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Abid Ali Abid

Syed Abid Ali Abid  was an 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 was well known for his literary criticism and had hundreds of students, many of them now themselves poets and writers.[citation needed] He wrote many books on literary criticism in Urdu and Persian. He also initiated and edited several literary journals, one of which is Sahifa-Lahore. He also was one of the initial drama writers and feature writers at the newly established Radio Pakistan Lahore in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was one of the story and dialogue writers of the first sound film (talking film) of the Punjab Heer Ranjha (1931).[citation needed] He survived three heart attacks but succumbed to the fourth.[1]

Family 
One of his daughters, Shabnam Shakeel followed the footsteps of her father, and was a poet based in Islamabad. His only son Syed Menoo Chehr served as Secretary to Government of the Punjab in various departments as well as Chief settlement Commissioner,Punjab and was retired as Member Board of Revenue,Punjab and is also the author of two biographical treaties titled Mere Shab-o-Roz and karwan-e-Guzran and a novel Azmaish Dil-o-Nazar ki.[citation needed]

Selected work 
Story writing of films like the first Punjabi talkie, Heer Ranjha (1931) [1]
Writer of more than 200 dramas at Radio Pakistan Lahore from 1948 to 1960[citation needed]
Editor Sahifa-Lahore, a quarterly literary journal, 1957 to 1971[citation needed]
Translated Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy into Urdu[citation needed]
Books and poetry 
For a detailed list see [1]

Talismaat (The Magic), Urdu fiction, Hashmi Book Depot Lahore, Pakistan
Shahbaz Khan, Urdu fiction, ISBN 969-35-0721-5, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan
Main Kabhi Ghazal na Kahta, Urdu poetry, ISBN 969-35-0181-0, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Pakistan
Usool-E-Intequade-Adabiyat (Rules of Literary Criticism)
Shar-i-Iqbal, (A criticism of Iqbal's Poetry), ISBN 969-35-1436-X / 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)

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