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Ismail Meeruthi

Ismail Meeruthi (1844-1917) received a traditional education at home in India and learned Persian. He worked for the Department of Education and published books on Urdu grammar and an Urdu dictionary. Meeruthi was also working on a biography of Amir Khusro but died before completing it. Dr. Rauf Parekh teaches at the University of Karachi's Urdu department and has contributed as a literary critic and editor. He compiled the first slang Urdu dictionary.

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Ismail Meeruthi

Ismail Meeruthi (1844-1917) received a traditional education at home in India and learned Persian. He worked for the Department of Education and published books on Urdu grammar and an Urdu dictionary. Meeruthi was also working on a biography of Amir Khusro but died before completing it. Dr. Rauf Parekh teaches at the University of Karachi's Urdu department and has contributed as a literary critic and editor. He compiled the first slang Urdu dictionary.

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Ismail Meeruthi (12 November 1844 - 1 November 1917) received

his primary and traditional education at home. He learnt Persian


from Mirza Rahim Baig, a polemicist; Mirza Ghalib had to contend
with in his lexicographical disputes. In his declining years Ismail
Meeruthi himself edited an Urdu dictionary, which alas is yet to be
printed. On 10 July 1860 he joined the Department of Education. In
1892 Ismail Meeruthi published a book on Urdu grammar. Ismail
Meeruthi was engaged in writing a biography of Amir Khusro which
he left unfinished in 1917.
Dr Rauf Parekh has an MA and PhD from the University of Karachi.
He is a critic of Urdu literature and regularly contributes to a leading
daily, DawnKarachi. He is a former Chief Editor of Urdu Dictionary
Board. Now he is teaching at the Department of Urdu, University of
Karachi. He is the compiler of the first slang Urdu dictionary.

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