Columnist Nawa-e-Waqt Group
Born: N/A
Profession: Journalist , Writer
Affiliation(s): Nawa-e-Waqt News
Citizenship: Pakistani
Fateh Muhammad Malik is a Pakistani literary critic who is chairman of the Pakistani National Language Authority. He is author of the essay "Iqbal Inspired Humour: A Note on Parodies by Selected Urdu Poets" published in Of Clowns and Gods, Brahmans and Babus - Humour in South Asian Literatures.
According to Pakistan Academy of Letters Chairman Iftikhar Arif, Malik is "a great critic, a prominent intellectual and a distinguished scholar of Pakistaniat and Iqbaliat. He always expresses his views about the identity of Islamic Ummah with a passion that traces back to Allama Muhammad Iqbal." He added that Malik also performing a significant national service as the National Language Authority chairman.
International Islamic University
Malik is currently Rector of the International Islamic University, Islamabad in Pakistan. He has served this university as a Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Languages & Literature and as a Professor of the Urdu Department.
References
Prof Fateh Muhammad Malik: Life and Works by Muhammad Hameed Shahid, 2008 (Pakistani Adab Ke Memar series)
Heidelberg South Asian Studies(Christina Oesterheld and Claus Peter Zoller, eds., Of Clowns and Gods, Brahmans and Babus - Humour in South Asian Literatures (University of Heidelberg, 1999).
"PAL publishes books on two literary critics" Daily Times Friday, February 08, 2008.
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