Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee

Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee
Born (1917-12-15)15 December 1917
Delhi, British India
Died 11 October 2005(2005-10-11) (aged 87)
Mississauga, Canada
Occupation Urdu poet, writer, lexicographer
Genre Ghazal
Notable awards Tamgha-e-Quaid-i-Azam, Sitara-e-Imtiaz
Spouse Begum Salma Haqqee

Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee (Urdu: شان الحق حقی‎), Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Tamgha-e-Quaid-i-Azam, was a notable Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer of Pakistan.

Born in Delhi, Haqqee acquired his BA from Aligarh Muslim University. He obtained a Master's in English literature from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. His father, Ehtashamuddin Haqqee, wrote short stories, a study of Hafez, Tarjuman-ul-Ghaib, a translation of Diwan-i-Hafiz in verse and compiled a dictionary.

Haqqee recited his first ghazal at an annual poetic gathering of St. Stephen's College.

Contribution to Urdu

Haqqee published two anthologies of poems, Tar-i-Pairahan (1957) and Harf-i-Dilras (1979). He also published ghazals under the title, Dil ki Zaban.

His other publications include:

His autobiography was serialized in the Urdu journal Afkaar. He also translated Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Chanakya Kautilya's Arthashastra.

He also wrote other genres of poetry, such as Peheylian, Kehmukarnian, and Qitat-i-Tareekhi.

As a lexicographer

In addition to his regular professional duties, he remained associated with the Urdu Dictionary Board for 17 years from 1958 to 1975, compiling a 22-volume dictionary. He compiled two other dictionaries. Farhang-e-Talaffuz is a pronouncing dictionary of Urdu published by the National Language Authority. The Oxford English-Urdu Dictionary is a translation of the eighth and ninth editions of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

In addition to libraries in South Asia, some of Haqqee's books are found in the Library of Congress and the University of Toronto Library.

Death

He died from complications of lung cancer in Mississauga, Canada while under his daughter's care on 11 October 2005. He was 87. Haqqee left five sons and one daughter. Like his wife, teacher Salma Haqqee, who died exactly two years earlier, he was buried in Mississauga, Canada.

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