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Activities86
Children's Literature1989
Drama919 Education344 Essays & Profiles1380 Fiction1582 Health105 History3278Humorous607 Journalism202 Language & Literature1706 Letters738
Life Style30 Medicine980 Movements272 Novel4300 Political355 Religions4755Research & Criticism6602Short-story2680 Sketches242 Social issues109 Sufism / Mystic2038Text Books451 Translation4248Women's writings5833-
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- Intikhab1599
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- Marsiya386
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- Musaddas42
- Naat580
- Nazm1193
- Others82
- Paheli15
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- Salaam34
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- shahr-Ashob, Hajw, Zatal Nama17
- Tareekh-Goi26
- Translation74
- Wasokht25
Profile of Shamim Tariq
qabīla-vār adāvat kā silsila 'tāriq'
fasād-e-shahr kī sūrat meñ ab bhī chaltā hai
qabila-war adawat ka silsila 'tariq'
fasad-e-shahr ki surat mein ab bhi chalta hai
Identity: Researcher, critic, poet, and columnist
Shamim Tariq was born on 8 August 1952 in Varanasi (Banaras), India. He established a distinct identity in the fields of research, literary criticism, poetry, journalism, and intellectual discourse. He has been based in Mumbai, where he served as the Director of the Karimi Library under Anjuman-e-Islam until 2019. He was also associated with the Anjuman Islam Urdu Research Institute and its quarterly journal Nawa-e-Adab.
Shamim Tariq introduced new intellectual dimensions to Urdu research and criticism. His work on Sufism, the Bhakti movement, Iqbal studies, Ghalib studies, Amir Khusro, Rabindranath Tagore, and the Indian cultural tradition is regarded as highly significant. His writings prominently reflect themes of religious and cultural harmony, human unity, spiritual values, and contemporary consciousness. Through comparative studies of Sufi and Vedantic thought, he made serious efforts to highlight shared human values.
His well-known work Tasawwuf aur Bhakti received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu in 2015. The book presents a scholarly analysis of the intellectual and spiritual affinities between Sufi and Bhakti traditions. Among his other notable works are Fahm-e-Iqbal, Ghalib aur Hamari Tehreek-e-Azadi, Ghalib, Bahadur Shah Zafar aur San 1857, Sharaf-e-Mehnat wa Kafalat, Sufiya ka Bhakti Raag, and Kali Das Gupta Raza.
Shamim Tariq is also an active journalist and columnist. He has regularly written columns for the Urdu daily Inquilab on political, social, educational, cultural, and literary issues. His prose is marked by elegance, intellectual depth, and strong reasoning, while his poetry reflects spiritual anguish, humanism, and contemporary sensibility.
Authority Control :The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) : n89166287
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