Omer Tarin
| Omer Tarin (also Omar Tarin and Omer Tareen) | |
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| Born |
Omer Salim Khan 10 March 1967 Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, scholar, Chishtiyya-Nizamiyya-Qadiriyya sufi |
Omer Tarin (real name: Omer Salim Khan),DLitt, FRAS, FPAL, etc.; born 10 March 1967, is a Pakistani poet, research scholar, social activist and mystic. In some editions of his works, the name is written as Omar Tarin.
Tarin was born in Peshawar city, in 1967 to the Tarin (or Tareen) family, or clan, of Talokar (village), of the Hazara region of the North-West Frontier (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), while his father was posted as a senior civil servant and administrator in Peshawar. From his maternal side, he is related to the Hayat family of Wah, as well as the Hakim Khana family of Lahore, Punjab. He was educated at the Burn Hall School (now Army Burn Hall College), Abbottabad and the Aitchison College, Pakistan, prior to graduating from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. He later obtained various higher degrees in English and Post-colonial Studies from Pakistan and the United Kingdom respectively.
After a short time in the civil service of Pakistan, Tarin resigned to become a full-time university lecturer and research scholar and involved himself in literary and academic pursuits. He has published five volumes of poetry in English so far, widely reviewed in Pakistan and abroad, as well as several poems published in anthologies and collections worldwide. His volumes of poetry are : A Sad Piper (1994; 1996 UK),The Anvil of Dreams (1995),Burnt Offerings (1996, 1997) and Riverbeds Flowing and The Harvest of Love Songs (1997, 2000; and UK ed 2003). Since 2005, he has not published any new volumes of poetry although he has been publishing poems independently from time to time. In recent years, he has also been involved in various literary and historical projects of an academic nature, chiefly focussing on the colonial history of South Asia, in particular North-Western Pakistan. Recent academic publications include works on military history/campaigns on the Frontier and some work on Rudyard Kipling and Kipling's India. A number of these works are available or referenced online, and were published in the Kipling Journal, UK and the Journal of the Indian Military Historical Society, also the UK. He has diverse academic and literary interests and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, UK, The Tolkien Society (UK), associate of the Kipling Society, and the Indian Military Historical Society (IMHS).
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