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Khurshid Rizvi

خورشيد رضوي

Notable figure b. 1942 · Source: The past has more to say, The News on Sunday; al-Hafiz ʿAbd al-Qadir, al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), pp. 19, 21 · Second source: One on one with a decorated scholar, Gulf Times (1 November 2015)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor of Qalaʾid al-Juman; historian of early Arabic poetry

Biography

Born in Amroha and raised at Sahiwal in the Punjab, he took his doctorate in Arabic at the University of the Punjab (1981) and headed the Arabic department at Government College, Lahore (1991–1995). He edited Qalaʾid al-juman fi faraʾid shuʿaraʾ hadha al-zaman, wrote in Urdu the three-volume Arabic Literature before Islam, and put al-Busiri's Burda into Urdu free verse.