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Maqbool Hasan Khan (1 December 1938 – 30 March 2018) was an Indian literary critic proficient in both English and Urdu, and a professor at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). He was celebrated for his ability to connect Shakespearean scholarship with the Urdu literary tradition. Born in Malihabad, near Lucknow—a town renowned for its mango orchards and rich Urdu poetry—he was the sole son among five sisters of orchard owner Mahmood Hasan Khan and Razia Begum, a Qur’an teacher who established a girls’ school.

After completing his early education at Mahatma Gandhi High School, he obtained an MA in English from Lucknow University in 1959, followed by a second MA in Shakespeare studies from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in 1974, supported by a British Council scholarship. He commenced his teaching career at Government College, Kota, in 1961, before joining AMU in 1963, where he remained until his retirement in 1998.

Despite being described as shy and reclusive outside the classroom—characterized by colleagues as “modest and almost obscure”—Khan emerged as a charismatic and articulate lecturer, known for his refined sense of humor and remarkable ability to inspire students. He served as the editor of the Aligarh Journal of English Studies, with a focus on Shakespeare, and produced annotated editions of Hamlet and The Tempest for Orient Longman Drama Classics. His contributions to English literature included a book on Edward Dowden and essays on A.C. Bradley and Walter Raleigh, while he engaged deeply with critics such as Coleridge, Granville-Barker, and G. Wilson Knight. In Urdu, his extensive study of novelist Qurratulain Hyder received significant acclaim, and his collection Tezab is available on Rekhta, ensuring his legacy within South Asian literature.

Khan married Ayesha Hussain in 1961; following her passing in 1971, he single-handedly raised their four children—Ayaz, Tamkin, Tazeen, and Taskeen—before marrying geography teacher Afsar Bano in 1981. He is survived by his second wife, children, and nine grandchildren. He passed away at the age of 79, leaving behind a subtle yet profound impact on literature and pedagogy across two languages.

References
Khan, M. H. (mid-1980s). Edward Dowden. [Place of publication unknown]: Publisher unknown. (As cited in obituary detailing Khan’s Shakespeare criticism works.)
Khan, M. H. (n.d.). Sir Walter Raleigh’s Shakespearian Criticism. The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, [volume/issue unknown], [pages unknown]. Aligarh Muslim University, Department of English.
Khan, M. H. (n.d.). [Essays on A.C. Bradley’s and Walter Raleigh’s Shakespeare criticism, with asides on Coleridge, Granville-Barker, E.E. Stoll, L.C. Knights, and G. Wilson Knight]. The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, [volume/issue unknown], [pages unknown]. Aligarh Muslim University, Department of English. (As cited in scholarly overview of AMU’s Shakespeare sub-school.)
Khan, M. H. (Ed.). (n.d.). Hamlet [Annotated edition with introduction]. Orient Longman Drama Classics.
Khan, M. H. (Ed.). (n.d.). The Tempest [Annotated edition with introduction]. Orient Longman Drama Classics.
Khan, M. H. (n.d.). [Long article on Qurratulain Hyder]. [Urdu literary journal or publication, unknown]. (Critically acclaimed essay on the novelist’s narrative techniques; as cited in biographical sources.)
Khan, M. H. (n.d.). Tezab [Collection of short stories/essays]. Rekhta E-Book. Available at: https://www.rekhta.org/authors/maqbool-hasan-khan/ebooks
[Anonymous]. (2018, April 13). Maqbool Hasan Khan obituary. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/13/maqbool-hasan-khan-obituary
Hasan, M. (2016, April 22). Aligarh and its Shakespeare wallahs. The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/aligarh-and-its-shakespeare-wallahs/article8505088.ece
The Aligarh Journal of English Studies [Various volumes indexing contributions by Maqbool Hasan Khan]. (ISSN 0258-0365). Aligarh Muslim University, Department of English.

Notes

Due to limited digitization of pre-2000s academic journals, exact publication details (e.g., volumes, pages) for many of Khan’s articles in The Aligarh Journal of English Studies are not publicly available online. Access AMU archives or HathiTrust for full texts.
Urdu works are primarily archived on Rekhta; English essays are referenced in secondary sources like obituaries and reviews.