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Fateh Muhammad Malik

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Occupation
  
Critic and scholar

Name
  
Fateh Malik

Ethnicity
  
Punjabi


Nationality
  
Pakistani

Language
  
Urdu, English

Notable awards
  
Sitara-i-Imtiaz

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Notable works
  
Iqbal's reconstruction of Muslim political thought Iqbal Inspired Humour: A Note on Parodies by Selected Urdu Poets Saadat Hassan Manto ek nai taabeer Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi shair aur afsana nigar Faiz shairi aur siyasat Fitnaie-Inkaar-i-Pakistan Khitaah-i-Khak ya Arz-i-Paak Ghulamon ki Ghulami

Alma mater
  
Talagang Tehsil, Attock District, Gordon College

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Fateh Muhammad Malik, (Urdu: فتح محمد ملک‎ born 1936) is a Pakistani literary critic, linguist and a scholar. He has authored several books including an essay "Iqbal Inspired Humour: A Note on Parodies by Selected Urdu Poets" published in Of Clowns and Gods, Brahmans and Babus - Humour in South Asian Literatures.

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Iqbal had a key influence on him and he wrote at least six books on him including his book Iqbal's reconstruction of Muslim political thought published by University of Leicester, England. His major work while working for National Language Authority was a five-volume book on the origin of Urdu as a language.

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Career

Malik is the chairman of the National Language Authority. He served as Rector of the International Islamic University, Islamabad until 2012 when he was sacked by then President Zardari under pressureof from the Saudi government. Before being sacked from his post, he criticized Saudi Arabia's practices as uncivilized and anti-women during a seminar.

He also served this university as a dean of the faculty of languages, literature and humanities.

Before starting his career in Pakistan, he taught at Columbia University of New York City, Heidelberg University and Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and Saint Petersburg University of Russia for ten years.

Awards and recognition

  • Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award (Star of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan in 2006
  • References

    Fateh Muhammad Malik Wikipedia