Muztar Abbasi

{{Short description|Pakistani Muslim scholar}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Muztar Abbasi

| image = MuztarAbbasi.jpg

| imagesize = 200px

| alt = 1989 photo at Fazaia Inter College, Lower Topa

| caption = Abbasi in 1989

| pseudonym =

| birth_name = Muztar Abbasi

| birth_date = {{birth year|1931}}

| birth_place = Murree, British Raj

| death_date = {{death year and age|2004|1931}}

| death_place = Islamabad, Pakistan

| occupation = Scholar

| nationality = Pakistani

| citizenship = Pakistani

| education =

| alma_mater = Bahawalpur University, Punjab University.

| period = 1960-2004

| genre = Prose, poetry, autobiography.

| subject = Urdu, Esperanto

| movement = Esperanto Association

| notableworks = Quran translation in Esperanto, Urdu-Esperanto Dictionary, Seerat-Un-Nabi in Esperanto and 18 published books in Urdu and Esperanto.

}}

Muztar Abbasi (1931 – 26 February 2004) was a Punjabi Pakistani Muslim scholar and Vice Principal of Fazaia Inter College, Lower Topa, who belonged to the Dhund Abbasi tribe of Murree Hills in the Murree District. He was a pioneer of the Esperanto language in Pakistan and patron in chief of the Pakistan Esperanto Association (PakEsA). He translated the Quran into Esperanto and wrote a biography of Islamic prophet Muhammad and several other books in Esperanto and Urdu.{{cite book

|last=Pierce

|first=George

|title=Introducing Translational Studies

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=a-PEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115

|date=12 June 2018

|publisher=EDTECH

|isbn=978-1-83-947300-5

|page=115

}}