Abul Kalam Qasmi (20 December 1950 – 8 July 2021) was an Indian scholar, literary critic, and a poet of the Urdu language who served as the dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Aligarh Muslim University.
Qasmi was an alumnus of the Darul Uloom Deoband, Jamia Millia Islamia and the Aligarh Muslim University.
[1] He received his primary education at Madrasa Qāsim al-Ulūm Hussainiya, and graduated in the dars-e-nizami from the Darul Uloom Deoband in 1967.
[6] Mujawir Husain Rizvi, who was a professor of Urdu literature at the University of Allahabad, would call him "Father of the Pen" (Abul Qalam), for his literary contributions.
[7] Qasmi was considered a major pillar of Urdu criticism following on from Gopi Chand Narang and Shamsur Rahman Faruqi.
[6] Tariq Mansoor expressed sorrow and termed his death a great loss to the literary fraternity of India.