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{{Short description|Indian Urdu writer and researcher (born 1992)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Junaid Ahmad Noor
| birth_name = Junaid Ahmad Zargar
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1992|01|02}}
| birth_place = [[Bahraich]], Uttar Pradesh, India
| occupation = Writer, researcher, trader
| language = Urdu
| nationality = Indian
| notableworks= ''Bahraich Ek Tārīkhi Shahr'' (2 vols), ''Khanqah-e-Nayeemia Bahraich''
}}

'''Junaid Ahmad Noor''' (born 2 January 1992), also spelled as '''Juned Ahmad Noor''', is an Indian Urdu writer and researcher from [[Bahraich]], Uttar Pradesh. He has written on the cultural, religious, and literary history of Bahraich, including the two-volume ''Bahraich Ek Tārīkhi Shahr'' and ''Khanqah-e-Nayeemia Bahraich: Tarīkh ke Aurāq se Aaj tak''.

== Biography ==
Junaid Ahmad Noor was born in [[Bahraich]], Uttar Pradesh, on 2 January 1992.<ref name="rekhta">{{cite web |title=Junaid Ahmad Noor - Profile & Biography |url=https://www.rekhta.org/authors/junaid-ahmad-noor/profile |website=[[Rekhta (website)|Rekhta]] |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Adabī Mīrās ke Qalammkāron kā Mukhtasar Ta‘āruf: Junaid Ahmad Noor|trans-title=A Brief Introduction to the Writers of Adbi Miras: Junaid Ahmad Noor|url=https://adbimiras.com/short-introduction-of-junaid-ahmad-noor/ |website=Adbi Miras |date=3 August 2021 |language=ur |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref> He studied at local institutions and later pursued further education through [[IGNOU]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bahraich Ek Tareekhi Shahar (ebook) |url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/bahraich-ek-tareekhi-shahar-junaid-ahmad-noor-ebooks#192 |website=Rekhta |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref>

In October 2021, he was elected senior vice-president of ''Urdu Mahfil'', a literary association in Bahraich.<ref>{{cite news |title=बहराइच-सम्मान समारोह एवं मुशायरे का हुआ आयोजन |url=https://www.livehindustan.com/uttar-pradesh/bahraich/story-honoring-saraswati-committee-for-preserving-sanatan-tradition-in-bahraich-201759067433701.html |work=[[Live Hindustan]] |date=12 October 2021 |language=hi |access-date=29 September 2025}}</ref>

In March 2025, amid public debate over the Jeth Fair at the shrine of [[Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud]], Noor was quoted in the ''Hindustan Times'' as saying that Masud was born in [[Ajmer]] in 1015 CE and died in Bahraich in 1034 CE. He added that the saint is locally known as "Baale Miyan" and that carrying flags to his shrine has been a longstanding practice.<ref>{{cite news |last=Siddiqui |first=Shariq Rais |title=Demands to ban Bahraich’s Jeth Fair gather steam |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/demands-to-ban-bahraich-s-jeth-fair-gather-steam-101742570375938.html |work=[[Hindustan Times]] |date=21 March 2025 |access-date=29 September 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250928070436/https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/demands-to-ban-bahraich-s-jeth-fair-gather-steam-101742570375938.html |archive-date=28 September 2025}}</ref>

== Works ==
Noor authored the two-volume series ''Bahraich Ek Tārīkhi Shahr''. The first volume, published in 2019, documents the history of Bahraich with accounts of religious figures, scholars and political leaders.<ref>{{cite web |author=Abul Bashar|title=Review: Bahraich Ek Tārīkhi Shahr|url=https://adbimiras.com/bahraich-ek-tarikhi-shehar-abu-al-bashar/ |website=Adbi Miras |date=8 December 2020 |language=ur |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref> The second volume, ''Bahraich Urdu Adab Mein'' (2021), focuses on the region’s Urdu literary tradition and was launched in Bahraich in March 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bahraich: Ek Tārīkhi Shahar, Jild Dōm kī Rasm-e-Ijrā’|trans-title=Bahraich: A Historic City, Release Ceremony of Volume II|url=https://adbimiras.com/bahraich-aik-tareekhi-shahar-jild-doum-ki-rasm-e-ijra/ |website=Adbi Miras |date=29 March 2022 |language=ur |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref>

