Labbaik
| Mumtaz Mufti (writer) ممتاز مفتی |
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| Born | 11 September 1905 Batala, Punjab, British India |
| Died | 27 October 1995 (aged 90) Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Writerلکھاری |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Genre | Fiction writer, sufism |
| Subject | Literature, philosophy, psychology, socialism |
| Notable works | Ali Pur Ka Aeeli, Alakh Nagri, Labbaik, Un Kahi, Talash, Muftianey |
| Notable awards |
Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 1986 Munshi Premchand Award, 1989 |
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Mumtaz Mufti (Urdu: ممتاز مفتی) (September 11, 1905 – October 27, 1995), was a writer from Pakistan.
Mumtaz Mufti was born in Batala, Punjab (now in India). He was a son of Muhammad Hussain and his first wife Sughra Khanum. He was employed as a civil servant under British rule and had earlier started his career as a school teacher. Soon after partition in 1947, he migrated to Pakistan with his family.
Mumtaz Mufti started writing Urdu short stories while working as a school teacher before 1947. In the beginning of his literary career, he was considered, by other literary critics, a non-conformist writer having liberal views, who appeared influenced by the psychologist Freud. Pakistan's famous writer Ashfaq Ahmed was one of his close friends. According to Ashfaq Ahmed, Mufti used to read unpopular literature by a Swedish writer before 1947. Mufti initially did not like the 1947 partition plan of British India, but changed his views later to become a patriotic Pakistani. In his later life, he used to defend Islam and its principles. His transformation from Liberalism to Sufism was due to his inspiration from a fellow writer Qudrat Ullah Shahab. Despite all the changes in his viewpoints, he did manage to retain his individual point of view and wrote on subjects which were frowned upon by the conservative elements in the society.
The two phases of his life are witnessed by his autobiographies, Ali Pur Ka Aeeli (1961) 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 a devotee who is greatly influenced by the mysticism of Qudrat Ullah Shahab.
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