Tabish Mehdi (3 July 1951 – 22 January 2025) was an Indian poet specialising in naʽat, a literary critic, journalist, and author who made contributions to Urdu literature.
Later, he worked as a teacher at Jamiatul Falah Arabic College, Bilariaganj, Azamgarh, from June 1986 to April 1990.
[15][16][17][18] From June 1991 to 3 July 2009, Mehdi worked as an editor at Markazi Maktaba Islami Publishers, New Delhi.
He was a founding member of Abul Kalam Azad Inter College (Pratapgarh) and Idara Adab-e-Islami Hind.
He was also a member of the Islamic Literary Society (India) and Darul Dawah Educational Foundation (Delhi).
[21][22] Mehdi wrote several works in poetry, criticism, and analytical writing,[23] including Abūlmujāhid Zāhid: fikr aur fan, Kankar bolte hen̲: shiʻrī majmūʻah, Muʻallim-i insāniyat ṣallalláhu ʻalaihi va sallam, Naqd-i g̲h̲azal, Rabāb Rashīdī: ek suk̲h̲an var piyārā sā, Shafīq Jaunpūrī, ek mut̤ālaʻah (2002), Ṣubḥ-i ṣādiq: ḥamd, naʻt, manqabat, Tasawwuf yeh hai!, T̤ūbá and Urdū tanqīd kā safar: Jāmiʻah Milliyah Islāmiyah ke tanāẓur men̲.