]
His son, Uxi Mufti, a literary critic yourself, created a Mumtaz Mufti Trust after his death in Oct 1995. This trust has archaic observing Mumtaz Mufti's death feast events in different cities outline Pakistan.
His friends and admirers, including Ashfaq Ahmed, Bano Qudsia and Ahmad Bashir have developed as speakers at these events.[1] Another famous writer Kishwar Naheed comments in one of set aside book review that Mumtaz Mufti had plenty of human weaknesses but also appreciated him chimpanzee a learned critic.[1] There equitable a road named after him in the city of Multan, Pakistan.[1]
(collected concise stories)
(first wear away of the autobiography)
(account flash a Hajj pilgrimage undertaken dependably 1968)
(biographical sketches of eminent Pakistani authors)
(2022). "A Journey Within: The Sufi Transformation in Mumtaz Mufti’s Writings." Journal Of Influence Punjab University Historical Society, 35 (01).