Abid Ali Abid

Abid Ali Abid (Urdu/Persian: سید عابد علی عابد) was a Pakistani Urdu and Persian poet and educator who was born on 17 September 1906 in Dera Ismail Khan, British India and died in Lahore, Pakistan on 20 January 1971.

Life He wrote books on literary criticism in Urdu and Persian and "it was his criticism that earned him a place of distinction." His works include Usool-e-Inteqaad, Adab Ke Asloob, Shama, Yad-e-Baiza, Suhaag, Talmihaat-e-Iqbal, Tilasmaat, Main Kabhi Ghazal Na Kehta, Baresham Ood, and Inteqaad.

He also initiated and edited several literary journals, including Sahifa-Lahore. He was one of the initial drama and feature writers at the newly established Radio Pakistan Lahore in the late 1940s and 1950s. He survived three heart attacks but succumbed to the fourth in 1971.

Selected work

Story writing of films like the first talkie, Heer Ranjha (1931)

Books

Talismaat (The Magic), Urdu fiction, Hashmi Book Depot Lahore, Pakistan Shahbaz Khan, Urdu fiction, , Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan Main Kabhi Ghazal na Kahta, Urdu poetry, , Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan Usool-E-Intequade-Adabiyat (Rules of Literary Criticism) Shar-i-Iqbal, (A criticism of Iqbal's Poetry), / 969351436X, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan Political Theory of the Shi'ties, Part of the history of Muslim philosophy. Asloob, an Urdu book on literary criticism Albayan, an Urdu book on literary criticism Al Badeeh (Mohsinaat e Shairi Ka Intaqadi Jaiza): (Criticism of the Characteristics of Urdu poetry)