Mufti Mudasir

Mufti Mudasir Farooqi is a faculty in the Department of English, University of Kashmir. Proficient in English, Kashmiri, Urdu, Persian and Arabic, he has made academic contributions to several areas such as literary theory and criticism, postmodern drama, Kashmir history and literature, Indo-Persian literature and Islamic studies. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the research programme ‘Future Philology: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship’ at Freie University of Berlin in 2012-13.
His English translation of Kashmir’s foremost Persian poet Tahir Ghani Kashmiri The Captured Gazelle: The Poems of Ghani Kashmiri was published as a Penguin Classic in 2013 while an annotated Urdu translation of Ghani’s complete works titled Aatash-e Toor: Deewan-e Ghani Kashmiri has come out in 2022.