Farman Fatehpuri

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Prof. Dr. Farman Fatehpuri (Urdu: فرمان فتح پوری) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (b. 1926) is the eminent Urdu linguist, researcher, writer, critic and scholar of Pakistan. He is widely regarded as the supreme living authority on life and work of Ghalib - the greastest ever Urdu poet. He has the credit of penning more than 300 scholarly articles, 600 book reviews, and 400 editorials to Nigar.

[edit] Life

Farman Fatehpuri was born as Syed Dildar Ali on January 26, 1926 in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father died early in 1933. He got matriculation from Fatehpur, intermediate from Allahabad in 1948 and graduation from Agra University in 1950. Farman migrated to Pakistan in 1950 and settled in Karachi. He did M.A., LLB, and B.T. from Karachi University. Later he did Ph.D. in 1965. He hold the honor of being first Pakistani having D.Litt on Urdu in 1974. He associated with Karachi University for nearly 30 years and produced many PhD holders and researchers. He was appointed Chief Editor and Secretary of the Urdu Dictionary Board in 1985. In the same year, he was awarded Sitar-e-Imtiaz by the government of Pakistan.

Since 1996, he is also serving for as member of Civil Services Board, Sindh Government. He is the editor of Monthly Nigar - the oldest Urdu literary journal, founded by Farman's mentor Niaz Fathepuri, still publishes from Karachi.

[edit] Literary work

Farman Fatehpuri is a man of letter, a researcher of par excellence and a prolific speaker. His work and ideas have had a strong influence on researchers investigating the poetry and prose of Ghalib and Urdu linguistics. He is author of more than 60 titles on Urdu poetry of Ghalib, Iqbal; linguistics, criticism, and biography. His main writings (excluding hundreds of literary articles) are as follows: