Uxi mufti biography

Entering Mumtaz Muftee's home, I met Uxi Mufti, who has committed himself to preserving Pakistani folklore – a treasure trove nobody was ready to explore.

Uxi mufti family

Uxi recalls how his father sitting on a carpet, with a pencil in hand, would write his books. When he was over eighty years old, the elder Muftee would say, “I'm like a passenger waiting on the platform for my train, but my train is not arriving.

Maybe, my Allah wants me to write yet another book!” And he wrote Talash . After finishing the book, he died.

Uxi published Talash after his father's death. Nowadays Uxi has devoted himself to writing the sequel to it in English.

“It will be called ' Allah ' to integrate the concept of Allah with philosophy and science.”

Uxi did his MA Honors in Psychology from Government College, Lahore, and PhD in Philosophy in Sociological Thought from the Charles University, Institute of Philosophy, Prague, in 1969.

In 1970 Uxi returned after witnessing the Russians taking over Prague – soldie