Mohiuddin Qadri Zore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Urdu scholar
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Place of Birth: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
About Mohiuddin Qadri Zore
- Syed Mohiuddin Qadri Zore (December 1905 – September 1962) was an accomplished writer, scholar, poet, literary critic, historian, and social reformer.
- He is best known for his pursuit of the rejuvenation of Urdu language and literature, writing 61 books in his lifetime, generating a major foundation of the Urdu literature now taught in all schools throughout India.
- Recognized as the first Urdu linguist, his writing ranged from short stories to novels to poetry, social commentary, scholarly criticism, and linguistic analysis.
- Along with his written legacy, one of his greatest contributions to revitalizing Urdu was his establishment of the organization Idare Adabiyaat e Urdu (also known as 'Aiwan-e-Urdu') dedicated to the recovery, restoration, and digitalization of aging and disentegrating texts, books, and manuscripts, which are used in research of the ancient language.
- He also helped to found the Abdul Kalam Azad Oriental Research Institute, and a still-published Urdu magazine, known as Sabras.
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