'Farooqi thoughtfully examines the life and work of Muhammad Hasan Askari, arguably the foremost critic in the world of mid-twentieth century Urdu letters. Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages, Columbia University It deserves to be on the bookshelf of anyone who is interested in Urdu literary history or the postcolonial intellectual history of South Asia.' - Frances W. Her thoughtful work is full of new information about Askari and his literary and political worlds, and also suggests some fruitful directions for further study. Farooqi sets out to 'enter into Askari's complicated life' so that she can 'better understand his sensibility.' In this project she succeeds excellently.
'The strikingly original literary theorist Muhammad Hasan Askari, who began as an avant-garde Europhile and ended as a strictly Islamic Sufi, occupies a particularly contentious place in Urdu literary culture, and remains almost entirely unknown outside it.
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