Unwan Chishti
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5 February 1937
Unwan Chishti | |
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| Born | Iftikhar ul Hasan 5 February 1937 |
| Died | 1 February 2004 (aged 66) |
| Occupations | Teacher at Jamia Millia Islamia University, was Head of Urdu Department – Retired as Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Languages in 1997 |
| Known for | Nazms, Ghazals, Criticism, Historian of Literature |
Unwan Chishti (5 February 1937 – 1 February 2004) was an Urdu poet who gained repute as a poet, as a scholar, as a teacher and as a literary critic. He was the disciple of Abr Ahasani Gunnauri.
Chishti was born Iftikharul Hasan in Manglaur, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand.[1] He was the son of Pirzadah Shah Anwarul Hasan Anwar Manglauri. He completed his early education in Manglaur and Muzaffarnagar. After his graduation he got his M.A. (geography, 1961), M.A. (Urdu, 1963), M.Lit. (1968), and Ph.D. (1973) degrees. He worked as a lecturer in Shoaib Mohammadia College in Agra before joining Jamia Millia Islamia on 15 September 1964. He taught Urdu and rose to be the Head of Urdu Department, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi; he retired in 1997 as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Languages.[2]
