13 Facts About Ibn-e-Safi

Ibn-e-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad, a fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.

The word Ibn-e-Safi is a Persian expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous.

Ibn-e-Safi first wrote from the British India of the 1940s, and later Pakistan after the independence of British India in 1947.

Ibn-e-Safi's novels were characterised by a blend of mystery, adventure, suspense, violence, romance and comedy, achieving massive popularity across a broad readership in South Asia.

Ibn-e-Safi's ancestors were Hindus of the Kayashta community, specialised in the fields of education and administration, who converted to Islam many generations ago.

Ibn-e-Safi received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Agra University.

Ibn-e-Safi studied at the University of Allahabad where he was class fellow of Professor Mohammad Uzair and one year senior to Mustafa Zaidi [1].

Ibn-e-Safi started his own company by the name 'Asrar Publications'.

Ibn-e-Safi started writing poetry in his childhood and soon earned critical acclaim in whole South-Asian community.

In 1955, Ibn-e-Safi started Imran Series, which gained as much fame and success as Jasoosi Dunya.

Ibn-e-Safi was particularly drawn to the Jasoosi Dunya and Imran Series detective novels.

Ibn-e-Safi used to write poems under the pen name of "Asrar Narvi".

Ibn-e-Safi wrote in various genres of Urdu poetry, such as Hamd, Na`at, Manqabat, Marsia, Ghazal, and Nazm.