Mumtaz Mufti

Mumtaz Husain, better known as Mumtaz Mufti (Urdu: ممتاز مفتی; September 11, 1905 – October 27, 1995), was a writer from Pakistan.

Mumtaz Mufti
ممتاز مفتی
Born11 September 1905
Batala, Punjab, British India
Died27 October 1995 (aged 90)
Islamabad, Pakistan
OccupationWriter
NationalityPakistani
GenreFiction writer
SubjectLiterature, philosophy, psychology, socialism
Notable worksAli Pur Ka Aeeli, Alakh Nagri, Labbaik, Un Kahi, Talash, Muftianey
Notable awardsSitara-e-Imtiaz, 1986
Munshi Premchand Award, 1989
Website
www.mumtazmuftee.com

Initially a religious skeptic influenced by authors like Freud, Havelock Ellis, Alfred Adler and Fyodor Dostoevsky, he would eventually come back to Islam through Sufism.

Critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar described his writing style as psychological realist.

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