Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (b. 1935) is an eminent Urdu critic, poet and theorist, who has nurtured a whole generation of Urdu writers after the 1960s. Regarded as the founder of the new movement in Urdu literature, he has formulated fresh models of literary appreciation. With rare skill and clarity, he absorbed western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature, but only after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. An expert in classical prosody and ‘ilm-e bayan (the science of poetic discourse), he has contributed to modern literary discourse with a profundity rarely seen in contemporary Urdu critics. Recipient of numerous honors and awards, he was most recently awarded the prestigious Saraswathi Samman for his pioneering work She`r-e Shor- Angez. In this four-volume study of the great eighteenth-century poet Mir Taqi Mir, Faruqi uses a refreshingly eclectic approach and a variety of insightful critical tools to interpret Mir’s art.

1 A brief profile
2 Publications
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] A brief profile

Education: MA in English from Allahabad University in 1955.

Career: Worked as a civil servant in the Indian Postal Department in 1960-1968, later became Chief Postmaster-General and Member, Postal Services Board, New Delhi till 1994. At present whole-time writer and editor of his literary magazine Shabkhoon and part-time professor South Asia Regional Studies Centre, University of Pennsylvania, USA