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Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo
Born(1924-11-14)14 November 1924
Zafar Manzil, Azimabad, Patna district, Bihar
Died30 June 2010(2010-06-30) (aged 85)
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Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo (14 November 1924 – 30 June 2010) was an Indian literary critic and Writer of Urdu language. He was former Dean of Faculty of Arts at Aligarh Muslim University.[1] He was appointed as the lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Aligarh Muslim University in 1953. He was the founding Vice Chancellor of Maulana Mazharul Haque Arabic and Persian University.[2][3] He was appointed as the Senior Fellow at Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan in 2004.[4]

Early life and education[edit | edit source]

Ahmad was born into a religious family of Maulana Zafaruddin Bihari Qadri Razvi, a disciple of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi on 14 November 1924 at Azimabad in Bihar.[5][6] They are a claimed descendant of Malik Ibrahim Baya of Bihar Sharif.[7][8]

He completed his education till Maulvi and Alimiyat under his father at Madrasa Shamsul Huda, Patna.[6]

Literary works[edit | edit source]

  • Arzu, Mukhtar Uddin Ahmad (1949). The Aligarh Urdu magazine: Ghalib number (in اردو). Muslim University Press.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin. Halat-e-Zindagi-e-Abdul Haq (in اردو). Delhi: Sahitya Academy.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1992). Abdul Haq: Maker of Indian Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 978-81-7201-023-2.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1956). Naqd-e-Ghalib (in اردو). Delhi: Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdū.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1956). An Introduction to and Analysis of the Leiden MS of Jamharat Al-Islām by Muslim B. Maḥmūd Al S̲h̲ayzarī, and a Critical Edition of Hitherto Unpublished Passages from Writers and Poets Down to the Fourth Century A.H., with Annotations. University of Oxford Press.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1960). Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī al-Ustādār aẓ-Ẓāhirī (in اردو). Aligarh: Muslim Yūnīvarsiṭī Press.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin. Meer Ali al-Katib Ka Ek Shahkar (in اردو).
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin; Ram, Malik (1965). Nazr-e-Arshi (in اردو). New Delhi: Majlis Nazr-e-Arshi.
  • Rizvi, Sayyad Azeez Husain (2009). Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (ed.). Hayat-e-Zafar (in اردو). Mumbai: Anjuman Barkat Raza.
  • Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1960). Mohammad bin Ali al-Ustadar al-Zahiri (in اردو). Aligarh: Idara-e-Uloom-e-Islamia.

Awards and honours[edit | edit source]

  • Certificate of Honour from President of India[2]
  • Ghalib Award (1983)[2]
  • Sir Syed Lifetime Achievement Award[2]

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Citations[edit | edit source]

  1. قندیل (28 April 2022). "نقشِ مختار: پروفیسر مختارالدین احمد آرزو کے وقیع علمی ، تحقیقی اور تبصراتی مضامین - شکیل رشید" [Mukhtaruddin Ahmed Arzoo's scholarly, research and commentary essays]. قندیل - Qindeel (in اردو). Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 TwoCircles.net (30 June 2010). "Prof. Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo passes away". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  3. "The Milli Gazette". www.milligazette.com. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  4. "Professor Mukhtaruddin Ahmed". www.milligazette.com. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  5. Mahuli 2005, p. 95.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Usmani, Afzal (21 September 2021). "Prof. Mukhtaruddin Ahmad 'Arzoo | Aligarh Movement". Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  7. Siddiqi, Ather H. (21 September 2021). "Professor Mukhtar Uddin Ahmad "Arzoo" : Professor Ather H. Siddiqi | Aligarh Movement". Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  8. Naqvi, Noorul Hasan (2001). Muhammad College Se Muslim University Tak [From Muhammad College to Muslim University] (in اردو). Educational Lake House. p. 411.

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