Christopher Shackle is a retired Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia in the University of London

University of London

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, Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, and also Professor, Department of Study of Religions at that university. He is furthermore the head of the Urdu

Urdu

Urdu 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...

 department at the School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

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 of London

London

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, Project Leader at AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures, and a member of the Centre of South Asian Studies.
He is also an expert of Siraiki language.Mehr Abdul Haq

Mehr Abdul Haq

Mehr Abdul Haq was a linguist from Pakistan. He was born in Layyah, Pakistan in 1915. After completing his education he joined education department where he worked on different posts. He retired in 1970. He got his PhD degree from Punjab University Lahore in “Multani Zaban ka Urdu se taaluq”. He...

  taught him Siraiki.He wrote several books on Siraiki language 'literature and Khwaja Ghulam Farid

He has written many books, and published over 19 book chapters and journal articles in the field or Urdu literature. He served as Head of Department from 1983 to 1987 and as Pro-Director of SOAS from 1997 until 2003

Awards

• Fellow of the British Academy in 1990.
• 2004 Award of the Royal Asiatic Society
• Pakistan's highest award for the arts, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz
  Sitara-i-Imtiaz
  The Sitara-i-Imtiaz , is the third highest honour and civilian award in the State of Pakistan. It recognizes the individuals who made an "especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of Pakistan, world peace, cultural or other significant public endeavors"...
  
  , in 2005

Books written

• Teach yourself Punjabi
• The Siraiki language of central Pakistan- A Reference Grammar
• From Wuch to Southern Lahnda: a century of Siraiki studies in English
• (with A Mandair) Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures, 214pp. Routledge (UK & US). ISBN 0415266041. 2005.
• Siraiki Marsiya, 94pp. Bazme Saqafat (Pakistan). ISBN none. 2003.
• (with D J Matthews, S Husain) Urdu Literature, 288pp. Alhamra (Pakistan). ISBN 9695161197.2003. (
• (with J Majeed) Hali's Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam, 262pp. Oxford University Press (Delhi). ISBN 0-19-564091-8. 1997.

• Edited books: 2003. SOAS Since the Sixties, 185pp. SOAS (UK). ISBN 0728603535.
• Teachings of Khawaja Farid (Translation of Isharat-i-Faridi)1978:Bazm-i-Saqafat-Multan
• Fifty poems of Khawaja Farid:Translation in English verse of poems of Khawaja Farid:published 1973:Bazm-i-Saqafat-Multan Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  

External links

• SOAS Staff page