Hasan Askari (writer)

This article is about the Pakistani scholar and writer, Muhammad Hasan Askari. For the Pakistani defence analyst, see Hasan Askari Rizvi.

Hasan Askari
Born5 November 1919
Bulandshahr, United Provinces, British India
Died18 January 1978(1978-01-18) (aged 58)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Alma materAllahabad University
Occupation(s)Scholar, literary critic
writer, linguist

Muhammad Hasan Askari (Urdu: محمد حسَن عسکری) (1919 – 18 January 1978) was a Pakistani scholar, literary critic, writer and linguist of modern Urdu language. Initially "Westernized", he translated western literary, philosophical and metaphysical work into Urdu, notably classics of American, English, French and Russian literature.[1] But in his later years, through personal experiences, geopolitical changes and the influence of authors like René Guénon, and traditional scholars of India towards more latter part of his life, like Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi,[2] he became a notable critic of the West and proponent of Islamic culture and ideology.[3][4]

  1. ^ Nasir Ahmad Farooki, A selection of contemporary Pakistani short stories, Ferozsons (1955), p. 79
  2. ^ Ahmad, Dr Aftab (1994). Muhammad Hasan Askari – Ek Mutala. Lahore, Pakistan: Sang e Meel Publications. ISBN 969-35-0462-3.
  3. ^ Mehr Afshan Farooqi, Urdu Literary Culture: Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari, Springer (2012), p. 43
  4. ^ Farrukh Kamrani (21 November 2015). "The lost world of Ishtiaq Ahmad (plus Hasan Askari)". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 1 May 2018.