Born | Kako, Bihar | 2 June 1936
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Died | 15 July 2012 Patna, Bihar | (aged 76)
Pen name | Ashrafi, Wahab |
Occupation | Critic |
Genre | Criticism |
Subject | Urdu literature |
Dr. Syed Abdul Wahab Ashrafi ( Urdu/ Persian/ Arabic: سید عبدالوہاب اشرفی; Hindi: वहाब अशरफी) (2 June 1936 – 15 July 2012) [1] was an Indian literary critic and an eminent personality in the world of Urdu literature. [2] [3] [4] He belonged to the family of the Sufi saint Sultan Syed Makhdoom Ashraf Jahangir Semnani
Wahab Ashrafi spent his early life in Kako village in Jehanabad district, Bihar. [2]
Wahab Ashrafi received Ph.D. (Urdu), MA in Urdu (Gold Medalist), M.A in Persian (Gold Medalist), M.A (English), LLB. [6]
He is an ex-Professor and Head-of-Department of the Dept of Urdu at Ranchi University. He is also an Ex-Professor in Department of Linguistic at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
He is ex-chairman, Bihar University Service Commission and ex-chairman, Bihar Intermediate Council, Patna. Vice–President of the progressive writer association, World.
Wahab Ashrafi wrote more than three dozen books [10] some of which have been mentioned below
Many of his books and works have been translated into other languages.
He was the editor of a Urdu literary magazine Mobahisa.