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Activities85
Children's Literature1985
Drama924 Education343 Essays & Profiles1390 Fiction1597 Health105 History3285Humorous608 Journalism201 Language & Literature1709 Letters743
Life Style30 Medicine982 Movements272 Novel4304 Political354 Religions4754Research & Criticism6610Short-story2685 Sketches244 Social issues109 Sufism / Mystic2038Text Books450 Translation4246Women's writings5827-
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- Humorous31
- Intikhab1604
- Keh mukarni7
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- Marsiya387
- Masnavi748
- Musaddas44
- Naat584
- Nazm1205
- Others82
- Paheli15
- Qasida182
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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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