C. M. Naim

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C. M. Naim (Choudhary Mohammad Naim, b. 3 June 1936) is an American writer, scholar, critic, translator and academic of Indian origin. Naim's area of research is Urdu language and literature, as well as South Asian studies. He is the founding editor of the journals Annual of Urdu Studies and Mahfil (now Journal of South Asian Literature), and author of the definitive textbook for Urdu pedagogy in English.

Naim was born in Barabanki, India, and educated at Lucknow University, Central Institute of Languages, Poona, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1962, he joined the faculty of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and during the next 40 years, became full professor and served as chairman of the department. Naim is currently professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Ambiguities of Heritage (1999)] and Urdu Texts and Contexts, a selection of essays displaying a wide range of interests. He is also the translator of Mir Taqi Mir's autobiography Zikr-i-Mir^[1] and Deputy Nazeer Ahmad Dehlavi's novel Tauba-Tul-Nusooh.

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^ Zikr-I Mir: The Autobiography of the Eighteenth Century Mughal Poet: Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810), by C. M. Naim (University of Chicago), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999.

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Urdu Reader (with John Gumperz, June Romery, and A. B. Singh). Berkeley: Center for South Asia Studies, University of California" (1960)
Conversational Hindi-Urdu, 2 vols. (with John Gumperz and June Romery). Berkeley: ASUC Store, University of California" (1963)
Readings in Urdu: Prose and Poetry. Honolulu: East-West Center Press, for the South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Hawaii" (1965)
Introductory Urdu, 2 vols. Chicago: Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1975. Revised edition, 1980. Third revised edition, Chicago 1999. Also published, New Delhi, (2000)
Iqbal, Jinnah and Pakistan: The Vision and the Reality. Ed. by C. M. Naim" (1979)
Zikr-i Mir: The Autobiography of the Eighteenth Century Mughal Poet Mir Muhammad Taqi 'Mir' (translated from the Persian, with annotation and introduction)" (1999)
Ambiguities of Heritage: Fictions and Polemics."(1999)