Mehdi Afadi

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Life1868–1921

Mahdi Hasan, known as Mehdi Afadi, was born in Gorakhpur and served in the government of Hyderabad. He was a friend and correspondent of the leading writers of his day and is remembered as one of the finest Urdu essayists of the early twentieth century.

His essays, collected in Ifadat-e-Mehdi, combine wide reading in Urdu, Persian and English with a graceful, witty prose style, and he wrote some of the first Urdu criticism to apply Western ideas to the classical tradition.

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Ifadat-e-Mehdi (Essays of Mehdi Afadi)

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Mehdi Afadi

All thirteen essays of Mehdi Afadi (died 1921) given on Urdu Wikisource: one of the most admired stylists of early twentieth-century Urdu prose. Here is "The Five Elements of Urdu Literature", the famous essay that named Sir Syed, Azad, Nazir Ahmad, Hali and Shibli as the five makers of modern Urdu prose, and its sad sequel, "The Last Breath of Urdu Literature"; a cluster of essays on Shibli Nomani, his histories, his theology, his history of Persian poetry and his journal Al-Nadwa; "The Rivalry of Hali and Shibli", a sly study of the two great friends and critics; fierce replies to critics of Shibli and of Mehdi's own writing; a tribute to the fine books of the Nami Press; an open letter defending Sayyid Ali Bilgrami's translation Tamaddun-e-Arab; a romantic portrait of the ideal woman; and a survey of Greek ideas of beauty and love. Complete Urdu text of each essay with a facing paragraph-by-paragraph English translation, introduction and glossary. Printed editions of Ifadat-e-Mehdi may contain further pieces not on Wikisource. Cite as: Mehdi Afadi, Ifadat-e-Mehdi, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/ifadat-e-mehdi. The first two chapters are free to read.

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