Masud Hassan Rizvi

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| birth_date = 1893

| birth_place = Bahraich, North-Western Provinces, India

| death_date = 1975

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| occupation = Writer, scholar

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| known for = Urdu literature

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| awards = Padma Shri

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Adib Masud Hassan Rizavi (1893–1975) was an Indian author{{cite web | url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1147987 | title=Dawn | publisher=Dawn | date=1 December 2014 | accessdate=19 May 2015}} and a scholar of Urdu literature.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&dq=Masud+Hassan+Rizavi&pg=PA81 | title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | author=Amaresh Datta | year=1987 | pages=987 | isbn=9788126018031}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rXx2xNB_JzsC&dq=Masud+Hassan+Riza%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.278465%2Fpage%2Fn303+Who%27s+Who+Of+Indian+Writers+%3A+Sahitya+Academy%5D+vi&pg=PA6 | title=The Essence of Camphor | publisher=Katha | author=Naiyer Masud, Muhammad Umar Memon | year=1998 | pages=257 | isbn=9788185586823}} Born in 1893 in Bahraich in the North-Western Provinces of British India, he did his early college studies at the Canning College, Lucknow after which he secured a master's degree in Persian literature from Lucknow University. He started his career as a junior lecturer at the Lucknow University in 1927 and rose to become the head of the department of Urdu and Persian in 1930 from where he retired in 1954.{{cite web | url=http://lkouniv.ac.in/oldsite/dept_urdu.htm | title=Lucknow University | publisher=Lucknow University | date=2015 | accessdate=19 May 2015}}

Rizavi published his first book, Imtihan-i-Wafa in 1918 which was a translation of an Alfred Lord Tennyson work. Hamari Shayari, Lucknow ka Shahi Stage,{{cite book | title=Lucknow ka Shahi Stage | publisher=Kitab Nagar | author=Masood Hasan Razvi | year=1957 | pages=224 | oclc=20153767}} Lucknow ka Awami Stage,{{cite book | url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/lucknow-ka-awami-stage-amanat-aur-inder-sabha-syed-masood-hasan-rizavi-ebooks | title=Lucknow ka Awami Stage | publisher=Nizami Press | author=Masud Hassan Rizavi | year=1968}} Urdu Zaban aur Uska Rasm-i-kat, Mutafarriqat-e-Ghalib,{{cite book | url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/mutafarriqat-e-ghalib-syed-masood-hasan-rizavi-ebooks | title=Mutafarriqat-e-Ghalib | publisher=Hindustan Press | author=Masud Hassan Rizavi | year=1947}} Anisyat, Wajid Ali Shah, Madras-e-Rekhta and Azeezi Lucknowi{{cite book | url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/azeez-lucknowi-hayat-aur-karname-syed-masood-hasan-rizavi-ebooks | title=Azeezi Lucknowi | publisher=Masud Hassan Rizavi | author=Masud Hassan Rizavi | year=1984}} are some of his other notable publications, the last four books getting released after his death in 1975. His life and works have been documented in a book, Saiyyid Masud Hasan Rizavi adīb: hiyāt aur adabi khidmāt, written by Vasim Ārā and published in 1990.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ffBMQwAACAAJ | title=Saiyyid Masud Hasan Rizavi adīb: hiyāt aur adabi khidmāt | publisher=Anjuman Taraqi Urdu | author=Vasim Ara | year=1990 | pages=440}} Rizavi, whose son, Naiyer Masud, is also a known short story writer, was honoured by the Government of India in 1970 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |accessdate=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 October 2015 }}