Abid Ali Abid

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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.^[1][2][3]

Abid Ali Abid
Born	(1906-09-17)September 17, 1906 Dera Ismail Khan, British India
Died	January 20, 1971(1971-01-20) (aged 64) Lahore, Pakistan
Occupation	Poet, Educator
Language	Urdu, Persian
Nationality	Pakistani
Notable works	Talismaat, Shahbaz Khan, Main Kabhi Ghazal na Kahta, Usool-E-Intequade-Adabiyat, Shar-i-Iqbal

Life

He wrote books on literary criticism in Urdu and Persian. He also initiated and edited several literary journals, including Sahifa-Lahore.^{[citation needed]} He was one of the initial drama and feature writers at the newly established Radio Pakistan Lahore in the late 1940s and 1950s.^{[citation needed]} He survived three heart attacks but succumbed to the fourth in 1971.^[4]

Selected work

• Story writing of films like the first talkie, Heer Ranjha (1931) ^[4]

Books

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• 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)