Muhammad Umar Memon
Biographic Data
| ID | 583634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammad Umar Memon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammad Umar |
| FAMILY NAME | Memon |
| SIGNATURE | MEMON M U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Seventh Door and Other Stories
Pakistani Urdu Creative Writing on National Disintegration
In 1947, when Pakistan was created, scarcely any attention was paid to resolving the problems inherent in a culturally plural society. Existing institutions proved inflexible and new ones did not evolve to respond to the aspirations of the Bengali people. As a result, Pakistan was dismembered within twenty-four years of its birth. Contrary to expectations, Pakistan's national disintegration failed to generate analysis or debate among intellectual…
Reclamation of Memory, Fall, and the Death of the Creative Self
Marcel Proust ends the first book Du côte de chez Swann of his mammoth novel A la recherche du temps perdu with this sentence: “Le souvenir d'une certaine image n'est que le regret d'un certain instant; et les maisons, les routes, les avenues, sont fugitives, hélas, comme les années.” It would seem that a significant part of the early fiction of IntiIār Husain, a Shī'ite Muslim and by far the most talented Urdu writer in Pakistan toäay, is devote…
Studies in Urdu Ġazel and Prose Fiction
Partition Literature
In an interview given in July 1974, Intiz̤ār Ḥusain, one of the most perceptive creative writers of Pakistan, had this to say about the experience of migration that was the direct outcome of the Partition of India in 1947:A decade ago when I was talking about the experience of migration and the articles I wrote concerning it, I was in a state of great hope and optimism. It was then my feeling that in the process of the Partition we had sudenly, a…
Ibn Taimiya's Struggle Against Popular Religion
Partition Literature
In an interview given in July 1974, Intiz̤ār Ḥusain, one of the most perceptive creative writers of Pakistan, had this to say about the experience of migration that was the direct outcome of the Partition of India in 1947:A decade ago when I was talking about the experience of migration and the articles I wrote concerning it, I was in a state of great hope and optimism. It was then my feeling that in the process of the Partition we had sudenly, a…
Pakistani Urdu Creative Writing on National Disintegration
In 1947, when Pakistan was created, scarcely any attention was paid to resolving the problems inherent in a culturally plural society. Existing institutions proved inflexible and new ones did not evolve to respond to the aspirations of the Bengali people. As a result, Pakistan was dismembered within twenty-four years of its birth. Contrary to expectations, Pakistan's national disintegration failed to generate analysis or debate among intellectual…
Reclamation of Memory, Fall, and the Death of the Creative Self
Marcel Proust ends the first book Du côte de chez Swann of his mammoth novel A la recherche du temps perdu with this sentence: “Le souvenir d'une certaine image n'est que le regret d'un certain instant; et les maisons, les routes, les avenues, sont fugitives, hélas, comme les années.” It would seem that a significant part of the early fiction of IntiIār Husain, a Shī'ite Muslim and by far the most talented Urdu writer in Pakistan toäay, is devote…
Ibn Taimiya's Struggle Against Popular Religion
Partition Literature
In an interview given in July 1974, Intiz̤ār Ḥusain, one of the most perceptive creative writers of Pakistan, had this to say about the experience of migration that was the direct outcome of the Partition of India in 1947:A decade ago when I was talking about the experience of migration and the articles I wrote concerning it, I was in a state of great hope and optimism. It was then my feeling that in the process of the Partition we had sudenly, a…
Reclamation of Memory, Fall, and the Death of the Creative Self
Marcel Proust ends the first book Du côte de chez Swann of his mammoth novel A la recherche du temps perdu with this sentence: “Le souvenir d'une certaine image n'est que le regret d'un certain instant; et les maisons, les routes, les avenues, sont fugitives, hélas, comme les années.” It would seem that a significant part of the early fiction of IntiIār Husain, a Shī'ite Muslim and by far the most talented Urdu writer in Pakistan toäay, is devote…
Studies in Urdu Ġazel and Prose Fiction
Pakistani Urdu Creative Writing on National Disintegration
In 1947, when Pakistan was created, scarcely any attention was paid to resolving the problems inherent in a culturally plural society. Existing institutions proved inflexible and new ones did not evolve to respond to the aspirations of the Bengali people. As a result, Pakistan was dismembered within twenty-four years of its birth. Contrary to expectations, Pakistan's national disintegration failed to generate analysis or debate among intellectual…
The Seventh Door and Other Stories
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Urdu (3 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works)