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Department of Urdu & Iqbaliat, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
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ڈاکٹر خواجہ محمد زکریا کا نظری و فکری ارتقا (مصاحبوں کی روشنی میں)

  • Hafiz Safwan Muhammad/
  • June 30, 2025
The Intellectual and Ideological Evolution of Dr. Khawaja M Zakariya (In the Light of Interviews)
Keywords
Khwaja Zakaria, Interview, Tradition of poetry, Teaching of Urdu to the foreigners, Language policy, Language politics, Implementation of Urdu as state/official language.
Abstract

This article is basing on the book “Dr. Khwaja Muhammad Zakariya: Afkar o Guftar”. It caters scores of interviews of Dr Khawaja Muhammad Zakariya. Starting from a convincing parable of an unstructured telephonic interview which the author himself took over a span of couple of weeks, many an interview hold Dr Khawaja’s talk & reflections on variety of topics including his family & personality, tradition of poetry & poetics, history of Urdu literature, linguistics, linguistic research in Urdu, teaching of Urdu to the foreigners/non-native speakers, language policy, language politics, implementation of Urdu as state/official language, implementation of Punjabi as the provincial language, university & students’ politics, power politics, and the like. As this book contains interviews that were taken in almost half a century, Dr Khawaja’s varying literary thoughts, notions and theories can be well judged through the lens of this very lexis. The author of this article grades the interview taken by Dr Faiza Butt & Rabia Hijab as the most versatile and complete one. In the end the author suggests some additions/corrections that need be taken into account in the next edition of this compilation.

References

Ahmad, Shafiq, and Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, eds. Dr. Khwaja Muhammad Zakariya: Afkar o Guftar. Lahore: Punjab University Press, 2021.

Azurdah, Mirza Muhammad Zaman. Mirza Salamat Ali Dabeer: Hayat aur Karname. Delhi: National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2002.

Hali, Khawaja Altaf Husain. Hayat-e-Javed. Muhaqqaq Edition. Lahore: Urdu Academy Pakistan, 2020.

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Safwan Muhammad, H. (2025). ڈاکٹر خواجہ محمد زکریا کا نظری و فکری ارتقا (مصاحبوں کی روشنی میں). MATAN (متْن) Urdu Research Journal, 6(1), 51–59. https://matan.iub.edu.pk/website/journal/article/6861074655977/page

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[1]Safwan Muhammad, H. 2025. ڈاکٹر خواجہ محمد زکریا کا نظری و فکری ارتقا (مصاحبوں کی روشنی میں). MATAN (متْن) Urdu Research Journal. 6, 1 (June 2025), 51–59.
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