Aijaz () Siddiqi (1911–1978) was an

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writer and poet. He was the son of the famous

poet, Seemab Akbarabadi. He was born in

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. After having founded ''Qasr-ul-Adab'' in 1923, Seemab Akbarabadi had in the year 1930 started publication of a literary journal in

from

titled Shair; he was its first editor. A few years later i.e. in 1935, in order to concentrate on the other than more important activities of ''Qasr-ul- Adab'', he had handed over the charge of this magazine to Aijaz Siddiqi who carrying forward the tradition of his father remained its editor till 1978 long after the publication of Shair was shifted from

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in 1947 and Seemab Akbarabadi had in 1951 died in

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. Mahendra Nath, the Urdu short-story writer and younger brother of

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had also joined him to compile and edit several special issues of Shair. In his dress and appearance Aijaz resembled his father. Presently there exist two collections of his poems – 1) ''Khwaabon ke masiha'' and 2) ''Karb e khud kalaami'', both published in 1966.http://www.openlibrary.org/OL11294A/Aijaz_Siddiqi

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