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Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Portrait of translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Contributor

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is an author, novelist and translator. His latest work of fiction is the qissa The Merman and the Book of Power. Farooqi is the founder and series editor of the Library of Urdu Classics.

Articles by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Empty train tracks disappearing into the horizon in a dry landscape
Photo by Robert Linder on Unsplash
The Kettledrum
By Siddique Alam
An Adivasi widow is forced to join her son and daughter-in-law in the city in this excerpt from Siddique Alam's collection The Kettledrum.
Translated from Urdu 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