Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (30 September 1935 – 25 December 2020) was an Indian poet and an Urdu critic and theorist. He used criticism found in Western literature and added them to Urdu literature.
 He was also editor of his literary magazine "Shabkhoon" and part-time professor at the South Asia Regional Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Faruqi died on 25 December 2020 in Allahabad from Covid-19 at the age of 85.