Mukhtaruddin Ahmad

Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo
Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo
Born	November 14, 1924; Zafar Manzil, Azimabad, Patna district, Bihar
Died	June 30, 2010 (aged 85); Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

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

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]

Arzu, Mukhtar Uddin Ahmad (1949). The Aligarh Urdu magazine: Ghalib number (in Urdu). Muslim University Press.
Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin. Halat-e-Zindagi-e-Abdul Haq (in Urdu). 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 Urdu). 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Analysis of the Leiden MS of Jamharat Al-Islām by Muslim B. Maḥmūd Al S̲h̲ayzarī, and a Critical Edition of Hitherto Unpublished Passages from Writers and Poets Down to the Fourth Century A.H., with Annotations.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 Urdu). Aligarh: Muslim Yūnīvarsiṭī Press.
Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin. Meer Ali al-Katib Ka Ek Shahkar (in Urdu).
Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin; Ram, Malik (1965). Nazr-e-Arshi (in Urdu). New Delhi: Majlis Nazr-e-Arshi.
Rizvi, Sayyad Azeez Husain (2009). Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (ed.). Hayat-e-Zafar (in Urdu). Mumbai: Anjuman Barkat Raza.
Ahmad, Mukhtaruddin (1960). Mohammad bin Ali al-Ustadar al-Zahiri (in Urdu). Aligarh: Idara-e-Uloom-e-Islamia.

^ قندیل (2022-04-28). "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 Urdu). Retrieved 2024-10-18.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d TwoCircles.net (2010-06-30). "Prof. Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo passes away". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
^ "The Milli Gazette". www.milligazette.com. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
^ "Professor Mukhtaruddin Ahmed". www.milligazette.com. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
^ Mahuli 2005, p. 95.
^ ^a ^b Usmani, Afzal (2021-09-21). "Prof. Mukhtaruddin Ahmad 'Arzoo | Aligarh Movement". Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
^ Siddiqi, Ather H. (2021-09-21). "Professor Mukhtar Uddin Ahmad "Arzoo" : Professor Ather H. Siddiqi | Aligarh Movement". Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
^ Naqvi, Noorul Hasan (2001). Muhammad College Se Muslim University Tak [From Muhammad College to Muslim University] (in Urdu). Educational Lake House. p. 411.

Ram, Malik (1988). Nazr-e-Mukhtar (in Urdu). New Delhi: Majlis Nazr-e-Mukhtar.
Zarrin, Drakhshan. "Mukhtaruddin Ahmad aarzooki Urdu Khidmat". Khuda Bakhsh Library Journal Patna Jan.-Mar. 2013. Khuda Baksh Oriental Library.
Mahuli, Shahid (2005). Professor Mukhtaruddin Ahmad: Mohaqqiq Aur Danishwar (in Urdu). New Delhi: Ghalib Institute.
Zubair, Mohammad. Mukhtar Ud Din Arzoo Bahiseyat Muhaqiqe (Thesis). University of Delhi. hdl:10603/376451.
Ashraf, Chaudhary Tauqir (2020). "پروفیسر مختار الدین احمد : ماہر غالبیات" [Prof. Mukhtaruddin Ahmed: Dominionist]. Noor-e-Tahqeeq. 4 (15): 106–118 – via Lahore Garrison University.