Hifz-ur-Rehman

Hifz-ur-Rehman (died 1970) was a Pakistani archaeologist, historian and linguist.

Biography

Hifz-ur-Rehman was the son of Abdul Aziz, managing proprietor of the newspaper Paisa Akhbaar, and nephew of Mahboob Alam, who was its editor. He passed the middle standard examination from Diyal Singh College and secured a diploma in Arts from the Mayo School of Arts (now the National College of Arts (NCA). Artist and intellectual Abdul Rehman Chughtai was one of his tutors. Rehman died on December 31, 1970. Forty years later, on August 14, 2010, President Asif Ali Zardari posthumously honoured him with the "Sitara-i-Imtiaz" (The Star of Excellence) for his services in the fields of archaeology, history and linguistic research.[1] He had three daughters, who had all died by the year 2008.

He donated musical instruments, ancient jewellery, textiles, pottery and an armory, relics from the Graeco-Bactrian times, as well as Graeco-Buddhist sculptures, and Mughal and Pahari paintings to the Lahore Museum in 1964. He was a curator at many museums of the subcontinent and an expert on the Gormukhai and Sanskrit languages. He also compiled the first Urdu Encyclopedia of 11 volumes.

Service and achievements

Hifz-ur-Rehman donated 1,500 antiquities to the Lahore Museum, including three Quranic manuscripts written by Imam Hussain, decrees, Chinese porcelain, coins, glass objects, miniatures, ivory objects and specimens of calligraphy and Islamic Arts.[1]

His other notable achievement was the compilation of an Urdu Encyclopedia (Hifz-ul-uloom), which comprises 250 volumes. The composition and compilation of this venture involved extraordinary labour and effort, in addition to expense.

References

  1. 1 2 Staff Report. "Maulana Hifzur Rehman awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz". PakistanToday, 23 Mar 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2012.

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