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{{Infobox person
| name = Niaz Fatehpuri <br /><small>{{Nastaliq|نیاز فتحپوری}}</small>
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name = Niaz Mohammed Khan
| birth_date = 1884
| birth_place = Nayi Ghat, [[Barabanki district]]
| death_date = 24 May 1966
| death_place = [[Karachi]], Pakistan
| nationality = [[Pakistani people|Pakistan]]
| other_names =
| known_for = [[Urdu poet]], writer, [[polemicist]]
| occupation = Journalist
|awards =[[Padma Bhushan]] {{small|(1962)}}
|alma mater = Madrasa Islamia Fatehpur

}}
'''Niaz Fatehpuri''' (1884–1966) was the [[nom de plume]] of ''' Niyaz Muhammed Khan''',<ref>1461:{{cite web |url=http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/urdu_wrld/u_auth/index_all.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-08-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301184839/http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/urdu_wrld/u_auth/index_all.htm |archive-date=1 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> a [[Pakistani]] [[Urdu]] poet, writer, and polemicist. He was also the founder and editor of ''Nigar'', which he turned into one of the most prestigious Urdu literary journals in the [[Indian subcontinent]]. In 1962, he was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] by the [[President of India]] for "Literature and Education."

==Early life==

Niaz Fatehpuri was born in 1884 at Nayi Ghat, [[Barabanki district]],<ref>''Mulāhizāt-e-Niāz'' by Niaz Fatehpuri, pg 9 {{in lang|ur}}</ref> in what is now [[Uttar Pradesh]] during the [[British Raj]]. He died in 1966 in [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]]. Niaz Fatehpuri’s real name was [[Mawlānā]] Niyaz Muhammad Khan. He was educated at Madrasa Islamia in [[Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh|Fatehpur]], Madrasa Alia in [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]], and [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]] in [[Lucknow]]. He resigned his post in 1902 as a Police Sub-Inspector after working in this capacity for a couple of years. Thereafter, he worked in different posts until 1921, when he started editing and publishing his famous monthly journal, ''Nigar'', which served as a mirror to the literary scene in Uttar Pradesh till his migration to Pakistan in the early sixties.

His fiction consists of seven collections, besides many short stories published in the Nigar. Although at a later stage he wrote a few stories attacking religious hypocrisy and fanaticism and there is evidence to show how his desire grew to reform the society through short stories, his literary romanticism was too frank to permit him to tread the paths of reality freely.

His publications include:
* ''Man-o-Yazdan'' (on religion)
* ''Shahvaniyat'' (on sociology)
* ''Maktubat'' (his letters)
* ''Intiqadiyat'' (criticism)
* ''Jamalistan'' and ''Nigaristan'' (both short-stories) in 1939
* ''Shaair ka Anjam'' ("Fate of the Poet") in 1913
* ''Jazhabat-e-Bhasha'' (an appreciation of Hindi poetry), 2nd edn., in 1926
* ''Gahvara-e-Tamaddun'' (account of the role of women in the development of culture) in 1932
* ''Hindi Shaeri'' (on Hindi poetry) in 1936
* ''Targhibat-e-Jinsiya Sahvaniyat'' (on the development of sex knowledge) in 1941
* ''Husn ki Aiyariyan aur Dusre Afsane'' (short stories) in 1943
* ''Jhansi ki Rani'' in 1946
* ''Mukhtarat-i-Niyazi'' in 1947
* ''Naqab Uth Jane ke Bad'' in 1942
* ''Chand ghante hukmae qadim ki ruhon ke sath aur mazamin'' (three essays)
* ''Muttaleat-e-Niyaz'' (literary and historical essays) in 1947
* ''Taammulat-e-Niyaz'' (collection of articles), edited and published 1951;
* 3 volumes of his letters from 1948 to 1951
* ''Muzakirat-e-Niyaz'' (some pages of diary) in 1932
* ''Majmuah Istifsar va Javab'' (a collection of questions and answers on different topics) in 1938
* ''Sahabiyat'' (on some female followers of the [[Muhammad|Prophet Muhammad]]) in 1932

Since the publication of his first story, "''Ek Parsi Dosheeza ko Dekh Kar''" ("Having Seen a Parsi Girl") in 1910, most of his stories have revealed an imaginative preoccupation with things unworldly. Such writings can perhaps be regarded more as pieces of poetic prose than short stories which are normally pregnant with happenings. Whenever he chooses to bring in events, as in "''Cupid aur Psyche''" ("Cupid and Psyche"), abstract ideas make their sneaky appearance and overcrowd the events, with the result that they are prevented from proceeding further.

By the early forties, Niaz Fatehpuri had already switched over to philosophy and criticism, for the true features of the short story having been identified with those of Premchand by now, he could not but feel the futility of his wanderings in imaginative wilderness.

He was the editor of the famous Urdu literary magazine ''Nigar'', some of whose issues are considered permanent additions to the Urdu literature; later, was interested in Islamic history, especially the literary and political aspects of it. He was awarded Padma Bhushan for his services to Urdu in 1962.

==Literary activities==

Niaz Fatehpuri was a fiction-writer of repute, whose [[Urdu]] short-stories, which are poems in prose, are considered to be on a par with those of Munshi [[Premchand]] and find a prominent place in [[Urdu literature]]. He was also an Urdu poet and critic, and a [[polemicist]] who dared to raise his voice against [[Fundamentalism]].

Until he migrated to [[Pakistan]] in 1962,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newageislam.com/islamic-personalities/the-rationalist-and-the-romantic--niaz-fatehpuri-/d/5409|title=The Rationalist and the Romantic: Niaz Fatehpuri , Islamic Personalities, Intizar Husain (Photo: Niaz Fatehpuri), New Age Islam|website=newageislam.com}}</ref> he had continued to publish and edit ''Nigar'' the [[Urdu]] monthly journal, which he had launched in 1921. This was originally published from [[Agra]], then from [[Bhopal]] and subsequently from [[Lucknow]]. It is still published from [[Karachi]] by [[Farman Fatehpuri]].

Niaz Fatehpuri wrote on [[Urdu]] literature, on religion and on the many evils affecting the social fabric of [[India]] in his time. He has more than two dozen major works to his credit. He was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1962 for his services to [[Urdu]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref>

He died in [[Karachi]], Pakistan on 24 May 1966.<ref>https://openlibrary.org/works/OL363392W/Woh_Surten_Ilahi (Niaz Fatehpuri)</ref>

==Analysis==

In 1974, [[Malik Ram]] included him in his award-winning book of essays ''Woh Surten Ilahi'' (''The Immortals'') on nine unforgettable giants in the Urdu literary world.
<ref>https://openlibrary.org/works/OL363392W/Woh_Surten_Ilahi (Niaz Fatehpuri pp. 198–235)</ref>

In 1986, the Urdu Academy in Karachi published the book "Niaz Fatehpuri: ''Shakhsiyat aur Fikr–o–Fan''" by [[Farman Fatehpuri]] on the life and literary works of Niaz Fatehpuri.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Niaz Fatehpuri: Shakhsiyat aur Fikr-o-Fan|first=Farman|last=Fatehpuri|date=16 October 1986|publisher=Urdu Academy|ol = 19460585M}}</ref>

==Personal==
He is the father of [[Sarfaraz Niazi]], who has translated Ghalib's poetry into English in two books titled ''Love Sonnets of Ghalib'' and ''The Wine of Passion'', both published by Ferozsons, Lahore, Pakistan.<ref>http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf</ref>

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