What is Imtiaz Ali 'Arshi'?
'''Imtiaz Ali''' ''Arshi'' (8 December 1904 – 25 February 1981) was an Indian researcher and [[Academia|scholar]]. He is best known for his works for [[Mirza Ghalib]]. He wrote Ghalib, ''Maktiba-e-Ghalib'' (1937), ''Intikhab-e-Ghalib'' (1943). He also created his own version of Ghalib's ''[[Diwan (poetry)|Diwan]]'' called ''Nuskha-e-Arshi'' published in 1958. Arshi the winner of the 1961 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for the ''Diwan''.<ref>{{cite news|author=Rauf Parekh|date=February 23, 2015|title=Literary Notes: Imtiaz Ali Khan Arshi — a remarkable researcher|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1165298|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306101425/http://www.dawn.com/news/1165298|archive-date=2019-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Verma|series=|quote=|url-status=|archive-date=|archive-url=|pages=1055|doi=|oclc=|isbn=|id=|location=|volume=2|publisher=9788126011940|first=Balraj|year=1988|edition=|language=|access-date=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC|title=Diwan-e-Ghalib|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature|editor-first=Amaresh|editor-last=Datta|author-link=}} </ref> ''Nuskha-Arshi'' is [[wikipedia:Citing sources|cited]] by Urdu scholar, [[Gopi Chand Narang]]. He tried to do the most complete early attempt to publish Ghalib's ghazals in a [[Chronology|chronological]] manner. It allows for a study of the evolution in the poet's themes and techniques. According to Narang, Arshi's ''Diwan'' was the main source for the study of Ghalib's work until a more complete and chronologically correct. ''Diwan'-e-Raza'' was published by Kalidas Gupta Riza in 1995.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6b89DwAAQBAJ&q=Arshi|title=Ghalib: Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind|author=Gopi Chand Narang|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0-19-909151-5}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}}{{Biography-stub}} [[Category:1905 births]] [[Category:1981 deaths]] [[Category:Indian academics]] {{Authority control}}