Niaz Fatehpuri (1884–1966) was the pen name of Niyaz Muhammed Khan,[1] a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and polemicist.
Niaz Fatehpuri was born in 1884 at Nayi Ghat, Barabanki district,[2] in what is now Uttar Pradesh during the British Raj.
[citation needed] Thereafter, he worked in different posts until 1921, when he started editing and publishing his famous monthly journal, Nigar, which served as a mirror to the literary scene in Uttar Pradesh till his migration to Pakistan in the early sixties.
[citation needed] Niaz Fatehpuri wrote on Urdu literature, on religion and on the many evils affecting the social fabric of India in his time.
[5] In 1974, Malik Ram included him in his award-winning book of essays Woh Surten Ilahi (The Immortals) on nine unforgettable giants in the Urdu literary world.