Saliha Abid Hussain

{{Short description|Indian writer of Urdu literature}}

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Saliha Abid Hussain (1913 - 1988) was an Indian writer of Urdu literature,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HIISikCITAgC&q=Saliha+Abid+Hussain&pg=PA606 | title=Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: An Annotated Bibliography & Research Guide | publisher=BRILL | date=2015 | access-date=9 July 2015 | author=Tahera Aftab| isbn=978-9004158498 }} considered by many to be one of the prominent writers of modern Urdu novels and children's literature.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nH1HBxdA1UIC&q=Saliha+Abid+Hussain&pg=PA291 | title=Urdu-Hindi: An Artificial Divide | publisher=Algora Publishing | author=Abdul Jamil Khan | year=2006 | pages=400 | isbn=9780875864389}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1RsBgAAQBAJ&q=Saliha+Abid+Hussain&pg=PA1085 | title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature | publisher=Routledge | author=Peter Hunt | year=2004 | pages=1416 | isbn=9781134436842}} She is the author of works such as Azra,{{cite web | url=http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/cgi-bin/metainfo.cgi?&title1=Azra%20&author1=Saliha%20Abid%20Hussain&subject1=Literature&year=1968%20&language1=urdu&pages=511&barcode=99999990044413&author2=&identifier1=&publisher1=xxxx&contributor1=&vendor1=NONE&scanningcentre1=Banasthali%20University&scannerno1=&digitalrepublisher1=Digital%20Library%20Of%20India&digitalpublicationdate1=2011-04-00&numberedpages1=&unnumberedpages1=&rights1=OUT_OF_COPYRIGHT©rightowner1=©rightexpirydate1=&format1=%20&url=/data8/upload/0241/696 | title=Azra | date=1968 | access-date=9 July 2015}} Rekhta,{{cite web | url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/saliha-abid-hussain-no-ebooks | title=Rekhta | publisher=Quami Council Bara-e-Farogh-e-Urdu Zaban | date=2012 | access-date=9 July 2015}} Yadgaray hali{{cite web | url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12449920W/Yadgaray_hali | title=Yadgaray hali | publisher=Arsalan | access-date=9 July 2015}} Baat Cheet{{cite web | url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/223054265/Baat-Cheet-Saliha-Abid-Hussain#scribd | title=Baat Cheet | publisher=Hassaan Zia | date=2015 | access-date=9 July 2015}} and Jane Walon ki Yad Ati Hai.{{cite web | url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urdu/hali/majalis/11bib.html | title=Jane Walon ki Yad Ati Hai | publisher=Maktaba-e Jamia | date=1974 | access-date=9 July 2015}} The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1983.{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015}} Her life has been documented in a biography, Saliha Abid Hussain, written by Sughra Mehdi and published in 1993.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&q=Saliha+Abid+Hussain&pg=PA739 | title=Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | author=Kartik Chandra Dutt | year=1999 | pages=1490 | isbn=9788126008735}}

Her writing covered many subjects, including women's rights, and according to her niece Dr Sayeda Hameed, who curated the exhibition Pathbreakers: The 20th Century Muslim Women of India at the Bangalore International Centre in 2020, "She spoke out against Triple Talaq and other subjects fearlessly."{{cite news |last1=Madhukar |first1=Jayanthi |title=An informative exhibition on the 20th Century Muslim is underway, dispelling several myths |url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/an-informative-exhibition-on-the-20th-century-muslim-is-underway-in-the-city-dispelling-several-myths/articleshow/74566507.cms |access-date=11 July 2021 |work=Bangalore Mirror |date=March 11, 2020}}