Aijaz Siddiqi

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Aijaz ({{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq| اعجاز }}}}) SiddiqiUrdu Authors: Date list corrected up to 31 May 2006- S.No. 141 – Aijaz siddiqi> maintained by National Council for Promotion of Urdu, Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development {{cite web|url=http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/urdu_wrld/u_auth/index_all.htm |title=National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language |accessdate=2012-08-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301184839/http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/urdu_wrld/u_auth/index_all.htm |archivedate=2012-03-01 }} (1911–1978) was an Urdu writer and poet. He was the son of the famous Urdu poet, Seemab Akbarabadi. He was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. After having founded Qasr-ul-Adab in 1923, Seemab Akbarabadi had in the year 1930 started publication of a literary journal in Urdu from Agra titled Shair; he was its first editor. A few years later i.e. in 1935, in order to concentrate on the other than more important activities of Qasr-ul- Adab, he had handed over the charge of this magazine to Aijaz Siddiqi who carrying forward the tradition of his father remained its editor till 1978 long after the publication of Shair was shifted from Agra to Mumbai in 1947Languages and literature https://books.google.com/books?id=CAQIAQAAIAAJ and Seemab Akbarabadi had in 1951 died in Karachi. Mahendra Nath, the Urdu short-story writer and younger brother of Krishan Chander had also joined him to compile and edit several special issues of Shair."Shair" 1969 618p. https://books.google.com/books?id=I_WWNAAACAAJ{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In his dress and appearance Aijaz resembled his father.{{cite web | title=Seemab Akbarabadi - Some impressions | first=Aditya | last=Soni | url=http://www.zimbio.com/Poets+and+Poetry/articles/75btXXMwepm/Seemab+Akbarabadi+impressions | archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120919145102/http://www.zimbio.com/Poets+and+Poetry/articles/75btXXMwepm/Seemab+Akbarabadi+impressions | archivedate=19 September 2012 | publisher=Zimbio | accessdate=30 April 2019 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} Presently there exist two collections of his poems – 1) Khwaabon ke masiha and 2) Karb e khud kalaami, both published in 1966.http://www.openlibrary.org/OL11294A/Aijaz_Siddiqi{{dead link|date=July 2016}}