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Mahmood Farooqui (b. 1972)

Historian and Urdu stage raconteur who reconstructed sixteenth-century Dastangoi oral epic performance in 2005 with Shamsur Rahman Faruqi.

Urdu Dastangoi revivalist Mahmood Farooqui

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Urdu Dastangoi revivalist Mahmood Farooqui
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Working from nineteenth-century Naval Kishore Press lithographs of the forty-six-volume Tilism-e-Hoshruba in Lucknow and New Delhi, Mahmood Farooqui revived the extinct acoustic stagecraft of Urdu Dastangoi—two white-clad dastangos seated on a masnad conjuring sorcerers,trickster Amr Ayyar, and courtly worlds solely through voice. 1

Training a nationwide cohort of contemporary Urdu storytellers, he received the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2010. 1

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Dastangoi Urdu Oral Epic Storytelling
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Dastangoi: Revival of the Lost Art of Urdu StorytellingSangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, 2011—
"Mahmood Farooqui (b. 1972)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/mahmood-farooqui · CC BY-SA 4.0.