Mushfiq Khwaja

Early life and education Khwaja was born in 1935 in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan). His father, Khwaja Abdul Waheed, was a noted scholar.

In 1964, the quarterly journal Al-Zubair issued a special number on autobiographies (Aap Beeti Number), which included his essay on the genre. The essay discussed the tradition of autobiography in Urdu and presented excerpts from several little-known works.

A preservation project, titled the Mushfiq Khwaja Library and Research Centre and Khwaja Abdul Waheed Collection, was established under the coordination of the University of Chicago. The project was named after Khwaja and his father, Khwaja Abdul Waheed. The collection was initially housed at Khwaja's residence in Karachi, where cataloguing, microfilming, and digitization were carried out.

Later the University of Chicago Library, with funding from the Arcadia Fund, began digitizing selected Urdu periodicals from the collection.