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C. M. Naim is an
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scholar of
UrduUrdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
language and literature. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.
Naim is the founding editor of both
Annual of Urdu Studies and
Mahfil (now
Journal of South Asian Literature), as well as the author of the definitive textbook for Urdu pedagogy in English.
Biography
Naim was born in Barabanki, India, and educated at
LucknowLucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
University, Deccan College,
PoonaPune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1961, he joined the faculty of the
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the
University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, from which he retired in 2001.
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