Muhammad Din Fauq

{{Short description|Historian of Kashmir}}

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| honorific_prefix = Mujadid e Kashamara

| name = Muhammad Din Fauq
محمد دین فوق

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| other_names = Poet of the Kashmir

| birth_name = Muhammad Din Dar

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| birth_place = Sialkot

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| death_place = Lahore, Punjab Province (British India), British Indian Empire, now Punjab, Pakistan

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| notable_works = Tareekh- e Aqwaam e Kashmir, Tareekh e Aqwaam e Poonch, Tareekh e Aqwaam e Jammu, Mukammal Tareekh- e Kashmir

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| era = 20th-century poetry

| region = British Indian Empire

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| main_interests = Kashmiri poetry, history book author

| notable_ideas = Two-nation theory, Conception of Muslim Conference

| influences = Allama Iqbal, Dagh Dehlvi

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Muhammad Din Fauq was a historian of Kashmir. He was a pioneer of journalism in Jammu and Kashmir.{{cite web|url=http://kashmirdispatch.com/2012/07/05/mohammad-ud-din-fauq...first...of.../108557/ |title=Mohammad-ud-din Fauq: Remembering first journalist of Kashmir |publisher=KashmirDispatch |date=2012-07-05 |access-date=2016-09-15}}{{cite news|last=well known|first=Mu-nshi|title=munshi fauq awarded|url=http://nation.com.pk/lahore/14-Jul-2010/Munshi-Fauq-awarded|access-date=14 July 2010|newspaper=The Nation Archives, 2010|date=July 14, 2010}}

To espouse the cause of the Kashmiris as well as to extend solidarity, various organisations were formed before Partition of India. Prominent among them were the All India Muslim Kashmiri Conference and the All India Kashmir Committee. The former was established at Lahore in 1908 with Allama Iqbal and Muhammad Din Fauq as its prominent leaders.{{cite web|title=National Assembly of Pakistan |url=http://www.na.gov.pk/en/content.php?id=82|website=Pakistan National Assembly |access-date=9 September 2016 }}

He wrote extensively on the Valley's history, folklore and geography. He published a history of Kashmir in 1910. In 1936 Fauq published an exhaustive survey on the origins and histories of Kashmir's well known families and communities. The survey has been described as being of considerable interest from the anthropological point of view.{{cite book|last1=Bamzai|first1=P. N. K.|author-link=Prithivi Nath Kaul Bamzai |title=Culture and Political History of Kashmir|date=1994|publisher=M. D. Publications|isbn=9788185880310|page=39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1eMfzTBcXcYC&pg=PA39}}