Karrar Hussain

Karrar Hussain (1911–1999) was a Pakistani educationist, writer and literary critic. In his student days in British India he was affiliated with the Khaksar movement, with which he later parted ways due to a difference of opinion.[1] In 1948 he migrated to Pakistan, where he continued as a lecturer in English at several colleges and was appointed as the first vice-chancellor of the University of Balochistan in 1976.[2]

Among his many writings is a biographical treatise about the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib commissioned by the Idara Yadgaar-e-Gahlib titled "Ghalib: Sab Achcha Kahein Jissay".[3]

Karrar was also a scholar of Islam, though he advocated that secularism provided the best environment for an Islamic society.[4]

After Karrar's death in 1999, an annual Professor Karrar Husain Memorial Lecture has been held in Pakistan, at which several prominent speakers have spoken, including sociologist Hamza Alavi.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Half Sufi, half communist". The Express Tribune. 7 November 2010.
  2. ↑ "Obituaries". Iqbal Review. Iqbal Academy Pakistan. 2. April 2000.
  3. ↑ Shafique, Khurram Ali (25–31 December 1997). "Forgotten Accounts". Dawn (newspaper) The Review.
  4. ↑ Ahmed, Khaled (21 November 2010). "Why do we hate secularism?". The News International Dialogue.
  5. ↑ "'Fundamentalist ideology played no part in Pakistan's origin'". Daily Times (Pakistan). 3 November 2002.
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