Abid Ali Abid (

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

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: سید عابد علی عابد) was a Pakistani

and

poet and educator who was born on 17 September 1906 in

Dera Ismail Khan Dera Ismail Khan (; Urdu and , ), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, is a city and capital of Dera Ismail Khan District, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 10th largest city of Pakistan and third or fourth largest in the province of Khy ...

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and died in

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on 20 January 1971.

Life

He wrote books on literary criticism in Urdu and Persian. He also initiated and edited several literary journals, including Sahifa-Lahore. He was one of the initial

drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...

and feature writers at the newly established

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in the late 1940s and 1950s. He survived three heart attacks but succumbed to the fourth in 1971.Urdu text book for BA, Published by Prince Books, Lahore Pakistan, 2005 (A book for Urdu as elective subject in BA)

Selected work

* Story writing of films like the first

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, ''

Heer Ranjha '' Ranjha'' () is a classical Punjabi folk tragedy with many historic poetic narrations; with the first one penned by Damodar Gulati in 1600s, on the preexisting oral legend; and the most famous one, ''Heer'', written by Waris Shah in 17 ...

'' (1931)

Books

* ''Talismaat'' (''The Magic)'', Urdu fiction, Hashmi Book Depot

* ''Shahbaz Khan'', Urdu fiction, , Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan * ''Main Kabhi Ghazal na Kahta'', Urdu poetry, , Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan * ''Usool-E-Intequade-Adabiyat'' (Rules of Literary Criticism) * ''Shar-i-Iqbal'', (A criticism of

Iqbal Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 187721 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

's Poetry), / 969351436X, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan *
Political Theory of the Shi'ties
', Part of the history of

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philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. * ''Asloob'', an Urdu book on

literary criticism A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's ...

* ''Albayan'', an Urdu book on literary criticism * ''Al Badeeh (Mohsinaat e Shairi Ka Intaqadi Jaiza)'': (Criticism of the Characteristics of

Urdu poetry Urdu poetry ( ) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan. According to Naseer Turabi, there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d. 1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. ...

)

References

External links

A link to Abid's poetry

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abid, Abid Ali 1906 births 1971 deaths Urdu-language poets from Pakistan Persian-language poets People from British India 20th-century Pakistani poets