Muniruddin Ahmed

Born 1934 in Rawalpindi, British India/Pakistan, resides in Germany since 1960, has been research scholar at the German Orient Institute, Hamburg and taught at the University of Hamburg. He has published about 20 books, among them are five collections of short stories in Urdu and seven volumes of translations from German Literature. His autobiography was published in 2006 by "Qausain", Lahore. See entry in Wikipedia for a comprehensive biodata. Muniruddin Ahmed(Urdu: منیر الدین احمد) (born 1934 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani writer. He is a specialist in the history and politics of the Muslim world with emphasis on the South Asia. He studied Arabic and Political Science at the University of Panjab (Lahore) and the University of Hamburg (Germany). He was associated with Deutsches Orient-Institut, Hamburg, as research scholar and taught at the University of Hamburg. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Urdu Literature in Diaspora. His work encompasses five volumes of short stories and seven books of translations from German Literature into Urdu and one volume from the literature of different Pakistani languages into German. His autobiography Dahlte Saayee has been serialized in the literary journal Savera, Lahore and was published in book form in October 2006. His correspondence with Sayyid Ahmad Sa'id Hamdani was published from Delhi in 1999. Lately another book of his correspondence with Agha Babur is due to appear in Pakistan. He has also published a biography of his grand father Maulavi Muhammad Fazal Khan Changawi, who happend to be one of the foremost Indian Muslim scholars of the earlier twentieth century. He publishes in German, English and Urdu. He writes his name as "Munir D. Ahmed" and "Munir-ud-Din Ahmed" for publications in European languages.