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Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Contributor

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is an author, novelist and translator. His novel Between Clay and Dust was a finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012. His earlier novel The Story of a Widow was longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award. His children's fiction includes the picture book The Cobbler's Holiday Or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes, the novel Tik-Tik, The Master of Time, the collection The Amazing Moustaches of Moochhander the Iron Man and Other Stories and the YA novel Rabbit Rap. He is the author of the critically acclaimed translations of Urdu classics, The Adventures of Amir Hamza, and the first book of a projected 24-volume magical fantasy epic, Hoshruba. He writes a monthly column MICROTALK on the myths and folktales of South Asia

Articles by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

The Great Lord Pabori
By Anonymous
“I am the Great Lord Pabori, who eats the roast of seven lions!”
Translated from Sindhi by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Stork and the She-Stork
By Anonymous
“I was a fool. I will die and you will live. Return to our young now!”
Translated from Sindhi by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Two Sparrows
By Anonymous
The cat said, “If I fetch him from down here, what will you give me?”
Translated from Sindhi by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Folktales of Sindh: An Introduction
By Musharraf Ali Farooqi
It is likely that in the folktales preserved in the Sindhi language, we can find the structures and traces of the earliest stories from the Indus Valley Civilization.
Tilism-e-Hoshruba
By Muhammad Husain Jah
One of the earliest accounts of the magical arts practiced in the Islamic world is found in the fourteenth-century work the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun, acknowledged as the first work on the philosophy…
Translated from Urdu by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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