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{{Infobox person
| name = Muhammad Umar Memon
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| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1939
| birth_place = [[Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
| death_date = 3 June 2018 
| death_place = Madison,Wisconsin, USA
| nationality = American
| other_names = M.U. Memon
| education = Doctor of Philosophy
| alma mater = UCLA
| occupation = Professor Emeritus
| employer = Retired from [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
| website = http://mumemon.blogspot.com/
}}

'''Muhammad Umar Memon''' ([[Urdu]]: محمد عمر میمن) Professor Emeritus of Urdu Literature and Arabic Studies,<ref name="UW news">{{cite web|last=Lucas|first=John|title=Professor published world's only English journal on Urdu|url=http://www.news.wisc.edu/6962|publisher=Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System|date=14 Jan 2002}}</ref> ([[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]), Memon was an accomplished scholar, translator, Urdu Short Story writer, and the editor of ''The Annual of Urdu Studies''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pakusonline.com/page.aspx?page_id=98 |title=Interview with Muhammad Umar Memon |author=Anjum Dawood Alden |date=14 January 2009|publisher=Pak US Online|access-date=23 July 2011}}</ref>

Memon retired from the University of Wisconsin after 38 years of service<ref>{{Citation| last=Khan| first=Abroo H.| title=An Interview with Dr. Muhammad Umar Memon| journal=Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies| volume=1| issue=2| year=2009| pages=180–199| url=http://www.pakistaniaat.org/article/download/5001/3412|access-date=23 July 2011}}</ref> but remained active as a scholar: besides working on translation of Urdu works into English,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/muhammad-umar-memon/ |title=Muhammad Umar Memon's Work|publisher=Word Without Borders|access-date=23 July 2011}}</ref> he served on the editorial board of ''[[Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pakistaniaat.org/about/displayMembership/150 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-08-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327194308/http://www.pakistaniaat.org/about/displayMembership/150 |archive-date=2012-03-27 }}</ref> and was also an advisor to the Urdu Project.<ref>http://urduproject.wordpress.com/</ref>

== Biography ==
Memon was born in Aligarh, India in 1939. In 1954, his family moved to Karachi, Pakistan where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. After his graduation, he taught at Sachal Sarmast College and Sind University. In 1964 he won a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright scholarship]] to the United States. This move enabled him to earn a master's degree from [[Harvard University]] and eventually a doctorate in Islamic Studies from [[UCLA]]. Memon joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970 and retired from there after 38 years of service. At UW he taught Urdu, Islamic Studies as well courses in Arabic and Persian.<ref>All this information gleaned from these two interviews:{{cite web |url=http://www.pakusonline.com/page.aspx?page_id=98 |title=Interview with Muhammad Umar Memon |author=Anjum Dawood Alden |date=14 January 2009|publisher=Pak US Online|access-date=23 July 2011}}; http://www.pakistaniaat.org/article/download/5001/3412</ref>

== Scholarly and creative work ==
While a complete list of his scholarly and creative works can be found on his website, some major works are listed below:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sites.google.com/site/muhammadumarmemon/bibliography|title = Bibliography - Muhammad Umar Memon}}</ref>
*{{cite book|author1=Muhammad Umar Memon|author2=Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Ibn Taymīyah|title=Ibn Taimīya's struggle against popular religion: with an annotated translation of his Kitāb iqtiḍāʾ aṣ-ṣirāṭ al-mustaquīm mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTMKAQAAIAAJ|access-date=30 July 2011|year=1976|publisher=Mouton|isbn=978-90-279-7591-1}}
*''Studies in the Urdu Gazal and Prose Fiction''. Madison: University of Wisconsin press, 1979.
*{{Cite book | last1 = Memon | first1 = Muhammad Umar | title = An epic unwritten | year = 1998 | publisher = Penguin Books | location = New Delhi ; New York | isbn = 978-0-14-027227-7 }}
*{{Cite book | last1 = Memon | first1 = Muhammad Umar | title = The Harper Collins book of Urdu short stories | year = 2005 | publisher = Harper Collins Publishers | location = New Delhi | isbn = 978-81-7223-611-3 }}
*English translations of many of [[Naiyer Masud]]'s Urdu short stories, including the volumes [[Essence of Camphor]] and [[The Snake Catcher]]

== References ==


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== External links ==
* [http://www.urdustudies.com/ The Annual of Urdu Studies]

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