Sahibzada Habib-ur-Rahman Qalandar Momand (September 1, 1930 - February 4, 2003) was a well-known

Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...

poet, short story writer, journalist and linguist.

Books

Short stories

*''Gajre''

Poetry

*''Sabāʼūn'' *''Raṇāʼī''

Essays

*''Daryāb : Puṣhto lughat'', Pushto dictionary *''Paṭah khazānah fī al-mīzān'', critical study of '' Paṭah khazānah'', a Pushto work containing biographies of early Pushto poets, by Muḥammad Hotak, 18thrks of 20th century Pushto poets from Pakistan, includes their brief biographical sketches, collected articles previously published in Pushto magazines from 1950 to 2001 *''Da Khayr al-Bayān tanqīdī mut̤ālaʻah'', critical study of '' Khayr al-Bayān'', a Pushto work on Islamic precepts by Pīr Roṣhān Bāyazīd Anṣārī, fl. 1526-1572 *''Da Arist̤ū Naẓmīyāt tashrīḥ aw tabṣirah'', commentary on

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ph ...

's '' Poetics'' *''Tanqīd : talkhīṣ aw tanqiyyah'', on literary criticism

References

External links

Khyber Watch Article
1930 births 2003 deaths Pashtun people Pashtun writers Pashto-language poets Pashto-language writers Linguists from Pakistan Communist Party of Pakistan politicians 20th-century linguists {{pakistan-linguist-stub