Christopher Shackle

Christopher Shackle (born 4 March 1942) is a retired Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia in the University of London, Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, and also Professor, Department of Study of Religions at that university. He is furthermore the head of the Urdu department at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London, Project Leader at AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures, and a member of the Centre of South Asian Studies. He is also an expert of Siraiki language.Mehr_Abdul_Haq taught him Siraiki.He wrote several books on Siraiki language 'literature and Khwaja_Ghulam_Farid

He has written many books, and published over 19 book chapters and journal articles in the field or Urdu literature. He served as Head of Department from 1983 to 1987 and as Pro-Director of SOAS from 1997 until 2003

Awards

• Fellow of the British Academy in 1990.
• 2004 Award of the Royal Asiatic Society
• Pakistan's highest award for the arts, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, in 2005

Books written

• Teach yourself Punjabi
• The Siraiki language of central Pakistan- A Reference Grammar
• From Wuch to Southern Lahnda: a century of Siraiki studies in English
• (with A Mandair) Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures, 214pp. Routledge (UK & US). ISBN 0415266041. 2005.
• Siraiki Marsiya, 94pp. Bazme Saqafat (Pakistan). ISBN none. 2003.
• (with D J Matthews, S Husain) Urdu Literature, 288pp. Alhamra (Pakistan). ISBN 9695161197.2003. (
• (with J Majeed) Hali's Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam, 262pp. Oxford University Press (Delhi). ISBN 0-19-564091-8. 1997.

• Edited books: 2003. SOAS Since the Sixties, 185pp. SOAS (UK). ISBN 0728603535.
• Teachings of Khawaja Farid (Translation of Isharat-i-Faridi)1978:Bazm-i-Saqafat-Multan
• Fifty poems of Khawaja Farid:Translation in English verse of poems of Khawaja Farid:published 1973:Bazm-i-Saqafat-Multan Pakistan

External links

• SOAS Staff page

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