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'''''Shabkhoon''''' was an [[Urdu]] [[literary magazine]] started in June 1966 in [[Allahabad]], India.<ref name="abrar">{{cite web|author1=Ahmad|first=Abrar|date=|title=Shab Khoon expires at forty|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305042955/http://urdu-club00.tripod.com/id25.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=|archive-date=5 March 2016|accessdate=10 May 2015|work=Urdu Club}}</ref> The magazine was founded and edited by poet and author [[Shamsur Rahman Faruqi]] who used to work on it along with his job at the Indian Postal Service. The journal covered the modernist (jadidiyat) voice in Urdu literature at a time when the literary scene was dominated by progressive literature (taraqqi pasand) and was hailed as "the harbinger of modernism in Urdu".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pue|first=A. Sean|date=2011-12-01|title=In the mirror of Ghalib: Post-colonial reflections on Indo-Muslim selfhood|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/001946461104800404|journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review|language=en|volume=48|issue=4|pages=571–592|doi=10.1177/001946461104800404|issn=0019-4646}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Farooqi|first=Mehr Afshan|date=2021-02-01|title=Remembering my father, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/books/remembering-shamsur-rahman-faruqi|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201235735/https://caravanmagazine.in/books/remembering-shamsur-rahman-faruqi|archive-date=2021-02-01|access-date=2021-02-01|website=The Caravan|language=en}}</ref> The Magazine was calligraphed by a scribe (katib) Salimullah Naiyer.<ref name=":0" /> Forty years after being started, the journal was published for the last time in June 2006.<ref name=":0" /> Though it was popular, it ceased publication owing to editor Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's failing health.<ref name="abrar" /><br />
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Describing the support of his wife Jamila Faruqi, Rehman said:<br />
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{{Quote|text=Without Jamila, there would have been no Shabkhoon and without Shabkhoon my struggle to become a writer of my kind would never have ended.|author=Shamsur Rehman Faruqi|title=|source=in a conversation with [[Mayank Austen Soofi]]}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Soofi|first=Mayank Austen|date=2014-11-15|title=Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: Darcy was a ‘damn sexist’|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/n6UCQZrqyozgLHV0W1IFAL/Shamsur-Rahman-Faruqi-Darcy-was-a-damn-sexist.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127000437if_/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/n6UCQZrqyozgLHV0W1IFAL/Shamsur-Rahman-Faruqi-Darcy-was-a-damn-sexist.html|archive-date=2021-01-27|access-date=2021-02-02|website=mint|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Origins ==<br />
Faruqi initially thought of naming the Magazine ''Teesha'' (axe or adze) associated with [[Farhad (Persian literature)|Farhad]], a stonemason in the Persian Romance [[Khosrow and Shirin]], who had to cut through a mountain. Finally, ''Shabkhoon'' (surprise attack by night) — an allusion to "shaking the world of [urdu] literature out of stasis" — was decided upon. The magazine was financially supported by Faruqi's wife Jamila. It was published for the first time in June 1966 with Progressive writer Ejaz Hussain as its first editor.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kumar|first=Nikhil|date=2019-04-01|title=Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: The literary life of a translator|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/literature/dastan-e-shamsur-literary-life-translator|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-02-05|website=The Caravan|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Notable Contributors ==<br />
The magazine became so popular that progressive writers started contributing to the magazine. The magazine also published works of Pakistani writers. Some of the notable contributors include:<br />
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* [[Adil Mansuri]]<br />
* [[Ali Sardar Jafri]]<br />
* [[Enver Sajjad|Anwar Sajjad]]<br />
* [[Asif Farrukhi]]<br />
* [[Balraj Komal]]<br />
* [[Intizar Hussain]]<br />
* [[Ismat Chughtai]]<br />
* [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]]<br />
* [[Zafar Iqbal (poet)|Zafar Iqbal]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.rekhta.org/emagazines/shab-khoon Various editions of the magazine are available on Rekhta]<br />
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==References==<br />
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