THE OUTSTANDING PHILOLOGIST OF INDIA, S. R. FARUQI

Abstract

One of the primary conditions of our equal participation in the world scholarly community, first of all in the countries of the regions under study, is the awareness of our foreign colleagues and their works and academic activities. The article tells about one of the most reputed Indian philologists of our time, the recently deceased S. R. Farooqi. In the Urdu-speaking world he is known as an encyclopedist who made a huge contribution to the study of the Urdu language, literature and the culture associated with this language, and changed to a certain extent the direction of the development of literary criticism in Urdu. S. R. Farooqi was also a talented poet and prose writer. His works as well as poems, stories and novels have received prestigious awards and have been translated into foreign languages.S. R. Farooqi was an unique admirer of Russian philology among Indian and Pakistani scholars; he knew practically all the works of our famous academics that are available in English and Urdu translations. The names of Russian authors and quotations from their works can be seen on the pages of his publications. There is a translation of a passage from a well-known monograph by S. R. Faruqi at the end of the article, in which the Indian scholar shares his opinion on the book by our colleague, Prof. N. I. Prigarina about the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib translated into Urdu.