The series received reviews in Urdu literary circles. In the daily ''Aag'' (Lucknow), Waseem Ahmad Azmi wrote that the second volume places Bahraich in a wider literary and historical context,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Azmi|first =Waseem Ahmad|title=Review: Bahraich Urdu Adab Mein|journal=Daily Aag|date=10 May 2023 |url=https://archive.org/details/urdu-daily-aag-10-may-2023 |access-date=28 September 2025 |volume=17|issue=298|page=7|language=ur}}</ref> while University of Lucknow scholar Sufiyan Ahmad Ansari described the work as a detailed cultural and historical study.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ansari|first=Sufiyan Ahamad|title=Kitab Ki Baat: Book Review |url=https://adbimiras.com/bahraich-aik-tareekhi-shahar-tabsara-by-sufiyan-ahmad-ansari/ |website=Adbi Miras |date=27 January 2022 |language=ur |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref> The quarterly journal ''Fikr-o-Taḥrīr'' (Kolkata) praised the first volume for its treatment of Bahraich's geography, religious figures and freedom fighters.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ansari |editor-last=Anees |editor-first=Nayeem |first=Dāim Muhammad |title=Review: Bahraich Ek Tārīkhi Shahr |url=https://archive.org/details/fikr-o-tahreer-jan-march-2021 |journal=Quarterly Fikr o Taḥrīr |volume=8 |issue=27 |date=January–March 2021 |pages=138–139 |language=ur |publisher=Office of Fikr o Taḥrīr |location=Braunfield Road, [[Kolkata]]}}</ref> In 2024, [[Tahir Mahmood]] discussed Noor's work in his essay collection ''Merā junūn-i Urdū'', calling it a notable attempt to record regional Urdu literary heritage.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mahmood|first=Tahir|author-link=Tahir Mahmood|title=Merā junūn-i Urdū: k̲h̲ut̤bāt va maẓāmīn |publisher=[[Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu]] |year=2024 |isbn=978-81-966470-2-5 |language=ur |pages=306–309}}</ref> Both volumes were also listed in official sanction orders of the [[National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language]], which provided grants for Urdu promotional activities in 2019 and 2021.<ref>{{cite web |date=7 October 2019 |title=Sanction Order (7 October 2019) |url=https://www.urducouncil.nic.in/sites/default/files/policy-planning/Sanction_Order_07_Oct._2019_%281%29_0.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250412191158/https://urducouncil.nic.in/sites/default/files/policy-planning/Sanction_Order_07_Oct._2019_(1)_0.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2025 |access-date=28 September 2025 |publisher=[[National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language]], Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=3 November 2021 |title=Sanction Order (3 November 2021) |url=https://www.urducouncil.nic.in/sites/default/files/policy-planning/Sanction_Order_0.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250412054006/https://urducouncil.nic.in/sites/default/files/policy-planning/Sanction_Order_0.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2025 |access-date=28 September 2025 |publisher=NCPUL, Ministry of Education, Government of India}}</ref>

Apart from this series, Noor wrote ''Khanqah-e-Nayeemia Bahraich: Tarīkh ke Aurāq se Aaj tak'' and compiled collections such as ''Chamanistān-e-Bahraich'', ''Khutbāt-e-Bahraich'',<ref name="rekhta"/> and ''Sadā-i Watan''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ansari |first=Sufyān Ahmad |title=Nigārishāt (A Collection of Articles) |date=May 2025 |publisher=Educational Publishing House |isbn=978-93-6062-669-3 |edition=2nd |location=[[New Delhi]] |language=ur}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1992 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Urdu-language Indian writers]]
[[Category:Writers from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:People from Bahraich]]

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