Mumtaz Mufti
Mumtaz Mufti ممتاز مفتی | |
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| Born | 11 September 1905 Batala, Punjab, British India |
| Died | 27 October 1995 (aged 90) Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Genre | Fiction writer |
| Subject | Literature, philosophy, psychology, socialism |
| Notable works | Ali Pur Ka Aeeli, Alakh Nagri, Labbaik, Un Kahi, Talash, Muftianey |
| Notable awards | Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 1986 Munshi Premchand Award, 1989 |
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Mumtaz Husain, better known as Mumtaz Mufti (Urdu: ممتاز مفتی; September 11, 1905 – October 27, 1995), was a writer from Pakistan.
Initially a religious skeptic influenced by authors like Freud, Havelock Ellis, Alfred Adler and Fyodor Dostoevsky, he would eventually come back to Islam through Sufism.
Critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar described his writing style as psychological realist.