Syed Masud Hasan Rizvi

Adib Masud Hassan Rizavi (1893–1975) was an Indian author and a scholar of Urdu literature. Born in 1893 in Bahraich in the North-Western Provinces of British India, he did his early college studies at the Canning College, Lucknow after which he secured a master's degree in Persian literature from Lucknow University.

Rizavi published his first book, Imtihan-i-Wafa in 1918 which was a translation of an Alfred Lord Tennyson work. Lucknow ka Awami Stage, Urdu Zaban aur Uska Rasm-i-kat, Mutafarriqat-e-Ghalib, Anisyat, Wajid Ali Shah, Madras-e-Rekhta and Azeezi Lucknowi are some of his other notable publications, the last four books getting released after his death in 1975. Rizavi, whose son, Naiyer Masud, is also a known short story writer,