Mumtaz Mufti

Mumtaz Mufti ممتاز مفتی
Born	September 11, 1905 Batala, Punjab, British India
Died	October 27, 1995 (aged 90) Islamabad, Pakistan
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Pakistani
Genres	Fiction, Sufism
Subjects	Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Socialism
Notable work(s)	Ali Pur Ka Aeeli, Alakh Nagri, Labbaik, Un Kahi, Talash, Muftianey
Notable award(s)	Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 1986 Munshi Premchand Award, 1989

Mumtaz Mufti SI (Urdu: ممتاز مفتی) (September 11, 1905 – October 27, 1995), was a distinguished writer from Pakistan.

Early life

Mumtaz Mufti was born in Batala, Punjab, (now in India). He was a son of Mufti Muhammad Hussain and his first wife Sughra Khannum. He became a civil servant under British rule and started career as a school teacher. Soon after partition, he migrated to Pakistan with his family.

Significance

Mumtaz Mufti started writing Urdu short stories while working as a school teacher before partition. In the beginning of his literary career, he was considered a non-conformist writer having liberal views, who appeared influenced by Freud. His transformation from Liberalism to Sufism was due to his inspiration from Qudrat Ullah Shahab. All the same, he did manage to retain his individual accent and wrote on subjects which were frowned upon by the conservative elements in society.

The two phases of his life are witnessed by his autobiographies, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli and Alakh Nagri. According to forewords mentioned in his later autobiography, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli is an account of a lover who challenged the social taboos of his times, and Alakh Nagri is an account of an acolyte who greatly influenced by the mysticism of Qudrat Ullah Shahab.

Talaash (which means 'A Search')was the last book written by Mumtaz Mufti. It can be treated as a summary of his previous writings, in the sense that, in this book Mufti has presented all the findings of his life. It consists of various topics relevant to human life. Mufti writes that he has raised all the questions that he was after throughout his life, and suggests that the reader should also try to look for the answers. It has a touch of Sufism but in reality it is not a full fledged book of sufism. One of the best writers Pakistan has ever produced.

Awards

• 1986: Sitara-e-Imtiaz
• 1989: Munshi Premchand Award

Works

Alakh Nagri Ali Pur Ka Aeeli docter ka istemaal Ram Din Un Kahi Chup Guria Ghar Ismaraeen Kahi Na Jai Labbaik, (Download [1])

Muftianey Nizam e Sakaa Roughani Putlay Samay Ka Bandhan Hind Yaatra Piyaaz Ke Chhilkay Okhay Awallay Aur Okhay Log Talash, (Download [2])

External links

• Listen to Books written by Mumtaz Mufti
• Obituary
• Download Books by Mumtaz Mufti

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Name	Mufti, Mumtaz
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Short description
Date of birth	September 11, 1905
Place of birth	Batala, Punjab, British India
Date of death	October 27, 1995
Place of death	Islamabad, Pakistan