Maulvi Abdul Haq

مولوی عبد الحق

Maulvi Abdul Haq in the original Urdu with a facing English translation. The first two chapters of each work are free with ads; Members and Patrons can read the full work without ads. Works can also be read in Roman Urdu and Hindi script.

Life1870–1961

Maulvi Abdul Haq was born near Meerut, studied at Aligarh, and gave his life to the Urdu language. As secretary of the Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu from 1912 he built it into the leading body for Urdu scholarship, and he came to be called Baba-e-Urdu, the Father of Urdu.

He compiled a great English–Urdu dictionary, edited and published early Dakhni texts, and wrote essays and memoirs such as Chand Ham Asr. After 1947 he moved to Karachi, where he worked for Urdu College until his death.

Works by Maulvi Abdul Haq

Mazmoon

First two chapters free

Abdul Haq ke Mazameen (Essays and Addresses of Maulvi Abdul Haq)

عبد الحق کے مضامین

Maulvi Abdul Haq

Part of the complete work; completion in progress. All sixteen essays and addresses by Maulvi Abdul Haq (1870-1961), the "Baba-e-Urdu", Secretary of the Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu, that are found on Urdu Wikisource. Written mostly between 1934 and 1941, when the Hindi-Urdu question had grown bitter, they ask what "Hindustani" really means, defend Urdu as a mixed language made by Hindus and Muslims together, answer Gandhi and the editor of Vishal Bharat, trace the history of Urdu from Fort William College and Delhi College to the Osmania University, and call its champions to less talk and more work, in addresses given at Aligarh, Allahabad, Baroda, Karachi, Lahore, Nagpur and Patna. With his celebrated preface to his selection from Mir, a short piece on the good book, and the address he wrote for the first meeting of the Progressive Writers at Lucknow. Complete Urdu text of each piece with a facing paragraph-by-paragraph English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Maulvi Abdul Haq, Abdul Haq ke Mazameen, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/abdul-haq-ke-mazameen. The first two chapters are free to read.

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