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Mufti Mudasir Farooqi is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Kashmir, Srinagar with a teaching experience of around 20 years at the Masters’ level. Well-versed in a number of languages such as Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Kashmiri, he has a rare distinction of bringing richness and variety to the teaching of English due to his linguistic versatility. Professor Mudasir’s varied interests have led him to contribute in several areas like literary theory and criticism, postmodern studies, Persian and Kashmiri literatures, Kashmir history and Islamic studies. He has translated poetry from Kashmiri, Urdu, Persian and Arabic and also taught literatures of these languages in translation. Due to this distinction he earned a postdoctoral fellowship in the programme ‘Zukuntsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Scholarship’ from Freie University, Berlin in the year 2012-13. As a fellow in Berlin, he researched the manuscripts of medieval Kashmir in Persian, Kashmiri and Arabic and produced a work later published in Philological Encounters by BRILL, the Netherlands.
Besides several articles in various International and National journals, he has authored four books, Yusuf’s Fragrance: Poems of Mahmud Gami (Penguin Classics, 2022), Aatash-e Toor: An Annotated Urdu Translation of Deewan-e Ghani (Arshia Publications, 2022), The Captured Gazelle: Poems of Ghani Kashmiri (Penguin Classics, 2013), and Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama: A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). His two books in the Penguin Classics list have been acclaimed for introducing Mahmud Gami (1765-1855), a pre-eminent poet of Kashmiri language, and Tahir Ghani Kashmiri (d. 1669), the great 17th century Persian poet of Kashmir, to a global readership. He has also co-edited (with Nusrat Bazaz) a bilingual anthology of the poetry of Rahman Rahi (1925-2023), the celebrated 20th century Kashmiri poet, titled The Vyeth is Not Asleep: Poems of Rahman Rahi (Department of English, 2023).
Professor Mudasir has also presented papers/given talks/attended conferences in the Universities at Berlin and Leipzig (Germany), Georgetown University, Doha (Qatar), and Al-Mustafa University, Qom (Iran). As a faculty in the Department, Professor Mudasir teaches literary theory and criticism from Plato to the present and Urdu/Persian Literatures in Translation, and also continues to guide research scholars. Since March 2016 he is also holding an additional charge as Co-ordinator, Directorate of Internal Quality Assurance (DIQA), University of Kashmir.
Cell No. 9419379806
email-muftimudasir@yahoo.com
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