Shamsur Rahman Farooqi is one of the most important Urdu literary-critic, researcher, author, and poet and fiction writers of modern times. The short stories he has written are very important in terms of history and culture. Shamsur Rahman Farooqi has depicted the ancient civilization and culture of the subcontinent in his short stories. His fictions are not mere stories but there is a great historical consciousness in his fictions. When they make the Mughal era the subject in their fictions, all the features of the civilization and culture of this era come to the fore. In his stories, he has mentioned all the things related to the era of Mir and Ghalib, customs, clothes, ornaments, beliefs and ideas, superstitions, lifestyle, civilization and culture with all the details. What’s up in this article, this feature of Shamsur Rahman Farooqi's fictions has been made the topic. The article deals with this very important angle of short stories written by Shams Ur Rehman Farooqi. Shamsur Rahman Farooqui's fictions have been analyzed in detail regarding the reflection of civilization and culture in his short stories.

1.                   Sibat e Hassan, Pakistan Mein Tehzeeb ka Irteqa (Karachi: Maktaba Daniyal, 1989), 3.

2.                  Feroze Urdu Encyclopedia, Lahore: Feroze Sons (Private) Limited, 2014, 519.

3.                   Shams ur Rahman Farooqi, Sawar aur Dusrey Afsaany (Karachi: Educational Printing Press, 2001), 12.

4.                   Ibid, 265.

5.                   Ibid, 408.

6.                   Ibid, 140.

7.                   Ibid, 96.

8.                   Ibid, 246.

9.                   Ibid, 395.