Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Memon retired from the University of Wisconsin after 38 years of service but has remained active as a scholar: besides working on translation of Urdu works into English, he serves on the editorial board of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies and is also an advisor to the Urdu Project. Memon was born in Aligarh, India in 1939. In 1954, his family moved to Karachi, Pakistan where he earned his bachelors and masters degrees.
After his graduation, he taught at Sachal Sarmast College and Sind University.
This move enabled him to earn a masters degree from Harvard University and eventually a doctorate in Islamic Studies from University of California, Los Los Angeles Memon joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970 and retired from there after 38 years of service. At UW he taught Urdu, Islamic Studies as well courses in Arabic and Persian.
While a complete list of his scholarly and creative works can be found on his website, some major works are listed below:
Muhammad Umar Memon. Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Ibn Taymīyah (1976).
Ibn Taimīya"s struggle against popular religion: with an annotated translation of his Kitāb iqtiḍāʾ aṣ-ṣirāṭ al-mustaquīm mukhālafat aṣḥāb al-jaḥīm.
Mouton. Retrieved 30 July 2011. Studies in the Urdu Gazal and Prose Fiction.
Madison: University of Wisconsin press, 1979.
Memon, Muhammad Umar (1998). An epic unwritten. New Delhi. New York: Penguin Books.
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Memon, Muhammad Umar (2005).
The Harper Collins book of Urdu short stories. New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers.