Qureshi Ghulam Haider Arshad, born in Rabwah, Punjab on September 1, 1953, is a Pakistani Urdu poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and journalist.
Early Life and Education
Haider Qureshi was born in Rabwah, Punjab, Pakistan, in the Chiniot District. He is from a Saraiki-speaking family. Qureshi Ghulam Sarwar’s father was from Khanpur, Rahim Yar Khan. Haider Qureshi began writing verses when he was 18 years old. He began working at a sugar mill after finishing secondary school in 1968, the same year he wrote his first romantic story. Soon after his marriage, he authored his first ghazal. In 1974, he received his Master of Arts (M.A.) in Urdu literature. Haider Qureshi moved to Germany in 1994 and has remained there to this day. He is now a German national with a Pakistani background.
Literary Career
He is the editor of the literary Urdu magazine Jadeed Adab, which began in Khanpur in 1978 and later from Germany. Qureshi’s poetry has been translated into English, Arabic, German, and Turkish. The book Umr-e-Lahasil Ka Haasil, a Kulliyat of poetry and prose, comprises most of his literary work. He is the editor of the literary Urdu magazine Jadeed Adab, which began in Khanpur in 1978 and later from Germany.
Qureshi’s poetry has been translated into English, Arabic, German, and Turkish.
Jadeed Adab
Haider Qureshi founded the Urdu literary magazine Jadeed Adab in Germany, and he is still its editor-in-chief. It is distributed in print and online in Germany, Pakistan, and India. It was first launched from Khanpur, Pakistan, in 1978. In Pakistan, Farhat Nawaz was co-editor of Jadeed Adab Khanpur.
Haider Qureshi founded Jadeed Adab in Khanpur, Pakistan, in 1978 at the expense of his wife Mubarika Haider’s jewellery, which he sold one by one until all were sold and the magazine discontinued publication. After a few years, the magazine was restarted from Germany.
Jadeed Adab was the only regularly published Urdu literary journal in print and online until the last issue in 2012.
Bibliography
Poetry
- Sulagtay Khawab (1991)
- Umre Gurezan (1994)
- Mohabbat kay Phool (1996)
- Dua E Dil (1997)
- Ghazlain, Nazmain (1998)
- Qafas Kay Andar (2013)
- Dard Sumandar (2014)
- Zindagi (2014)
Prose
- Roshani ki Basharat
- Afsaane (1999)
- Atmi Jang (1996)
- Main Intezaar karta hoon (1999)
- Meri Mohabbatein (1996–1998)
- Soo-e-Hejaaz (2000–2004)
- Khatti Meethi Yaadein
- Faaslay Qurbaten
- Abba Ji aur Ammi Ji
- Hayat e Mubarika Haider
- Mubarika Mahal
- Beemari ka Roohani Tajrabah
- Research and critics books
- Dr. Wazir Agha ahad saaz shakhsiyat (1995)
- Hasil e Mutalea
- Tassuraat
- Mazameen aur Tabsaray
- Dr. Gopichand Narang aur Ma baad Jadeediat
- Dr. Satyapal Anand ki Boodni, NaBoodni
- Hamara Adabi Manzar Namah
- Mazameen o Mabahes
- Urdu mein Mahiya Nigari (1999)
- Urdu Mahiay ki Tehreek
- Urdu Mahiye ke Baani Himmat Rai Sharma
- Mahiay ke Mabahes
- Urdu Mahiya
- Urdu Mahiya Tehqeeq o Tanqeed
University Research Thesis on the Literary Work of Haider Qureshi
- PHD Topic “Haider Qureshi Shakhsiat aur Adabi Jahten” (Haider Qureshi Personality & literary facets) year 2013, Research Scholar Dr. Abdul Rab Ustaad, Gulbarga University Gulbarga, India.
- M.Phil. Topic “Haider Qureshi ki Adabi Khidmaat.(Literary contribution of Haider Qureshi) year 2014, Researcher Aamir Sohail, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan.
- M. Phil Topic “Haider Qureshi Hayat o Khidmaat” (Haider Qureshi Life & contribution to literature) year 2013, Researcher Anjum Aara, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.
- M.Phil. Topic “Haider Qureshi bahesiat Mohaqqeq aur Naqqad” (Haider Qureshi as a Researcher and a Critic) year 2018, Researcher Sughra Begum, Federal Urdu University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
- M.Phil. Topic “Haider Qureshi ki Shairi ka Mutalea” (A study of Haider Qureshi’s poetry) year 2014, Researcher Hriday Bhano Pratap, JawaharLal Nehru University Delhi, India.
- M.Phil. Topic “Haider Qureshi ki Afsana Nigari ka Mutalea” (A study of Haider Qureshi’s short stories) year 2014, Researcher Razeena Khan, JawaharLal Nehru University Delhi, India.
- M.A. Topic “Sherul mehjer inda Haider Qureshi… Ma-al Tarjuma” Arabic, (Urdu poetry in other countries in the light of Haider Qureshi’s poetry) year 2015, Researcher Ahmad Abdurba Abbas, Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
- M.A. Topic “Haider Qureshi Shakhsiat aur Fan” (Haider Qureshi Personality & Literary Work) year 2002, Researcher Munazzah Yasmeen, Islamia University BahawalPur, Pakistan.
- M.Phil. Topic “Majalla Jadeed Adab ki Adabi Khidmat” (The contribution of “Jadeed Adab” to literature) year 2018, Researcher Kanwal Tabassum, Federal Urdu University, Islamabad.Pakistan.
- M.A. Topic “Jadeed Adab men shaey honay walay Mabahes”, (Literary debates published in ” Jadeed Adab “) year 2009, Researcher Shazia Humera, Islamia University BahawalPur, Pakistan.
- M.Phil. Topic “Risala Jadeed Adab ki Adabi Khidmat. Tehqeeqi o Tanqeedi Mutala” (A critical review to evaluate literary contribution of “Jadeed Adab”) year 2018, Researcher Mohamad Shoaib, Hazara University Mansehra, Pakistan.