Moin Ahsan Jazbi

Moin Ahsan Jazbi (21 August 1912 – 13 February 2005) was an Indian poet and writer. He was a member of Progressive Writers Movement. He was a contemporary of Ale Ahmed Suroor, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Abdul Qavi Desnavi, Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri and close friend of Asrarul Haq Majaz. He served as a teacher and reader of Urdu at Aligarh Muslim University.

He started reading poetry of Mirza Ghalib at very young age and started to write at the age of 9. At the age of 19, he wrote a Ghazal which introduced him with other Poets of contemporary time. Some of his known works are Firozaan, Sukhan-e-Mukhtasar, Gudaaz-e-Shab and Hali Ka Siyasi Shaoor. He was awarded with Ghalib Award in 1975 for poetry along with Qazi Abdul Wadood for research and Mohammad Hasan for Drama.

Early life and education Moin Ahsan Jazbi was born as Moin Ahsan to Ahsanul Ghafoor at Mubarakpur, Azamgarh district. His ancestors originally belonged to Meerut, his great-grandfather Maulvi Hamza Ali was a scholar who shifted to Danapur, Patna during first Indian Independence movement, when Dr. Abdul Ghafoor, grandfather of Jazbi was only 5 years old.

He completed his Bachelor of Arts from Anglo-Arabic College, Delhi (now known as Zakir Husain Delhi College) in 1932 and Master of Arts from Aligarh Muslim University in 1934. Scholarly works

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