Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: اشتیاق حسين قریشی ‎) (20 November 1903 – 22 January 1981) popularly known as I.H. Qureshi), SP, HI, was a Pakistani historian, scholar, writer, and a professor of political history, first at the University of the Punjab and then at the Karachi University.[1][2] Apart from his work as an academic historian he was also a well-known playwright.[3]