Muztar Abbasi | |
Birth Name: | Muztar Abbasi |
Birth Place: | Murree, British Raj |
Death Place: | Islamabad, Pakistan |
Occupation: | Scholar |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Citizenship: | Pakistani |
Alma Mater: | Bahawalpur University, Punjab University. |
Period: | 1960-2004 |
Genre: | Prose, poetry, autobiography. |
Subject: | Urdu, Esperanto |
Movement: | Esperanto Association |
Notableworks: | Quran translation in Esperanto, Urdu-Esperanto Dictionary, Seerat-Un-Nabi (SAWW) in Esperanto and 18 published books in Urdu and Esperanto. |
Muztar Abbasi (1931 – 26 February 2004) was a Punjabi Pakistani Muslim scholar and Vice Principal of Fazaia Inter College, Lower Topa, who belonged to the Dhund Abbasi tribe of Murree Hills in the Murree District. He was a pioneer of the Esperanto language in Pakistan and patron in chief of the Pakistan Esperanto Association (PakEsA). He translated the Quran into Esperanto and wrote a biography of Muhammad and several other books in Esperanto and Urdu.[1]